Associate Professor Glen Kennedy

Executive Director, Cancer Care Services, RBWH

Associate Professor Glen Kennedy is a haematologist who specialises in the treatment of malignant haematological disorders including bone marrow / stem cell transplantation.

A/Prof Kennedy began his specialty training in combined clinical haematology and haematology pathology in 1999, and was admitted to the Royal Australasian College of Physicians in late 2002 and the Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia in early 2003.

In 2003 A/Prof Kennedy undertook a Clinical Fellowship at the Peter McCallum Cancer Institute in Melbourne, Victoria, in areas of malignant and transplant haematology. To date, A/Prof Kennedy has authored or co-authored over 90 peer reviewed publications, over 150 abstracts at national and international meetings, and developed and managed several local investigator-initiated studies in haematology and bone marrow transplantation.

In late 2003 A/Prof Kennedy returned to the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital and was appointed Deputy Director of the Department of Haematology in 2007. In 2004 he developed regional services in haematology at the Rockhampton Hospital and gained his academic title via the University of Queensland School of Medicine in 2010. A/Prof Kennedy has also supervised 3 higher research degree students, and is the current co-chair of the Queensland State-wide Cancer Clinical Network.