Professor Alex Pitman graduated from The University of Melbourne School of Medicine in 1992. He trained in radiology at The Royal Melbourne Hospital and in Positron Emission Tomography (PET) and nuclear medicine at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre and the Alfred Hospital.
Dr Pitman was appointed staff specialist in Diagnostic Imaging at Peter McCallum Cancer Centre and a physician in Nuclear Medicine at The Royal Melbourne Hospital in 2001. Between 2003 and 2005, Alex Pitman served as the Director of Radiology at Peter McCallum Cancer Centre, where he worked in cancer imaging including PET and oncologic MR.
In 2005, Dr Pitman became a professor in the Department of Radiology at The University of Melbourne, and was appointed Director of Medical Imaging at St Vincent's Hospital in Melbourne. He joined Lake Imaging in 2009 as the Director of Nuclear Medicine and PET.
Professor Pitman is actively involved in service to the profession and education of radiologists and nuclear medicine physicians.
He is Chair of the Continuing Professional Development Committee of The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists (RANZCR), Chief Examiner in Anatomy of the RANZCR, Chair of its Nuclear Medicine Reference Group and Federal Councillor of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Physicians in Nuclear Medicine. He is returning to RANZCR Federal Council as Councillor starting 2012.
Professor Pitman's current professorial appointments are Adjunct Professor (Medical Imaging) at The University of Notre Dame Australia and Professorial Fellow in the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology at The University of Melbourne.
Professor Pitman is a contributor or co-author of several textbooks, and the senior author of Radiology Core Review (Saunders 2001). He is the author of over 40 peer-reviewed publications (18 as first author), has presented multiple scientific and invited conference papers nationally and internationally, and is a senior course leader of the annual ANZAPNM Cross-Sectional Anatomy Course.
Professor Pitman now balances professional service to the community as an oncologic radiologist and clinical director of regional Australia’s first PET/CT service with racing after a toddler around a small farm just outside Ballarat.