The Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne
Parkville, Victoria, Australia
Professor David D. Eisenstat, MD, MA, FRCPC, FRACP
David Eisenstat is a paediatric haematologist-oncologist, neuro-oncologist and developmental biologist who received clinical and basic science research training at the University of Toronto, The Hospital for Sick Children (Toronto), University of California, San Francisco's (UCSF) Laboratories of Molecular Neuro-Oncology and Developmental Neurobiology, and the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center (Houston). From 1999-2011, David was a Senior Investigator at the Manitoba Institute of Cell Biology, CancerCare Manitoba/University of Manitoba (Winnipeg), Director of Paediatric and Adult Neuro-Oncology and Program Director, Advanced Degrees in Medicine at the medical school. From 2011-2020, he was the inaugural Kids with Cancer Society Chair in Pediatric Oncology at the University of Alberta (Edmonton), founding Co-Director of the Cancer Research Institute of Northern Alberta (2014-2017) and Academic Chair and Professor, Dept. Oncology (2017-2020). He joined The Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne as Director, Children's Cancer Centre in November 2020, is Group Leader, Neuro-Oncology, and Lead, Cancer Flagship at the Murdoch Children's Research Institute and holds academic appointments in the Departments of Paediatrics at both the University of Melbourne and Monash University. David is also Co-Lead of the Victorian Paediatric Cancer Consortium. His research program is focused on the neurodevelopmental origins of paediatric brain tumours.
