Panel - Case-based Discussions
Wednesday, August 13, 2025 |
3:55 PM - 5:00 PM |
Ballroom 2 and 3 |
Overview
Panelist: Radiation Oncologist - Dr Joe Sia
Panelist: Medical Oncologist - Dr Mal Ameratunga
Panelist: Neurosurgeon - Prof Lindy Jeffree
Panelist: Regional Medical Oncologist - A/Prof Robert Zielinski
Speaker
Dr Mal Ameratunga
Alfred Health/ Monash University
Panel - Case-based Discussions
Biography
Mal Ameratunga is a clinician-scientist specialising in neuro-oncology and drug development working at Alfred Health/Monash University. He completed a neuro-oncology fellowship at the Austin Hospital and a drug development fellowship at the Royal Marsden Hospital, prior to returning to Australia to complete a wet laboratory PhD in tumour evolution in melanoma. He is the current Head of Molecular Oncology and Rare Cancers at the Alfred, where his focus is on developing innovative clinical trial paradigms for patients with rare and poor prognosis tumours.
Prof Rosalind L. Jeffree
Alfred Hospital
Panel - Case-based Discussions
Biography
Professor Jeffree is a full-time public hospital neurosurgeon and Director of Neurosurgery at the Alfred Hospital in Melbourne. She is a general neurosurgeon with particular expertise and interest in neuro-oncology, epilepsy and trauma.
Alongside her clinical load, Professor Jeffree has research collaborations in the fields of brain tumours, cerebral imaging, trauma and intensive care. She is on the Trial Management Committees for the national collaborative studies PRECISION-TBI, MAGMA, and LUMOS.
Professor Jeffree is Chair of Brain Cancer Biobanking Australia and lead investigator on a successful MRFF Infrastructure Grant to develop three platforms to improve brain cancer care and research: an Australian Brain Cancer Registry using automated electronic data collection, Registry Clinical Trials and Patient Enrolment Platform and a Biobanking and Organoids platform. As a pilot study for this, she was lead clinician in publication of the Queensland Brain Cancer Quality Index 2011-2020.
Dr Joseph Sia
Peter Maccallum Cancer Centre
Panel - Case-based Discussions
Biography
Joe Sia is a Specialist Radiation Oncologist in the Parkville Neuro-Oncology Unit of the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre and Royal Melbourne Hospital. He is also a Senior Clinical Research Fellow in the Brain Cancer Research Laboratory at WEHI, leading the Neuro-Oncology Translational Radiobiology Group under the Brain Cancer Research Laboratory. He did his medical training in New Zealand, radiation oncology training in Australia, and a laboratory-based PhD with the University of Melbourne.
A/Prof Robert Zielinski
Orange Hospital
Panel - Case-based Discussions
Biography
Rob is a passionate Clinical Oncologist living and working in Orange NSW. He has helped establish an NSW Premiers award winning Clinical Trials Unit and strives to deliver world leading oncology services to regional and rural patients.
He has a subspecialty interest in GBMs, Melanomas, Lung and GU Cancers.
Rob is also an Associate Professor at Western Sydney University in the Medical Faculty.
Session Chair
Rachel Roberts-Thomson
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital
