Graduating from the University of New South Wales in 1975, Cliff Rosendahl is a general practitioner of over 50 years’ experience, with a background in rural and metropolitan general practice and forensic medicine.

He is a member of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) and the Skin Cancer College Australasia (SCCA). Over the last 2 decades his clinical and academic focus has transitioned from generalist general practice to the early diagnosis of skin cancer and melanoma. He has collaborated with colleagues in Brisbane and Vienna to research the early diagnosis of melanoma and together they have published and disseminated the diagnostic algorithms Chaos and Clues and Prediction without Pigment.

He is a professor at the University of Queensland, Australia and a ‘Distinguished Visiting Professor’ at Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Iran. He has published over 110 papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals and co-authored 2 textbooks on skin cancer diagnostics, published in 9 and 4 languages respectively.

He has a busy schedule as an invited speaker to general practitioner and dermatologist groups both in Australia and internationally.

From 2026 Professor Cliff Rosendahl has reduced his clinical workload and is no longer performing routine follow-up skin examinations. He is however still available by appointment for patients who have been referred by other doctors, and according to availability, for new patients who are willing to have any routine follow-up skin checks by an alternative doctor. To make an appointment please call our receptionist on 3245 3011.