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DISTINCTIONS, POSTGRADUATE FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS

2007	TUANZ (Telecommunications Association of New Zealand Award) award for Telecommunications in Health; National award for excellence in Health Telecommunications innovation Chairman and leader technical innovation for New Zealand TelePaediatric Service. Development of a national telemedicine network for enhance clinical care, medical education and professional development
2007	IDG Computerworld Award for Excellence for IT in Health Chair and project leader for the National Paediatric Oncology Steering Group Late Effects Assessment Programme (LEAP) that developed LEAP-IT, a national online clinical tool for the long term managed care of children and young people who survive cancer.
2007	Cancer Research UK Visiting Lectureship in Paediatric Oncology:Guest Lecturer, 5th Advanced Paediatric Oncology Course (APOC), University of Edinburgh School of Medicine, Edinburgh June 2007
2006	IDG Computerworld Award for Excellence for IT in Health Project Leader New Zealand TelePaediatrics and Children’s Haematology Oncology Centre Christchurch development of the Hospital-to-Home (H2H) telemedicine solution for the support of children receiving palliative care at home
2005	Cancer Research UK Visiting Lectureship in Paediatric Oncology:Guest Lecturer, 4th Advanced Paediatric Oncology Course (APOC), University of Edinburgh School of Medicine, Edinburgh April 2005
2004	Winner Health Information New Zealand (HINZ) Award for Innovative Health technology jointly with Telecom New Zealand for NZ TelePaediatrics Telemedicine network	Health and Disability Innovation Award 2004
1994	Cancer Society of New Zealand Repatriation Research Fellowship (Inaugural award of Air New Zealand/Cancer Society of New Zealand, Cancer Repatriation Fellowship)
1993	Queensland Cancer Fund Travelling Fellowship in Cancer
1992	Roche Biotherapy Research Fellowship in Haematology and Oncology (Inaugural award of $20,000 overseas travelling fellowship)
1992	Queensland Cancer Fund Research Fellowship in Paediatric Oncology

REFEREED JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

Sullivan, M. (2008) Banking on stem cells: Banking on Cord blood stem cells Nature Reviews Cancer (Science and Society Commissioned Review, in press)

Morison, M., Morris, C., Sullivan, M., Eosinphilic B-precursor Acute Lymphoblsatic Leukaemia. British Journal of Haematology (2008 in press)

Grant, C., Pinnock, R., Hayden, S., Sullivan, M., Asher, I., (2008)
Living in the country and studying in the City. The art of passing exams and remaining sane. Health Informatics New Zealand, J Paediatrics and Child Health, (in press)

Ch’ng, S., Low, I., Ng, D., Brasch, H., Sullivan, M., Davis, P., Tan, S. T., (2008) Epidermal growth factor receptor, a novel biomarker for aggressive head and neck cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma. Human Pathology 39 344-349

Parkash Mandhan, Qi Bao Quan, Michael Sullivan and Spencer Beasley (2007)
The contribution of Sonic Hedgehog cascade in the development of the enteric nervous system in fetal rats with anorectal malformations, Paediatric Surgery International 42 2080-2085

Espiner, E.A., Prickett, T.C., Yandle, T.G., Barrell, G.K., Welby, M., Sullivan, M.J., Darlow, B.A. (2007) ABCs of Natriuretic Peptides: Growth. Hormone Research 67 (suppl 1) 81-90

Arsic, D., Beasley, S. W., Sullivan, M. J., (2007) A switched on Sonic Hedgehog: a gene whose activity extends beyond fetal development – to oncogenesis. J Paediatrics and Child Health

Ch’ng, S., Sullivan, M., Yuan, L., Davis, P., Tan, S. T., (2006) Mast cells dysregulate apoptotic and cell cycle genes in mucosal squamous cell carcinoma. Cancer Cell International 6 28-35

Mandhan, P., Boa Quan, Q., Beasley, S., Sullivan, M., (2006) Sonic hedgehog, BMP4 and Hox genes in the development of anorectal malformations in ETU-exposed fetal rats, Journal of Pediatric Surgery 41, (12) 2041-45

