Meet our panel of medical specialists

Associate Professor Malinda Itchins (BMedSci; MBBS(Hons1); FRACP; PhD) is a Thoracic Medical Oncologist at Royal North Shore Hospital and Chris O'Brien Lifehouse. She is a Clinician Researcher, Trialist, Board Director with the Clinical Oncology Society of Australia (COSA) and Advanced Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Co-Chair on the Scientific Committee with Thoracic Oncology Group of Australasia (TOGA). .. read more »

Associate Professor Nick Pavlakis, BSc MBBS MMed (Clin. Epi) PhD FRACP), who is an academic medical oncologist and Senior Staff Specialist in Medical Oncology at Sydney’s Royal North Shore Hospital. He is the current President of the Australasian Lung Cancer Trials Group (ALTG), current President of the Clinical Oncology Society of Australia (COSA) and Regent for Australasia for the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer. His clinical interests are in lung cancer and mesothelioma, and gastrointestinal cancers. He is involved in ongoing collaborative clinical research and translational research focusing on drug development and biomarkers... read more »

Dr Csilla Hasovits (BSc (Med) MBBS (Hons 1) FRACP) graduated from the University of New South Wales in 2004 and undertook her postgraduate training at Royal North Shore Hospital. She obtained her Fellowship in Medical Oncology in 2012. Csilla is currently undertaking a PhD through the University of Sydney at the Bill Walsh Translational Cancer Research Laboratory in her area of interest in lung cancer, evaluating treatment resistance according to EGFR mutation status... read more »