Speakers

Associate Professor Jane Oliaro

In the Oliaro laboratory, researchers investigate the regulation of cytotoxic lymphocytes – the immune cells that are responsible for the recognition and killing of cancer cells. Our research focuses on investigating immune cell interactions with cancer cells, with a particular focus on immune synapse formation.

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Associate Professor Kate Burbury

Associate Professor Kate Burbury is a consultant haematologist and Deputy Chief Medical Officer at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre. She is the lead clinician for MPN/CML, as well as the haemostasis/ thrombosis service and peri-procedural optimisation, including prehabilitation, for all of our patients at PMac.

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Professor Bernhard Riedel

Bernhard is the Director of the Department of Anesthesia, Perioperative and Pain Medicine at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, with an honorary academic appointment at the University of Melbourne.

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Yvonne Panek-Hudson

Yvonne Panek-Hudson is a nurse practitioner in the Haematology Service,specialising in the long term follow up of patients post-allogeneic bone marrow transplant. She has a particular interest in late effects surveillance and management, chronic graft versus host disease and sexual health.

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Patrick Hwu, MD

Dr. Patrick Hwu is a tumor immunologist focused on the areas of vaccines, adoptive T-cell therapies, and immune resistance. His research and clinical efforts have led to insights and advances in the understanding of the interactions between tumors and the immune system, and the development of cellular therapies.

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Thomas A. Aloia, MD, MHCM, FACS

Chief Value & Quality Officer, Department of Value & Quality, Division of Chief Medical Executive, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX

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Kathleen M. Schmeler, MD

Department of Gynecologic Oncology and Reproductive Medicine, Division of Surgery

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Jeffrey E. Gershenwald, MD

Professor (term-tenured), Department of Surgical Oncology, Division of Surgery, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX

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Edward L Trimble, MD, MPH

MD, MPH and the NCI Center for Global Health

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Lee M. Ellis, MD

Professor of Surgery, Department of Surgical Oncology, Division of Surgery, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX

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Professor Ian Frazer

Professor Ian Frazer is a clinician scientist, trained as a clinical immunologist in Scotland. As a professor at the University of Queensland, he leads a research group working at TRI in Brisbane, Australia on the immunobiology of epithelial cancers.

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Andre Ilbawi, MD

André Ilbawi, M.D. is a fellow in complex surgical oncology at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, TX. He graduated magna cum laude then AOA from the University of Pennsylvania. He received his training in General Surgery at the University of Washington and is a final year fellow at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center.

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Professor Peter Leedman, MBBS, PhD, FRACP, FAHMS

Peter Leedman completed medicine at The University of Western Australia (UWA), then trained in endocrinology at Royal Melbourne Hospital in the mid-1980s. He completed his PhD at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute in Melbourne with Len Harrison on autoimmune thyroid disease from 1987-1991.

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Professor Jon Emery

Professor  Jon Emery is the Herman Professor of Primary Care Cancer Research at the University of Melbourne, and the Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre Primary Care Research and Education Lead.He is also Director of the Cancer Australia Primary Care Collaborative Cancer Clinical Trials Group (PC4),

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André La Gerche

Andre is a cardiologist specialising in cardiac imaging, a Future Leadership Fellow of the National Heart Foundation and a NHMRC Career Development Fellow.

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Professor Rob Newton

Professor Robert Newton, PhD, AEP, CSCS*D, FESSA, FNSCA is Associate Dean, Medical and Exercise Sciences and Research Professor, Exercise Medicine Research Institute at Edith Cowan University Perth, Western Australia.

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Associate Professor Prue Cormie

Associate Professor Prue Cormie is an Accredited Exercise Physiologist whose research and clinical work focuses on the role of exercise in the management of cancer.

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