Doctor Joo-Shik Shin

• Biography
• Areas of Research / Teaching Expertise
• Grants / Current Projects
• Awards and Recognition
• Selected Publications
• Professional Activities
• Contact Details

Biography

Joo is the Senior Lecturer in Pathology at the School of Medicine UWS and a Clinical Academic Pathologist at the Department of Anatomical Pathology in Liverpool Hospital. He began his career at UWS in 2008 as a Lecturer in Pathology and Anatomical Pathology Registrar/Trainee at Liverpool Hospital. Joo became a Senior Lecturer in February 2011.

He completed his Pathology training and obtained Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Pathologists (RCPA) in late 2009. Joo combined this training with part-time PhD candidature at the University of Sydney, the thesis of which he has submitted in April 2011. Joo is originally a medical graduate of the University of Queensland, relocating to Sydney to commence his Pathology training at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital prior to moving to Liverpool.

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Areas of Research / Teaching Expertise

• General and Systemic Pathology
• Cancer Radiotherapy Response

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Grants / Current Projects

1. Predictive markers of radiotherapy response in rectal cancers (current) - Title of submitted PhD thesis, University of Sydney

2. Assessment of the prognostic value of tumour regression grading in rectal cancer patients after preoperative chemoradiotherapy (2010) - Liverpool and Bankstown Hospitals

3. Assembly of colorectal cancer tissue microarray (2008-9) - Liverpool and Bankstown Hospitals

4. Cell differentiation antibody microarray analysis in solid human tumours (2008 - 2009) - Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and University of Sydney

5. Reliability and validity of tumour regression grading in colorectal cancer following chemoradiotherapy (2008) - Royal Prince Alfred Hospital

6. Markers of cellular senescence in the assessment of prognosis in prostate carcinoma (current) - associate supervision of PhD candidature at UWS

7. Computer based processes for tumour banking (current) - associate supervision of MSc candidate at UWS

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Awards and Recognition

2011: Submitted thesis for Doctor of Philosophy, University of Sydney

2009: Fellowship of the Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia (FRCPA)

2009: Finalist in the RCPA Board of Education Trainee Poster Prize Category, Pathology Update

2008: Poster Prize in Registrar Category – Commendation, 33rd Annual Meeting of the Australasian Division of the International Academy of Pathology

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Selected Publications

1. Shin J-S, Jalaludin B, Hong A, Solomon MJ, Lee CS. Histopathological regression grading versus staging of rectal cancer following radiotherapy. Pathology 2011; 43(1): 24-30.
   
2. Sharma S, Shin J-S, Grimshaw M, Clark R, Lee CS. The senescence pathway in prostatic carcinogenesis. Pathology 2010; 42(6): 507-511
   
3. Zhou J, Belov. L, Huang PY, Shin J-S, Solomon MJ, Chapuis PH, Bokey L, Chan C, Clarke C, Clarke SJ and Christopherson RI. Surface antigen profiling of colorectal cancer using antibody microarrays with fluorescence multiplexing. Journal of Immunological Methods 2010; DOI 10.1016/j.jim.2010.01.015
   
4. Shin J-S, Zhou J, Belov L, Zhang M, Hong A, Solomon MJ, Christopherson RI, Lee CS. Comparison of radiosensitivity and cell membrane proteome between microsatellite stable and unstable colorectal cancers – an in vitro study with a
   122 antibody microarray. Poster presentation at the RCPA Pathology Update, 2009
   
5. Shin J-S, Foo T, Hong A, Zhang M, Lum T, Solomon MJ, Lujic S, Lee CS. Radiotherapy response and telomerase expression (in vivo and in vitro) in colorectal cancer.
   Poster presentation at the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Australasian Division of the International Academy of Pathology, 2008
   
6. Shin J-S, Spillane A, Wills E, Cooper W. Pecoma of the retroperitoneum. Pathology 2008; 40(1): 93-5.
   
7. Shin J-S, Hong A, Solomon MJ, Lee CS. The role of telomeres and telomerase in the pathology of human cancer and aging. Pathology 2006; 38(2): 103-13.
   
8. Shin J-S, Foo T, Cordoba S, Bishop GA, Stewart P. Establishment of an assay for quantitative RT-PCR of human telomerase reverse transcriptase (hTERT) gene expression.
   Poster presentation at the 10th Asian Pacific Congress of Clinical Biochemistry, 2004

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Professional Activities

Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia
Member of the International Academy of Pathologists

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