Jacob Sands
Dr. Sands received his MD from the University of Cincinnati in 2005. He completed his residency in internal medicine at the University of California, Davis and fellowship training in hematology/oncology also at the University of California, Davis. He joined the faculty in the Lowe Center for Thoracic Oncology at Dana-Farber in 2017. His research focuses […]
Michael Millward
Professor Michael Millward was the foundation Professor of Clinical Cancer Research at the University of Western Australia and Oncology Medical Director at Linear Clinical Research, Perth, Western Australia. He is also an adjunct Professor in the School of Biomedical Sciences, Edith Cowan University. He has extensive clinical and research interests in lung cancer and melanoma, […]
Avrom Sank
Avrom Sank, Bcom, ACA, Sloan Fellow LBS, is the founder and director of Sankfin Pty Ltd, a Sydney-based industrial property investment and management business established in 1996. He has over three decades of experience spanning property investment, development, infrastructure finance, and investment banking. Avrom is an Australian Chartered Accountant and a Sloan Fellow of London […]
Kortnye Smith
Dr Kortnye Smith completed her medical degree at the University of Adelaide in 2007 and undertook physician training in both South Australia and Victoria, obtaining a Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (FRACP) in Medical Oncology. She subsequently completed a sub-specialty fellowship in genomic sequencing at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre. She is […]
Tara Roberts
A/Prof Tara Roberts heads the Cancer and Inflammation laboratory at the Ingham Institute for Applied Medical Research and is the current Director of Research, School of Medicine Western Sydney University. She is also the pillar lead for Personalised Care and Precision Medicine at the Australian Centre for Cancer Equity. A/Prof Roberts’ research group focuses on […]
Archit Chawla
Archit is a Respiratory Physician based at Nepean Hospital, where he leads the Pulmonary Nodule MDM, Diagnostic Lung Cancer Service, and Bronchoscopy Service. He is a Clinical Senior Lecturer at the University of Sydney and a PhD candidate focusing on lung cancer diagnostics. Archit’s academic interests include pulmonary nodule management, early lung cancer detection, quality […]
Ashleigh Hocking
Ashleigh Hocking is a Specialist Lung Cancer Clinical Nurse Consultant at Austin Health and the ONJ Centre. She has previously worked in various lung cancer nursing roles at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre and Royal Melbourne Hospital. Since commencing as the inaugural Specialist Lung Cancer Nurse at Austin Health, Ashleigh has developed a nurse-led triaging model […]
Sho Waller
Dr Sho Waller completed his medical degree at the University of Melbourne in 2014 and undertook physician training in Victoria, obtaining a Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (FRACP) in Medical Oncology in 2021. He subsequently completed a sub-specialty fellowship in Cancer of Unknown Primary at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre. He is […]
Xinxin Hu
Dr Xinxin Hu (BMedSc. MD. MMedicine. FRACP.) is a consultant respiratory physician and interventional pulmonologist at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital (SCGH). He completed his advanced training in respiratory and sleep medicine in NSW before undertaking a dedicated fellowship in lung cancer and interventional pulmonology at SCGH. Concurrent with medical training, he completed a Master of […]
Vicki McLeod
Vicki McLeod is a Nurse Practitioner working with the oncology team at Monash Health. Vicki has extensive experience in oncology nursing. She holds a Masters of Nursing Leadership and a Masters of Nurse Practitioner.