Mandhan, P., Boa Quan, Q., Keenan, J., Ismail, J., Beasley, S., Sullivan, M., (2006) Counterstaining improves visualization of the myenteric plexus in immunolabelled whole-mount preparations, Journal of Fluorscence 16 (5) 655-8

Sies, C.W., Florkowski, C.M., Sullivan, M., Mackay, R., George, P.M., (2006) Urinary VMA, dopamine and the likelihood of neuroblastoma: a preferred way of reporting laboratory results. Annals of Clinical Biochemistry

Mandhan, P., Beasley, S., Roake, J., Hale, T., Ellemrs, L., Sullivan, M., (2006) Sonic Hedgehog expression in the development of hindgut in ETU-exposed fetal rats, Paediatric Surgery International, 22, 1, 31-36

Kasabov, N., Goh, L., Sullivan, M., (2005) Integrated prognostic profiles: combining clinical and gene expression information through evolving connectionist approach. Information processing and Living Systems, Chapter 10,
Bajic, V., and Wee, T., editors, Imperial College Press (see below)

Sullivan, M., Browett, P., Patton, N., (2005) Private umbilical cord blood banking: a biological insurance of dubious future benefit. New Zealand Medical Journal, 118, 1208, 1-6

Jankovic, M., Spinetta, J. J., Martins, A. G., Pession, A., Sullivan, M., D'Angio, G. J., Eden, T.Ben Arush, M. W., X, S., Punkko, L. R., Epelman, C., Masera, G. (2005) Non-conventional therapies in childhood cancer: guidelines for distinguishing non-harmful from harmful therapies: a report of the SIOP Working Committee on Psychosocial Issues in Pediatric Oncology, Pediatric Blood Cancer, 42, 106-108

Futschik, M.E., Sullivan, M., Reeve, A., and Kasabov, N., (2003). Modular decision system and information integration for cancer outcome prediction. Currents in Computational Molecular Biology 2003, R. Sprang, P. Bézat and M. Vingron (eds.), RECOMB 2003, Berlin, Germany.

Futschik, M., Sullivan, M., Reeve, A., Kasabov, N., (2003) Prediction of clinical behaviour and treatment for cancers, Applied Bioinformatics: 2 (3 Suppl) S53-S58

Holland, K., Sullivan, M., (2002) Cancer Genomics: The Chips Are On The Table. New Zealand Medical Journal 115, 1163

Futschik, M., Jeffs, A., Pattison, S., Kasabov, N., Sullivan, M., Merrie, A., Reeve, A., (2002) Gene, Expression Profiling of Metastatic and Nonmetastatic Colorectal Cancer Cell Lines, Genome Letters, 1, 26-34

Kerr, N.J., Fukuzawa, R., Reeve, A.E., Sullivan, M.J., (2002) Beckwith-Wiedemann Syndrome, Pancreatoblastoma, and the Wnt Signaling pathway, American Journal of Pathology, 160, 1541-2;

Kerr, N. J., Chun, Y-H., Yun, K., Heathcott, R., Beasley, S., Reeve, A. E., and Sullivan, M.J., (2002) Pancreatoblastoma demonstrate LOH at 11p15.5 and IGF2 over expression: Medical and Pediatric Oncology, 39 52-54

Fukuzawa, R., Sato, S., Sullivan, M. J., Nishimura, G., Hasegawa, T., Matsuo, N., (2002) An autopsy case of Microcephalic Osteodysplastic Primordial Dwarfism Type II, American Journal of Medical Genetics 113 93-96

Sullivan M.J., Taniguchi, T., Jhee A., Kerr, N., Reeve, A.E. , (1999) Relaxation of IGF2 imprinting is associated with specific changes in DNA methylation, Oncogene, 18, 7527-7534

Eccles M.R., Bailey R. R., Abbott G.D., Sullivan M.J., (1996) Unraveling the genetics of vesicoureteric reflux: a common familial disorder, Human Molecular Genetics, 5, 1425-1429 (Impact Factor 7.8)

Eccles M.R., Bailey R. R., Abbott G.D., Sullivan M.J., (1996) Unraveling the genetics of vesicoureteric reflux: a common familial disorder, Human Molecular Genetics, 5, 1425

