How to prevent and detect cancer

In this important webinar, highly regarded Consultant General Surgeon and cancer surgeon Professor Rupert Hodder takes a practical look at cancer, focusing on ways to help you prevent it or detect it early.

Hosted by multi-award-winning health, wellness and recovery provider Vivo by MLC Life Insurance, this webinar will cover the following:
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About our expert

Professor Rupert Hodder, MBChB, BSC, MD, FRCS, FRACS, is a highly regarded Consultant General Surgeon, cancer surgeon, researcher and award-winning educator.

As a surgeon, Professor Hodder specialises in gastrointestinal surgery, surgery for sarcomas (cancers developing in bones and soft tissues) and inflammatory bowel disease. He is actively involved in research, extensively published in peer-reviewed scientific journals, and presented across Australia and worldwide.

Professor Hodder graduated in medicine at the University of Liverpool in the UK and underwent advanced training in general surgery. He has a Medical Research Degree through the NHS and has completed training in coloproctology, making him a dual Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons England.

After arriving in Australia, he gained recognition as a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. He now works as a Consultant General Surgeon and member of the Medical Executive Committee at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital in Perth, a position he’s held since 2007. He also started a private practice surgical group at Hollywood Hospital in 2010, where he ran the group for ten years.

A committed educator, Professor Hodder was awarded the EF Haywood Award for Best Clinical Teacher of the Year at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital in 2020. He has held several academic roles at Western Australia’s Notre Dame and Curtin Universities and is currently an adjunct professor and an associate clinical professor at Curtin University.