Jennifer Borowsky
Jennifer Borowsky, MBChB, PhD, FRCPA, graduated with a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery in 2008 and was awarded Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Pathologists in Anatomical Pathology in 2016. She completed a fellowship in Gastrointestinal and Liver Pathology at Massachusetts General Hospital and Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston in 2017. She concurrently commenced and […]
Caroline Cooper
A/Prof Cooper BMedSci, MB, BS (Hons), FRCPA, GCertHE, MPhil is a Senior Anatomical Pathologist and Co-Medical Director, working for Pathology Queensland at Princess Alexandra Hospital (PAH), Brisbane, Queensland. She graduated in medicine from the University of Tasmania and undertook specialist Anatomical Pathology training at Westmead and Royal Prince Alfred Hospitals in Sydney. A/Prof Cooper is […]
Ben Kong
Dr Ben Kong is a Medical Oncologist at Prince of Wales Hospital and Senior Research Fellow with the SPHERE Cancer Clinical Academic Group at the University of New South Wales. Ben trained in General Medicine within the Nepean/Concord network and Medical Oncology at Westmead Hospital, prior to completing a PhD in Cancer Immunology at the […]
Stephen Fox
Stephen Fox is Director of Pathology at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre and Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne. He holds Honours degree and Medical degrees from the University of Bristol, UK and a DPhil in Medicine from the University of Oxford. He has Fellowships of both the Royal College of Pathologists Australasia (RCPA) […]
Sara Ramella
Sara Ramella is Professor of Radiation Oncology at Campus Bio-Medico University, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Campus Bio-Medico, Rome, Italy. She is also a member of the Scientific Board for the PhD Course in Artificial Intelligence – Health & Life Sciences. Prof Ramella trained at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore and Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS […]
Michael Ng
Michael Ng has been working with GenesisCare since 2009 as a radiation oncologist, with clinical interests in breast, prostate, gastrointestinal and lung cancers. He is clinical associate professor with the Department of Medicine, Melbourne University. Michael is the head of the stereotactic radiation therapy service at GenesisCare in Victoria. He has previously been radiotherapy chair […]
Sanjay Popat
Professor Popat is Chair of Thoracic Oncology at The Institute of Cancer Research and Consultant Medical Oncologist at The Royal Marsden Hospital where he is Head of the Lung Unit and Head of the Lung Research programme. He is an internationally recognized expert in the treatment of thoracic malignancies. His primary research interests include the […]
Shaun Yo
Shaun is a respiratory physician and Monash Health and The Alfred Hospital. He is the executive lead of the lung cancer service at Monash Health. He also performs EBUS and complex bronchoscopy procedures regularly at Cabrini Hospital and Epworth Eastern. After graduating from Monash University as dux of his year and attaining the top mark […]
Megan Sanders
Megan Sanders is a strategic leader with more than two decades of experience spanning cancer research, clinical trials, and organisational leadership. She is currently CEO of the Thoracic Oncology Group of Australasia (TOGA), where she drives the organisation’s vision and strategy, oversees operations, and builds sustainable partnerships through industry sponsorship, grants, and philanthropy. Megan’s career reflects […]
Maurice Pérol
Maurice Pérol, M.D., is a leading thoracic oncologist with extensive experience in clinical research and lung cancer treatment. He served as Head of the Department of Thoracic Oncology at Croix-Rousse University Hospital in Lyon from 1993 to 2011 and currently leads the Thoracic Oncology Program at the Léon Bérard Cancer Centre. Dr. Pérol has been […]
Shalini Subramaniam
Dr. Shalini Subramaniam is a medical oncology Staff Specialist at Bankstown-Lidcombe Hospital with an interest in genitourinary, lung and breast cancers. She is also a Research Fellow at the NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre, where she provides clinical input supporting the development and conduct of genitourinary and lung cancer trials. Shalini was recently awarded her PhD […]
Justice Rachel Pepper
Justice Rachel Pepper was appointed as a Judge of the Land and Environment Court of NSW in May 2009. She is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Sydney’s Law School and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law. She was the inaugural Visiting Fellow at the Centre for International and Public Law at […]
Adithya Balasubramanian
Dr Adithya (Adi) Balasubramanian is a medical oncologist at Monash Health and the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, with a clinical and research focus on thoracic cancers. He seeks to integrate translational research into patient-centred care, with his PhD utilising functional genomics to identify novel immunotherapeutic targets in lung cancer. In 2023, he was awarded a […]
