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 from the University of Sydney. Her thesis, “Explaining the Effects of Systemic Therapy on Survival in Advanced Cancer,” examined how the benefits of systemic anticancer treatments are communicated and understood in clinical practice, with a focus on improving patients’ understanding of treatment effects on survival and supporting clinicians in these discussions.