Digestive Health Network
Professor John Olynyk
Professor John Olynyk is a Gastroenterologist and Hepatologist based in the University of WA School of Medicine and Pharmacology at Fremantle Hospital. He has been in his current position since April 1994. He has established major research programs in the broad areas of colorectal cancer screening, pathogenesis of Hereditary Haemochromatosis and the role of hepatic stem cells in the pathogenesis of liver cancer.
Over the last seven years John has, with various collaborators, attracted $5.4m in research funding. This includes funding from the NH&MRC, the Cancer Foundation of Western Australia, and the NIH. He has also contributed to development of patents and commercialisation of “Ferriscan” (a TGA, FDA and CE-mark approved technology for measurement of iron status) in Australia and overseas.
John is the organiser, in conjunction with Professor Bruce Bacon from St Louis University USA, of the single topic conference on Haemochromatosis run by the American Association Study of Liver Diseases in September 2007.
He is a member of the Western Australian liver transplant program and is an active transplant Hepatologist. He provides general Gastroenterological services to Fremantle Hospital and teaches medical students. In 2005 he was appointed Deputy Director for the Western Australian Institute of Medical Research based at Fremantle Hospital.
Since 1999 John has published (or had accepted for publication) 75 papers including papers in high impact journals such as The New England Journal of Medicine, PNAS, Gastroenterology, Blood, Hepatology, Gut, Bioessays and Journal of Hepatology.