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Nurses: Familial Haematology

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Nurses
Sunday, November 5, 2023
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Meeting room 220

Speaker

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Dr Lucy Fox
Haematologist
Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre

Famililal haematology

2:00 PM - 2:45 PM

Biography

Dr Lucy Fox is a Haematologist with dual physician and pathology qualifications. She obtained her Medicine and Commerce / Science degrees at the University of Melbourne. She holds clinical appointments at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre/Royal Melbourne Hospital and Austin Health, where she runs Genomic Haematology clinics in which she cares for patients and families with bone marrow failure syndromes and germline predisposition to haematological malignancy. She is the Maddie Riewoldt’s Vision Bone Marrow Failure Research Fellow in the molecular haematology department of Peter MacCallum. Dr Fox is also a clinical research fellow in the Transfusion Research Unit at Monash University, where she focusses on the Aplastic Anaemia and other Bone marrow failure syndromes Registry and the newly established Australian Marrow Failure Biobank.
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Dr Nicole Den Elzen
Associate Genetic Counsellor, Haematology
Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre

The role of the genetic counsellor

2:45 PM - 3:30 PM

Biography

Nicole is a Genetic Counsellor at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, where she provides genetic counselling and genetic testing to individuals with a suspected germline predisposition to bone marrow failure or haematological malignancy. She has also specialised in familial cancer genetic counselling at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre. Prior to being a genetic counsellor, Nicole had a 10-year career in medical research, in the areas of cell cycle division and cancer genetics. She has also worked in research governance, policy and administration in medical research/genomics peak bodies, medical research institutes and state government.

Chairperson

Daniela Klarica
Myeloma Nurse Practitioner
Alfred Health

Catherine Vassili
Nurse Practitioner
Alfred Health

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