People

Prof

Nick Pavlakis

BSc MBBS MMEd (Clin Epi) PhD FRACP

Board Director /

Chair /

Medical Oncologist, Royal North Shore Hospital

Prof Nick Pavlakis is a Senior Staff Specialist in the Department of Medical Oncology at Royal North Shore Hospital. He has nearly 20 years’ experience in the treatment and research of thoracic and gastrointestinal cancers.

Nick is the current Chair of the TOGA Board and has previously served on the Boards of Northern Cancer Institute and COSA, where he was President from 2019-2020.

His training and research background includes new drug development, biomarker research, clinical trials, including TOGA’s ASPiRATION study, and clinical practice guidelines development.

Nick has served on the leadership committees of numerous national/international collaborative group trials in lung cancer, mesothelioma and gastrointestinal cancers. He was involved in the development of Australian clinical practice guidelines in lung cancer and mesothelioma. He has served as faculty of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC) World Conference on Lung Cancer, its Mesothelioma task force and is current co-chair of the IASLC Continuing Medical Education Committee; and is a faculty member of the MOGA/ASCO/ACCR Australia and Asia Pacific Clinical Oncology Research Development Workshop (ACORD).

Nick Pavlakis

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Deputy Chair

Prof

Emily Stone

MBBS MMed PhD FRACP
Scientific Chair

Prof

Ben Solomon

MBBS FRACP PhD
Educational Chair

A/Prof

Melissa Moore

BA BSc MBBS (Hons) PhD FRACP
Finance Chair

Catherine Sim

LLB BEc FCPA MAICD
Membership & Advocacy Chair

Lillian Leigh

BSc LLB LLM GCHP GAICD
Communications & Grants Chair

Prof

Shalini Vinod

MBBS MD FRANZCR
Philanthropy Chair

A/Prof

Phillip Antippa

MBBS, FRACS, OAM
Governance Chair

Evan Dukas

B Bus (Acc Mar) MAICD ACPA