Samantha Bowyer
Dr Samantha Bowyer is a Medical Oncologist working at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital and Linear Clinical Research. She is the current NSCLC Co-Chair for the TOGA Scientific Committee. Her principal areas of interest are the treatment of Lung Cancer and Head and Neck Cancer. She has been a principal investigator on many international phase I-III […]
Udit Nindra
Dr. Udit Nindra completed his medical training at the University of New South Wales with Honours in 2016. He completed junior medical officer training through the Illawarra Shoalhaven Local Health District before undertaking specialist training through Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and Liverpool Hospital. Following completion of core medical oncology training, he completed a dedicated fellowship […]
Amelia Parker
Amelia completed her Bachelor of Biomedical Engineering and Advanced Science (Biochemistry) degree at the University of Sydney before undertaking her PhD (Children’s Cancer Institute and University of New South Wales) investigating the role of microtubule proteins in lung cancer aggressiveness and chemotherapy resistance. Amelia furthered her interest in translational lung cancer research during her postdoctoral […]
Dasantha Jayamanne
Dasantha Jayamanne (DJ) is a Radiation Oncologist at Royal North Shore Hospital (RNSH) and Genesis Care in Sydney. He has a special interest in lung cancer and leads the thoracic radiation oncology group at RNSH. DJ’s research interests include Stereotactic Ablative Body Radiotherapy (SBRT) and Stereotactic Radiosurgery (SRS) for brain metastases. He is completing a […]
Neil Wallace
Dr Neil Wallace is a radiation oncologist practising at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Melbourne. He completed subspecialty fellowship training in lung oncology before commencing a staff specialist position at the Peter Mac centre at Box Hill where he treats patients with lung and skin cancers as well as oligometastatic disease. Neil is also involved […]
Antony Mersiades
Dr Antony Mersiades is a Medical Oncologist who is subspecialised in the treatment of lung cancers, gastrointestinal cancers, and cancer research. He is the principal investigator on a number of clinical trials at Northern Beaches Hospital and is an oncology research fellow at the NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre at the University of Sydney where he […]
Senthuran Shivakumar
Dr. Senthuran Shivakumar is a Respiratory Physician and Clinical Pharmacologist based at Austin Health and the Olivia Newton-John Cancer Research Institute in Melbourne, Victoria. He is currently pursuing a PhD focused on identifying biomarkers for immunotherapy-related pneumonitis. By examining the cellular, molecular, and microbial factors driving immunotherapy-related pneumonitis, his work aims to find predictive and diagnostic biomarkers […]
Michelle Goh
A/Prof Michelle Goh is a consultant dermatologist at the Skin Health Institute. She also works in several public hospitals, including the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne, Austin Health, the Royal Melbourne Hospital and Alfred Health. Her areas of interest are complex skin cancers especially in patients who are immunosuppressed, cutaneous adverse reactions […]
Faria Arefin
Dr Faria Arefin is the current Medical Oncology Clinical and Research Fellow at the Northern Adelaide Cancer Centre. She obtained her FRACP in Adelaide, completing her specialist training across major South Australian institutions including the Lyell McEwin Hospital, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Royal Adelaide Hospital, and Flinders Medical Centre. Dr Arefin has a special interest in lung cancer […]
Beung-Chul Ahn
Dr. Ahn is an Assistant Professor and medical oncologist at the Center for Lung Cancer at the National Cancer Center (NCC), Korea. He specializes in targeted therapy and immunotherapy for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), with extensive expertise in both clinical practice and research. Dr. Ahn has made significant contributions to major global clinical trials […]
Joel Rhee
Associate Professor Joel Rhee is the Head of Discipline of General Practice and the Director of UNSW Academic General Practice Network at the School of Clinical Medicine, UNSW Sydney. He is also the chair of the RACGP Cancer and Palliative Care Specific Interests Network. He sits on the National Lung Cancer Screening Program Clinical Advisory […]
Marissa Ryan
Marissa is a Consultant Cancer Pharmacist at the Princess Alexandra Hospital in Brisbane. She completed a PhD in telepharmacy, and her other published work includes papers on medication safety and service models. Marissa is an Adjunct Associate Professor at The University of Queensland, is Chair of the COSA Cancer Pharmacists Group and a member of […]
Fraser Brims
