Home About company history achievements our team Products Research Markets Contact News	Dorothy M. K. Keefe, M.D., MBBS, FRACP - Dr. Keefe is Clinical Director of the Royal Adelaide Hospital Cancer Centre, and The Cancer Council SA Professor of Cancer Medicine at the University of Adelaide.  She is Head of the Mucositis Research Group in the Hanson Institute, and Chairman of the Mucositis Study Group of the Multinational Association for Supportive Care in Cancer (MASCC). Dr. Keefe graduated in Medicine (MBBS) from the University of London in 1986 and became a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (FRACP) in 1996, and received her Doctorate of Medicine from the University of Adelaide in 1999, for a thesis entitled ‘The effect of cytotoxic chemotherapy on the mucosa of the small intestine’. Dr Keefe’s research interests include mucositis in its broadest sense, covering pathobiology, epidemiology, prevention and treatment. She has lead the development of evidence based guidelines for the management of mucositis through MASCC, as well as co-chairing an international, multi-centre study investigating burden of illness and cost of care for patients with mucositis. Dr Keefe has authored over 60 peer-reviewed research publications, the majority on mucositis. She serves on the Editorial Boards of the Asia-Pacific Journal of Clinical Oncology, and several supportive care journals, including Current Opinions in Supportive and Palliative Care.