Speakers
CANCER PRECEPTORSHIP
FOR GENERAL PRACTITIONERS
SATURDAY 22 JULY 2023
FREE FACE TO FACE EVENT
8.30am registrations 9.00am– 3.30pm
For more information about this event contact:
E: Med_Onc_Secretary@health.qld.gov.au P: (07) 3646 7983
Associate Professor Glen Kennedy
Associate Professor Glen Kennedy is a haematologist who specialises in the treatment of malignant haematological disorders including bone marrow / stem cell transplantation.
A/Prof Kennedy began his specialty training in combined clinical haematology and haematology pathology in 1999 and was admitted to the Royal Australasian College of Physicians in late 2002 and the Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia in early 2003.
In 2003 A/Prof Kennedy undertook a Clinical Fellowship at the Peter McCallum Cancer Institute in Melbourne, Victoria, in areas of malignant and transplant haematology. To date, A/Prof Kennedy has authored or co-authored over 100 peer reviewed publications, over 160 abstracts at national and international meetings, and developed and managed several local investigator-initiated studies in haematology and bone marrow transplantation.
In late 2003 A/Prof Kennedy returned to the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital and was appointed Deputy Director of the Department of Haematology in 2007. In 2004 he developed regional services in haematology at the Rockhampton Hospital and gained his academic title via the University of Queensland School of Medicine in 2010. A/Prof Kennedy has also supervised 3 higher research degree students and is the current co-chair of the Queensland State-wide Cancer Clinical Network.
Associate Professor Melissa Eastgate
Associate Professor Melissa Eastgate is the Deputy Director of Medical Oncology at the RBWH. Melissa completed her medical degree at UQ and gained her FRACP in 2004. Since then she has worked at the RBWH as a medical oncologist, with her main clinical interests being melanoma and gastrointestinal cancers, in which areas she is an active researcher.
Melissa established and chairs the Melanoma MDT at the RBWH. Melissa supervises physician trainees throughout their training and is the Chair of the RACP Advanced Training Committee for Medical Oncology.
Melissa has a strong interest in enabling access to care for patients, having provided outreach services to Bundaberg for nine years, and currently is the medical lead of the Telechemotherapy service in Longreach. Melissa is a member of the BDHP Cancer theme leadership group and is an affiliate researcher at QIMR.
Dr Cameron I Curley MBBS FRACP FRCPA
Cameron is the Acting Director of the department of Haematology and Bone Marrow Transplantation at the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital. He graduated from the University of Queensland in 1999 and completed training in Haematology at the Royal Brisbane and Princess Alexandra Hospitals in 2010 before taking up an appointment as a clinical Haematologist at the RBWH. He provides outreach Haematology services to Rockhampton. His clinical interests include allogeneic stem cell transplantation, CAR T cell therapy and the mutational landscape of myeloid malignancy.
Assoc Prof. David Wyld
Assoc Prof. David Wyld is the Director of Medical Oncology at RBWH. He completed his Oncology training in Brisbane followed by a fellowship in the United Kingdom, before returning to take up a position at RBWH. He has also provided Outreach Services to Rockhampton for many years.
He has a strong clinical interest in gastrointestinal and neuroendocrine tumours and clinical trials, a specific research interest in neuroendocrine tumours and qualitative patient focused research and on ongoing involvement in education and training. He is also actively involved in broader Cancer Services planning and development, including being a current member of the Sate-wide Cancer Clinical Network executive committee.
Dr Michelle Grogan MBBS, FRANZCR
Dr Michelle Grogan MBBS, FRANZCR is a Senior Radiation Oncologist with special interests in breast cancer, genitourinary cancer, gastrointestinal tract cancer and gynaecological cancers.
After obtaining her fellowship in 1996, she undertook further training in breast, genitourinary and gynaecologic malignancies at the Breast Cancer Institute in Sydney and the Toronto Sunnybrook Hospital in Toronto, Canada. On returning to Australia in 1999, Dr Grogan worked at the Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney moving to Brisbane in 2007 to work at the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital.
Dr Grogan has experience in treating with new technologies such as IMRT, VMAT, Tomotherapy and stereotactic radiotherapy and in the use of brachytherapy for management of genitourinary, gynaecologic and GI tract tumours.
Having published in peer review journals, Dr Grogan is committed to clinical research and has an active role in the education of trainees.
Dr Michelle Nottage
Dr Nottage is a graduate of Otago University and completed specialist training in Medical Oncology in Brisbane in 2000. She undertook a fellowship in Medical Oncology new drug development at the Princess Margaret Hospital in Toronto before returning to a staff specialist position at the RBWH in 2003.
Dr Nottage’s special interests are Breast Cancer and Head and Neck Cancers.
Dr Darshit A Thaker FRACP, DipGeriOnc, ClinDipPallMed, MD, MBBS
Medical Oncologist and Palliative Medicine Physician
Senior Staff Specialist, Medical Oncology, RBWH
Senior Lecturer, University of Queensland
Dr Darshit Arunbhai Thaker is a Medical Oncologist and Palliative Medicine Physician. He is working with Queensland Health as Consultant for ten years. Darshit provides effective and personalised care to his patients during their journey from diagnosis to active management to palliation.
He is currently providing Oncology services at RBWH, North Lakes Cancer Centre (NLCCS) and Caboolture Hospital (CBH). He also provides services at Caboolture Private Hospital. His main areas of interest are Gastrointestinal and breast malignancies.
He completed his oncology training in RBWH in 2012, won the prestigious Unicorn Foundation Award to expand his knowledge in neuroendocrine tumours. He did extensive research on Tele oncology, which took him to national and international conferences for oral and poster presentations. He has multiple publications in field of Oncology and Palliative Care in various peer-reviewed journals.
Darshit has done Diploma in Geriatric Oncology and currently leading GeriOnc project at NLCCS and CBH. He has presented service outcome results in SIOG annual conference, Geneva 2019, and published paper in Journal of Geriatric Oncology in 2021. He is currently principal investigator in Quality-of-Life Study of older patients with cancer.
Darshit has maintained an active interest in teaching and clinical research as well. He is member of AGITG, ASCO, ESMO, MOGA, ANZPM and IAP. He is an accredited supervisor for advanced trainees of RACP, examiner for fellowship exams and Senior Lecturer at University of QLD.
He received prestigious ‘Hind Ratan’ (Jewel of India) award 2020 for his social welfare service to his home country India.
Dr Michelle Spanevello BPhty(Hons) MBBS(Hons) FRACP FRCPA
Dr Michelle Spanevello is a Senior Staff Specialist Haematologist at the RBWH. She is a dual trained Haematologist (pathologist and physician) completing her fellowships in 2011. She then took up a consultant position in Clinical Haematology at RBWH with outreach to North Lakes Cancer Care Services, and practised Laboratory Haematology at QML up until 2018. In 2016, she proceeded with an Observership at the University of Washington Medical Center/Seattle Cancer Care Alliance to further her interest in non-malignant (classical) haematology. Dr Spanevello has a particular interest in thrombosis and has subsequently become the clinical lead in non-malignant haematology at RBWH.