Taniguchi, T., Sullivan, M., Ogawa, O., Reeve, A. (1995) Epigenetic changes encompassing the IGF2/H19 locus associated with relaxation of IGF2 imprinting and silencing of the H19 gene in Wilms tumour, Proceedings of the National Academy Science (USA) 92 2159-2163 (co-first author) (Impact Factor 10.4)

Sanyanusin, P., Schimmenti, L.A., McNoe, L.A., Ward, T.A., Pierpont, M.E., Sullivan, M.J., Dobyns, W.B., Eccles, M.R., (1995) Mutation of the Pax 2 gene in a family with optic nerve colobomas, renal anomalies and vesicoureteral reflux. Nature Genetics 9 1995 358-363

Taniguchi, T, Schofield, A.E., Scarlett, J., Morrison, I.M., Sullivan M.J., Reeve, A., (1995) Altered specificity of IGF2 promoter imprinting during fetal development and onset of Wilms Tumour. Oncogene, 11, 751-756

Sanyanusin, P., McNoe L.A., Sullivan, M.J., Eccles M.R., (1995) Mutation in the Pax 2 gene in a family with renal coloboma syndrome, Human Molecular Genetics, 4 2183-2184

Taniguchi, T., Sullivan, M., Ogawa, O., Reeve, A. (1995) Epigenetic changes encompassing the IGF2/H19 locus associated with relaxation of IGF2 imprinting and silencing of the H19 gene in Wilms tumour, Proceedings of the National Academy Science (USA) 92 2159-2163 (co-first author)

Smith P. J., Sullivan, M, J., Algar, E., Shapiro, F., (1994) Analysis of Paediatric tumour types associated with hemihyperplasia in childhood, J. Paediatrics and Child Health, 30 515-517

Sullivan, M. J., Robinson, B., Abbott, G. D. (1992) Antiemesis for Chemotherapy Induced Vomiting in Childhood Malignancy. New Zealand Medical Journal, 105, 369-71

Sullivan M J, Myles T, George P., DNA analysis using the Polymerase Chain Reaction in Families of Children with Cystic Fibrosis. (1990) New Zealand Medical Journal, 103, 216-217

Sullivan, M. J., Taylor, B. J., Broadbent, R., Yun, K., Lovell-Smith, M., Donald, R.A. (1988) The use of the Somatostatin analogue SMS 201 995 in the short term management of Neonatal Hyperinsulinism (Nesedioblastosis), J. Paediatrics and Child Health, 24, 375-375

BOOKS

Gale Encyclopedia of Science 3rd Ed
Lerner, K.L, and Lerner, B. W. (editors)
Thomson/Gale publishing 2003; ISBN 0787675547
Academic Advisor and Contributor to 3rd edition

World of Genetics
Lerner, K. L., and Wilmoth Lerner, B. editors
Gale/Thomson publishing 2001; ISBN 0787649589
Editorial Board and editorial advisor and contributor to 1st edition

BOOK CHAPTERS AND SECTIONS

Kasabov, N., Goh, L., Sullivan, M., (2005) Integrated prognostic profiles: combining clinical and gene expression information through evolving connectionist approach. Information processing and Living Systems, Chapter 10,
Bajic, V., and Wee, T., editors, Imperial College Press

Sullivan, M. J. (2003) Genomic Imprinting (annotation)
Gale Encyclopedia of Science 3rd Ed, Lerner, K.L, and Lerner, B. W. (editors)
Thomson/Gale; ISBN 0787675547

Sullivan, M. J. (2003) DNA methylation and epigenetics (annotation)
Gale Encyclopedia of Science 3rd Ed, Lerner, K.L, and Lerner, B. W. (editors)
Thomson/Gale; ISBN 0787675547

Sullivan, M. J., (2001) Cancer Genetics (commissioned review)
World of Genetics, Lerner, K. L., and Wilmoth-Lerner, B. (editors),
Thomson/Gale; ISBN 0787649589

PATENTS

N.K. Kasabov, M.E. Futschik, M.J. Sullivan and A.E. Reeve (2005). Method and a medical decision support system utilising gene expression and clinical information, U.S. Patent, No. 60/403756

