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A/Prof

Surein Arulananda

MBBS BMedSci PhD FRACP

SCLC/mesothelioma Co-chair /

Deputy Director, Medical Oncology, Monash Health

Surein Arulananda is the Interim Director of Medical Oncology and Thoracic Oncology trials lead at Monash Health. He holds an adjunct Associate Professor position with Monash University.

Surein returned to Australia in early 2022 after spending 2 years as a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow under the supervision of Prof Pasi Jänne at the Dana-Farber Cancer Center and Harvard Medical School in Boston, USA. His research is focused on understanding and developing novel strategies to manage minimal residual disease in oncogene-driven lung cancers.

He has a special interest in thoracic malignancies and is the associate editor for the Journal of Thoracic Oncology Clinical Research Reports published by the IASLC.

He has published over 25 peer-reviewed manuscripts, been an invited speaker both nationally and internationally and has been successful at competitive grant funding.

A/Prof. Surein Arulananda – Thoracic Oncology Group of Australasia (TOGA) Scientific Committee Member