Nada Hamad

A/Prof Nada Hamad is a senior staff specialist bone marrow transplant, cellular therapies, clinical and laboratory haematologist at St Vincent’s hospital in Sydney, where she is also director of the haematology clinical trials unit. She is President of Australia and New Zealand Transplant and Cellular Therapies and chairs a number of national and international committees in the field of transplantation and cellular therapies. She studied Medicine at the University of Sydney and completed her Haematology training in Sydney. 

Prior to her career in medicine, she completed a Bachelor of Science and Master of Science in Forensics, working in this field for a short period of time. She completed two post-graduate fellowships in BMT and lymphoma at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre in Toronto Canada through the University of Toronto. She is an active clinical trialist and researcher. A/Prof Hamad is an intersectional feminist with an academic interest in gender equity, diversity and inclusion in medicine (EDI). She is the deputy co-chair of the EDI in Medicine committee at the University of New South Wales in Australia the EDI lead for the Lancet Haematology amongst a number of other EDI committee leadership positions and memberships.