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
Zulfiquer Otty
Dr Zulfiquer Otty underwent undergraduate and postgraduate medical training in India. After relocating to Australia, Zulfiquer completed Basic physician training and Medical Oncology advanced training. While working as medical oncologist, he did PhD with James Cook University on lung Cancer referral pathway (submitted in June 2025). Zulfiquer’s clinical interests are in managing thoracic malignancies and […]
Andrew Pattison
Dr Andrew Pattison is a Respiratory Physician at Sunshine Coast University Hospital where he is the Clinical Lead in Interventional Pulmonology and Chair of the Lung Cancer MDT. Dr Pattison completed speciality training in Respiratory & Sleep Medicine in Queensland before completing a fellowship in Interventional Pulmonology at Toronto General Hospital in Canada. Andrew has […]
Maggie Moore
Dr Maggie Moore is a medical oncologist at the Alfred Hospital. She has specific expertise in the treatment of lung cancer as well as in the management of melanoma and breast cancers. She is actively engaged in clinical research across her tumour streams of interest.
Ash Malalasekera
Renae Grundy
Dr Renae Grundy is a Clinical Nurse Consultant in Lung Cancer at the Royal Hobart Hospital, Tasmania, with over 18 years of specialist experience in thoracic oncology nursing. Her practice centres on patient advocacy, continuity of care, and service development to improve outcomes for people diagnosed with lung cancer and their carers. She has led […]
Lavinia Tan
Dr Lavinia Tan is a Medical Oncologist with a sub-speciality interest in treating patients with lung cancer. She completed a clinical fellowship focusing on thoracic malignancies at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre and a laboratory-based PhD in the Molecular Biomarkers and Translational Genomics Laboratory exploring the utility of circulating tumour DNA to guide precision medicine […]
Alex Davis
Dr Alex Davis is a medical oncologist with an interest in thoracic malignancies. His focus includes biomarker directed therapy, personalised medicine and patient centred decision making. He is a strong believer in clinical trials improving patient outcomes and is an active participant in several industry and TOGA led clinical trials. He is currently enrolled in […]
Martin Cumming
Carly Magnisalis
Vicki Hamilton
Vicki Hamilton OAM, CEO/Secretary of the Asbestos Council of Victoria/GARDS, brings over two decades of dedicated advocacy and support for individuals affected by asbestos-related diseases. Having personally experienced the impact of asbestos-related disease through the loss of her father, grandfather and her godfather, Vicki has channelled her commitment into extensive community service. Since 2002, she […]
Gary Lee
Professor Y C Gary Lee is a Professor of Respiratory Medicine at UWA and a consultant chest physician at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital where he set up and directs Australia’s first centralized hospital pleural service. He is a world leader in pleural research and heads a translational research group at the Institute for Respiratory Health. […]
Spiro Tzouganatos
Spiro Tzouganatos is one of Australia’s leading barristers in Dust Diseases and Toxic Torts litigation. He specialises in complex and challenging cases and has acted in many test cases relating to injuries including cancer caused by asbestos, silica, other substances, and products. Appearing in Courts and Tribunals throughout the Commonwealth including in the High Court, […]
Mary Duffy
Mary Duffy is an Advanced Practice, Clinical Nurse Consultant in the Lung Cancer Multidisciplinary Team (MDT) at the Peter Mac Callum Cancer Centre, Melbourne Australia. Mary works primarily with patients who have lung cancer or mesothelioma, and their families. Mary has worked with lung cancer patients for over 25 years in a variety of roles. […]
Catherine Jones
Professor Catherine Jones is a cardiothoracic radiologist, working in private and public practice in Brisbane. She has fellowship qualifications from the UK, Australia and Canada. She is an executive member of the Australia and New Zealand Society of Thoracic Radiologists. Catherine has extensive experience in occupational lung imaging, is a B reader with NIOSH, and […]
Wee Loong (Melvin) Chin
Dr. Chin is a medical oncologist at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Western Australia. His research expertise lies in bioinformatics, artificial intelligence, and computational biology, focusing on translational aspects of mesothelioma biomarkers and prediction of mesothelioma treatment response. His research combines computational approaches with clinical expertise to develop innovative approaches for improving mesothelioma cancer care.
