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TSANZ Symposium: Lung cancer screening: Steadying yourself for the upcoming surge

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TSANZ Symposia
Monday, March 24, 2025
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
E2

Speaker

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Dr Gerard Olive
Thoracic Physician
The Prince Charles Hospital

Update on international and national lung cancer screening programs

8:30 AM - 8:45 AM

Biography

Dr Gerry Olive is a consultant respiratory physician at The Prince Charles Hospital in Brisbane where he chairs Nodule and Lung Cancer MDTs. He is the Deputy Convenor of the Lung Cancer SIG.
Prof Sue Crengle
Professor Hauora Maori And Director Ngāi Tahu Māori Health Resarch Unit
University of Otago

Reaching those most at need: Lung cancer screening in the Maori population

8:45 AM - 9:00 AM

Biography

Sue completed her MBChB, MPH and PhD degrees at the University of Auckland. She is vocationally registered as a general practitioner and a public health medicine specialist, and is a Professor of Hauora Māori at the University of Otago. She has been working as a researcher for over 20 years. Her research interests include inequities in health, health services research, quality of care, cardiovascular disease and lung cancer. Much of Sue’s work involves identifying where and how inequities in health occur, and in testing ways to eliminate these inequities. Sue also works one and half days a week as a GP for Ngāti Porou Oranga.
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Dr Henry Marshall
Thoracic Physician
The Prince Charles Hospital

Managing referrals from lung cancer screening program at your centre

9:00 AM - 9:15 AM

Biography

Henry Marshall, FRACP PhD, is a senior staff Thoracic Physician at The Prince Charles Hospital, Brisbane and Visiting Medical Officer at St Vincent’s Private Hospital Northside, Brisbane. His research, at the University of Queensland Thoracic Research Centre, aims to reduce the burden of disease caused by lung cancer by focussing on lung cancer early detection, screening and smoking cessation. Currently recruiting PhD candidates for lung cancer screening and smoking cessation research - please feel free to email me
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Dr Asha Bonney
Physician
Royal Melbourne Hospital / Eastern Health

Additional and incidental findings from lung cancer screening

9:15 AM - 9:30 AM

Biography

Dr Asha Bonney is a Respiratory and Sleep Physician at the Royal Melbourne Hospital and Eastern Health. She recently completed her PhD studying lung cancer screening at the University of Melbourne and is a member of the TSANZ Lung Cancer Working Party.
All Speakers

Panel discussion

9:30 AM - 10:00 AM

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Prof Fraser Brims
Consultant
Curtin University / Sir Charles Gardiner Hospital

Chairperson

Biography

Prof Fraser Brims is a Consultant Respiratory Physician at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital and Director of Research at Curtin Medical School. He is chair of the WA Mesothelioma Registry and is Deputy Director of the Institute for Respiratory Health where he heads the Occupational and Respiratory Health research group. His has a clinical and research interests in occupational and asbestos related diseases, and early lung cancer detection, as lead of the WA Asbestos Review Program.
Dr Jessica Nash

Chairperson

Biography

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