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Dr

Sarah Heynemann

MBBS/BMedSci, MBioeth, FRACP

Early Career Researcher representative /

Medical Oncologist

Dr Sarah Heynemann is an early-career medical oncologist who completed her oncology training across various hospitals in Victoria (Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Bendigo Health, St Vincent’s Hospital).

Subsequently she has pursued clinical and research interests in lung cancer via fellowships at Austin Health and in 2021 was the lung fellow at Chris O’Brien Lifehouse, Sydney. Currently she works part-time at St Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne as the clinical trials fellow and is a PhD candidate within the Faculty of Medicine and Health at The University of Sydney investigating the topic ‘Ethical and epistemic implications of emerging trends in the cancer clinical trial landscape’ in conjunction with a multi-disciplinary clinician and ethicist supervision team. Sarah is also involved locally in medical student education and sits on a hospital HREC.

Dr Sarah Heynemann – Thoracic Oncology Group of Australasia (TOGA) Scientific Committee Member