Ko Awatea International Excellence in Health Improvement Awards 2015

Improving Skin Cancer Education, Management and Patient Care Globally

New Zealand

Sharad Paul's busy Skin Surgery Clinic in Blockhouse Bay offers free skin cancer checks … … the number of patients he screens for skin cancer at no cost exceeds the number of people screened for skin cancer by the public system of the combined greater Auckland DHBs.An example of his significant innovation that made a difference is a single-point-of-entry skin lesion service in Waitemata DHB, which was to become a model in New Zealand campaigns for better, sooner, more convenient services and which gradually evolved into, or stimulated, regional services in different parts of the country

~ Mary-Anne Boyd, former Innovation Manager. Waitemata DHB

Reduced waiting times

Lowered Cost

AustraliaIn Australia and New Zealand, about 70-80% of all skin cancers are managed in primary care. … However, the lack of an academic unit meant that primary care practitioners had little access to research, ongoing professional and academic development...Our centre at Queensland is the only primary care skin cancer unit in the world. We are grateful for the contribution of Dr Paul both in setting up the academic unit and his ongoing commitment as Senior Lecturer~ Assoc professor Cliff Rosendahl, Department of Skin Cancer in Primary Care, University of Queensland

Increased diagnostic accuracy

World–leading Audits and Research

InternationalDr. Sharad Paul has developed an impressive reputation as a leader in the field of dermatology, dermato-oncology and skin cancer surgery, and is regarded as unique in the field of medicine ... I recently invited him to chair the surgical workshops at the World Dermoscopy Congress in Vienna ... Dr. Sharad Paul with a sense for “stories” understands the importance of narrative medicine in improving patient-physician communication. He is the Sigmund Freud and Arthur Schnitzler of our times." ~ Professor Harald Kittler, Head of Dermatology and Chair, World Congress of Dermoscopy and Skin Imaging, Vienna 2015