M.E. Futschik, N.K. Kasabov, M.J. Sullivan and A.E. Reeve (2002). Combining clinical and microarray-based prognostic models for improved DLBCL outcome prediction, U.S. Provisional Patent Application, No. 60/403808

N.K. Kasabov, M.E. Futschik, M.J. Sullivan and A.E. Reeve (2002). Method and a medical decision support system utilising gene expression and clinical information, U.S. Provisional Patent Application, No. 60/403756

N.K. Kasabov, M.E. Futschik, M.J. Sullivan and A.E. Reeve (2002). Modular decision systems for disease outcome prediction, U.S. Provisional Patent Application, No. 60/403754

A.E. Reeve, M.E. Futschik, M.J. Sullivan, N.K. Kasabov and P.J. Guilford (2002), Medical applications of adaptive learning systems, New Zealand Patent application, No. 517817

Invited Lectures, Guest Lectures and Presentations

2008

Invited Presentation:
Long term effects of cancer in children
Royal Australasian College of Ophthalmology Annual Scientific Meeting
M J Sullivan Christchurch (May 2008)

Invited presentation:
Biomarkers for risk stratification of Hepatoblastoma
International Conference Hepatobalstoma,
M J Sullivan, Paris (March 2008)

2007

Poster Presentation:
Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome and Hepatoblastoma, outcome from SIOPEL clinical trials International Paediatric Oncology Society 40th annual meeting
M J Sullivan, Mumbai (October 2007)

Invited Presentation: LEAP’ing from the maze: a national Late Effects Assessment Programme. National Child Cancer Foundation Conference
M J Sullivan Auckland (June 2007)

Guest Lectures: 5th Advanced Paediatric Oncology Course (APOC)
1. Cancer Genes and all that
2. Integrating biology into clinical care of cancer in children
3. Paediatric Oncology in Developing Countries: the Pacific Experience
M J Sullivan Edinburgh (June 2007)

Invited Presentation LEAP: a national Late Effects Assessment Programme. On behalf of the national POSG Late Effects Workstream
National Paediatric Oncology Educational Update
M J Sullivan Auckland (May 2007)

Invited Keynote Lecture; epigenetics in cancer and development
National Rett Syndrome Association
M J Sullivan Rotorua (April 2007)

Invited Presentation:
Sonic Hedgehog inhibition induces Caspase related apoptosis in Hepatoblastoma
First Intercontinental meeting Childhood Liver Tumours, G’dansk
Sullivan M.J., Arsic, D., Poland (March 2007)

Invited Presentation: Sullivan M.J., Childs .M., Capra, M., Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome and Hepatoblastoma: outcome of SIOPEL clinical trials.
First Intercontinental meeting Childhood Liver Tumours, G’dansk
Sullivan M.J., Childs .M., Capra, M., Poland (March 2007)

2006

Invited Presentation: Hayden, S., Sullivan, M. J., Hospital to Home telemedicine for Paediatric Palliative Care
Successes and Failures of Telemedicine, Brisbane (July 2006)

Invited Panelist: Ethics and Research on Tissues
New Zealand Clinical Research Conference,
M J Sullivan Auckland (May 2006)

Invited Presentation: Ethics of Research in Children
7th Medicine and Law Conference,
M J Sullivan Wellington (May 2006)

Invited Presentation: A strategy to identify prognostic Biomarkers for Hepatoblastoma, International Workshop, Biology and Genetics of Hepatoblastoma, Amsterdam, (March 2006)

2005

Invited Lecture: Alternative Therapy for Cancer; Parental Choices and Professional Obligations, University of the Third Age, University of Canterbury, (October 2005)

Case presentation: Relapsed Choroid Plexus Papilloma, International Paediatric Oncology Society Annual Scientific meeting Vancouver (Sept 2005)

Invited presentation: Biological Studies in Hepatoblastoma, Annual Scientific meeting International Paediatric Oncology Society Vancouver (Sept 2005)

Plenary presentation: Late Effects Assessment Programme and Survivorship in Child and Adolescent Cancer, National Psycho-Oncology Conference, (August 2005)

