Dr Robert Rawson is a medical graduate of the Australian National University and commenced his training in Pathology in 2011. He was based primarily at Prince of Wales Hospital in Sydney with rotations to Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and St George Hospital, before completing his Fellowship with the Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia in 2016. He was appointed the Cameron Pathology Fellow at the Melanoma Institute of Australia and Royal Prince Alfred Hospital for 2016. He then took up a position as staff specialist at Royal Darwin Hospital before returning to Royal Prince Alfred in 2018.

He is currently a PhD student, with primary research interests in dermatopathology particularly melanocytic pathology with additional intereests in gynaecological pathology. He is involved in numerous research collaborations within the Cancer Translational Research Group at the University of Sydney and was the winner of the Premier’s Award for Outstanding Cancer Research in 2016. He is also committed to the medical education of pathology registrars and medical students.