Neil Piller

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Professor Neil Piller is a lymphologist and the Team Leader of the Lymphoedema Assessment Clinic at Flinders Surgical Oncology. He is a professor at the Flinders University Medical Center in South Australia and co-author of The Lymphoedema Handbook: Causes, Effects and Management, 2002, (ISBN 0-85572-327-0).

Professor Piller specializes in clinical and experimental research on primary and secondary lympoedemas and oedemas, their assessment, treatment and management. He is a regular contributor to Australian radio and TV broadcasts on health-related issues. In 2002, he was featured on the Life Matters radio show on the topic, "How long should it take to die?". [1]

A frequent presenter and speaker in Europe, the UK, New Zealand, Australia and Asia, Professor Piller has published and presented over 300 articles including in Lymphology, the New England Journal of Medicine, Australian Doctor and Medicine Today. He also belongs to the Australasian Lymphology Association and the Lymphoedema Association of Australia and is the Patron of the Lymphoedema Support Group of South Australia.

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• Transcript of 2001 radio interview on Lymphoedema