Plenary presentation: Late Effects Assessment Programme and Survivorship in Child and Adolescent Cancer, National Health Professionals Update in Paediatric Oncology, Wellington (June 2005)

Plenary presentation: Long term Effects of Caner in Children, National Child Cancer Foundation Conference, Wellington, (June 2005)

Invited presentation: Molecular Biology of Hepatocellular Carcinoma,
4th Berne International Workshop on Hepatocellular Carcinoma, Berne (2005) (Session Chair)

Guest Lecturer: Cancer Research UK Visiting Lectureship: Advanced Paediatric Oncology Course, Edinburgh, (April 2005)

Lectures and presentations; Molecular analysis of cancer in children; Rare cancers in children; When parents refuse treatment for children with cancer: PhD or Not PhD Career options in Paediatric Oncology

2004

Invited lecture: Fertility Preservation in Children and Adolescents with Cancer, National Workshop on Fertility Preservation, RACOG Christchurch (August 2004)

Invited lecture: Development and Cancer, New Zealand Organisation for Rare Disorders Conference, (May 2004)

Invited lecture: Developmental Genetics of Hepatoblastoma and Pancreatoblastoma, Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh, (March 2004)

Invited presentation: Biologic Studies of Hepatoblastoma and Pancreatoblastoma, SIOPEL annual meeting, Edinburgh, (March 2004)

Invited lecture: Microarray Gene Expression Analysis in Solid Tumours, Department of Paediatric Surgery, Paediatric Haematology Oncology Centre, Padua, Italy (March 2004)

2003

Invited presentation and panel discussion: Rights of the child and responsibilities of parents for treatment of children with life threatening conditions. 4th Annual Medicine and Law Conference, Wellington (May 2003)

Guest Public Lecture: Human Genome Project: Basic and Clinical Research, Royal Society of New Zealand, Winter Lecture Series, (August, 2003)

2002

Invited paper presentation: Outcome of Court ordered intervention in cases of parental treatment Refusal International Paediatric Oncology Society, Porto, Portugal, (September, 2002)

2001

Invited Lecture: Parental Refusal for life saving cancer therapy of children
Public Lecture Series, Ethics and Health, South Auckland Clinical School of Medicine (May, 2001)

2000

Invited lecture: The Human Genome Project and Molecular Medicine
First national meeting of the New Zealand Organisation for Rare Disorders, (September, 2000)

Invited presentation: New Genetic Technology and Cancer Biology,
Australian and New Zealand Children’s Cancer Study Group, Auckland, (June 2000)

Invited paper presentation: DNA methylation and cancer
New Zealand Society of Oncology, (May 2000)

Invited presentation: New Technology in Molecular Medicine
Haematology Society Meeting, Christchurch, (April 2000)

1999

Invited lecture: Bone Marrow transplant symposium,
20th anniversary symposium South Island Bone Marrow Transplant Unit, Christchurch School of Medicine (Sept 1999)

Invited presentation: The Human Genome Project and Molecular Medicine
Pan Pacific Congress Medical Laboratory Technology, Christchurch (August 1999)

Invited presentation: Molecular Genetics of Solid tumours
" Translational Research a Clash of Culture", New Zealand Society of Oncology Dunedin (1999)

1998

Invited lecture: Genomic Imprinting in Wilm’s Tumour,
Cleveland Clinic Cancer Biology meeting, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, (October 1998)

Invited research paper: DNA methylation and Genomic Imprinting
International Symposium on Genomic Imprinting and Environmental Disease Susceptibility, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, Duke University, North Carolina (October 1998)

Invited lecture: Molecular Pathogenesis of Cancer
ANZCCSG annual scientific meeting Brisbane (June 1998)

1997

Invited presentation: The genetics of Familial Cancer Syndromes; Li-Fraumeni syndrome, Third Australasian Familial Cancer Meeting Canberra, (June 1997)

Keynote Lecture:" Who owns my genes"?
" Implications of the Human Genome Program", Medical and ethical issues in a post genome era, Royal Society of New Zealand, Winter Lecture Series Dunedin, (June 1997)

1996

Invited lectures: Cancer and Cancer Genetics
Scicon; National conference for Science teachers, (Dunedin, June 1996)

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