Anthony Linton
A/Prof Linton is the academic and research director of the Asbestos and Dust Diseases Research Institute and a senior staff specialist in medical oncology at the Concord Cancer Centre in Concord Repatriation General Hospital, specialising in thoracic and genitourinary malignancies. He received his medical degree at the University of New South Wales before completing physician […]
Sonja Klebe
Sonja Klebe is a Professor in Anatomical Pathology at Flinders University/SA Pathology at Flinders Medical Centre in South Australia and the previous interim Research Director of ADDRI (on secondment). A Graduate of Berlin Free University, with an MD in Protein Biochemistry and a PhD in Gene Therapy, her work has focused for the past 20 […]
Jaclyn Yoong
A/Prof Jaclyn Yoong is a Medical Oncologist and Palliative Care Physician from Melbourne. She works at Northern Health and Monash Health; and her primary interest is in lung cancer care and effective integration with palliative care. She completed her fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston in 2012 and also attended the TS Chan Harvard […]
Steven Kao
A/Prof Steven Kao is a medical oncologist at the Chris O’Brien Lifehouse. He completed his PhD at the Asbestos Diseases Research Institute and focused his research on predictive and prognostic factors in mesothelioma. Steven is a keen clinical trialist focusing on thoracic oncology and continues translational research in mesothelioma and lung cancer. He was awarded […]
Susan Harden
Associate Professor Susan Harden works as a Consultant Radiation Oncologist at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre. She is Research Lead for the Department of Radiation Oncology and is an honorary Associate Professor for the Cancer Registries Research Programme at Monash University. She qualified in medicine from Oxford University and completed her specialist training in Cambridge, […]
Jazmin Eckhaus
Dr Jazmin Eckhaus is an Australian-trained cardiothoracic surgeon with a sub-specialty thoracic surgical practice. She has a special interest in minimally invasive thoracic surgery and pleural disease. She has public appointments at Eastern Health and St Vincent’s Hospital. She is a founding member of the bi-national Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand Thoracic Surgical Database, which […]
Arnaud Scherpereel
Arnaud Scherpereel is Full Professor of Respiratory Medicine since 2008 in the Pulmonary and Thoracic Oncology Department. He is the head of the Heart, Lung and Vessels division in Lille University Hospital (CHU), France. Since his post-doctoral research fellowship in the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA, he has a special focus in Thoracic Oncology and […]
Stephen Clarke
Stephen Clarke is a medical oncologist at Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney and Professor of Medicine at the University of Sydney. He is the Director of the North Star VNP Cancer Trials Unit in Northern Sydney Local Health District. After completing his medical oncology training at Royal North Shore Hospital, Stephen undertook a PhD […]
Kelvin Lau
Mr Kelvin Lau is Clinical Director and Consultant Thoracic Surgeon at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London. He qualified in Oxford University where he also completed a PhD on antivascular targeting. He was awarded the only cardiothoracic surgery national training post in 2006. His training took him to pioneering centres in the world, including the Royal Brompton, […]
Solange Peters
Solange Peters, MD, PhD, is a full professor and director of medical oncology, as well as the thoracic malignancies program in the Department of Oncology at the University Hospital of Lausanne in Lausanne, Switzerland. She received both her doctorate in medicine and PhD from the University Hospital of Lausanne. After completing her clinical education in […]
Peter Spolc
Peter is a university administrator from the NSW Blue Mountains. He was diagnosed in March 2021 with stage IV ALK+ NSCLC and has since actively pursued opportunities to better understand his cancer and its treatments, and engage with the clinical and research environments. He sees his role as bringing that understanding to both practitioners and […]
Peter Young
Peter Young is a consultant interested in the human-centred design, strategy, governance, risk, and organisational transformation of service providers. He has been a member of the Board of a NSW metropolitan Local Health District and a member of the NSW Health Ministerial Advisory Committee. Peter was diagnosed with NSCLC in 2020, for which he initially […]
Matthew Peters
Matthew is professor of Respiratory Medicine at Macquarie University and Senior Specialist in Dept of Respiratory Medicine at Concord Hospital. He is a previous President of TSANZ and a passionate advocate for improvement in care and outcomes for those with and at risk of lung cancer.
Fiona Hegi-Johnson
Associate Professor Fiona Hegi-Johnson is a Radiation Oncologist at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre and the University of Melbourne. Clinically, she specialises in the treatment of patients with lung and breast cancer, including a subspecialty interest in stereotactic ablative body radiotherapy (SABR). Fiona was the immediate past Chair of the TROG Lung Subspecialty Group and […]
Bryan Chan
Associate Professor Bryan Chan, BPharm (Hons I), MBBS (Hons I, Uni Medal), FRACP, MMed (Clin Epi), graduated with a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery with first class honours and the University Medal from the University of Queensland. After being awarded Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians, he completed a clinical research fellowship at […]
Christopher Cao
Christopher Cao is the current Thoracic Representative of the Australian and New Zealand Society of Cardiac and Thoracic Surgeons. He graduated from UNSW with First Class Honours and completed his Specialist Fellowship in Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center before joining the Faculty in New York University. He is now a Clinical Professor in Sydney University […]
Tim Clay
Tim is a medical oncologist at St John of God Subiaco in WA. He completed oncology training through the Victorian Medical Oncology Training Group and an MD at St Vincents Hospital Melbourne and the University of Melbourne. He has a subspecialty interest in the management of thoracic malignancies and is active in clinical trials and […]
