Georgina Long

Georgina Venetia Long AO FRACP is Co-Medical Director of the Melanoma Institute Australia (MIA), and Chair of Melanoma Medical Oncology and Translational Research at MIA and Royal North Shore Hospital, The University of Sydney.

Long is the first woman and the first Australian to be president of the world’s largest association of melanoma researchers and scientists, the US-based Society for Melanoma Research. She has authored over 300 publications in melanoma clinical and translational research, including papers in the New England Journal of Medicine and The Lancet, and has presented at hundreds of international conferences. Long has also been recognised as one of the 100 Influential Women in Oncology by OncoDaily.

She became 2024 Australian of the Year alongside Co-Medical Director Professor Richard Scolyer.

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