Professor Farah is dual trained oral physician and maxillofacial pathologist. His clinical and research expertise lie in optical imaging, molecular pathology and precision medicine in head and neck cancer. He is a leading international expert in oral cancer and precancerous pathology having published 250 clinical and scientific articles and a bestselling textbook. He is former Dean at the University of Western Australia Dental School, former Chair of the Australian Dental Research Foundation, and former President of the ANZ Division and Asia Pacific Region of the International Association for Dental Research. Currently he is Adjunct Professor at CQ University and Honorary Professorial Research Fellow at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre.