Dr Patricia Bastick
MBBS (Hons), BMedSci, MAICD, GradCertClinEpi, FRACP
Dr Patti Bastick is a Medical Oncologist with a subspecialty focus on breast cancer and genitourinary cancers, including prostate, bladder, kidney and testicular cancers. She provides comprehensive care through St George Oncology Associates, with inpatient care at St George Private Hospital, and consulting and supervising treatment at Cancer Care Southside in Miranda, and Cancer Care Northern Beaches.
Patti is the current Statewide Clinical Lead for Cancer Services in Tasmania, where she provides clinical leadership for the development and delivery of the 10-year Tasmanian Cancer Plan. In this role she works across hospitals, clinicians and government to improve access, coordination and equity of cancer care statewide.
She is a Director of St George Oncology Associates and has held a number of clinical governance and advisory positions across cancer services. Patti also works as a clinical advisor in digital health, contributing medical expertise to the design and implementation of technologies that enhance communication and patient experience. In addition, she provides medico-legal assessments and expert reports for compensation, TPD and medical negligence matters.
Patti completed her medical training at the University of Tasmania and was awarded Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians in 2008. She has been actively involved in clinical trials for more than 15 years and has participated in over 60 international phase I–III studies, supporting access to emerging therapies in routine practice.
Outside of work, Patti divides her time between Sydney and Tasmania and enjoys spending time with her family and being near the water
Dr Tracey Dunlop
Consultant medical oncologist Dr Tracey Dunlop graduated from the University of New South Wales with first class Honours and obtained her FRACP in 2011.
She is a Staff Specialist at St George and Sutherland Hospitals, and a Visiting Medical Officer at St George Private Hospital, Hurstville Private Hospital and Griffith Base Hospital.
Her clinical practice is focused on the treatment of breast, lung and neurological (brain) malignancies.
Dr Dunlop has an interest in mentoring/teaching junior doctors as well as GP education and is the Director of Prevocational Education and Training at St George Hospital.
“I feel privileged to work in the field of oncology and to support and guide my patients through their cancer journey. I am often asked how I can work in a field which is perceived to be emotionally demanding and has such significant impact on the lives of patients and their families. I do my job because the relationships I form with my patients can be incredibly rewarding and because I believe I can make a difference, not only in providing excellent clinical care, but with compassion and open communication.”
Dr Carole Harris
Dr Carole Harris is a Medical Oncologist with a special interest in treating breast cancer and genitourinary malignancies (kidney, prostate, bladder and testicular cancer).
Dr Harris graduated from Medicine at the University of Sydney Medicine with honours in 2002 and was awarded a fellowship in Medical Oncology with the Royal Australian College of Physicians in 2009. She went on to complete a Masters of Medicine (Research) in pharmacoepidemiology at the University of New South Wales in 2014.
Dr Harris is a staff specialist at St George and Sutherland Hospitals and a VMO at St George Private Hospital. As well as her clinical interests, she is heavily involved in education as a clinical lecturer at UNSW, where she teaches undergraduate medical students and runs the oncology teaching program at St George and Sutherland Clinical School.
Her research interests are based around the use and effectiveness of targeted cancer therapies both in clinical trials and in the post market setting. She is an investigator on a number of clinical trials and an examiner with the Royal Australian College of Physicians.
She is a member of a number of professional societies including the Medical Oncology Group of Australia, Clinical Oncology Society of Australia, American Society of Clinical Oncologists, Australian and New Zealand Breast Cancer Trial Group, Australian and New Zealand Urological and Prostate Cancer Trials Group.
Dr Fernando Roncolato
BMed FRACP FRCPA
Dr Roncolato is a specialist in blood disorders and treats all aspects of blood diseases. He manages lymphoma, leukaemia, myelodysplasia, myeloma; disorders of platelets, bleeding and clotting; anaemia and red cell disorders such as thalassaemia, and perinatal haematology.
Dr Roncolato graduated in Medicine from the University of Newcastle and completed specialty training in Sydney. He is a Conjoint Lecturer in Medicine at the University of New South Wales and in 2010-2011 undertook research in T-cell lymphoma at the Policlinico Sant’Orsola in Bologna, Italy.
Dr David Thomas
MBBS FRACP
Specialties: Gastrointestinal, Pancreas, Biliary, Colorectal, Neuroendocrine and CNS tumours
Dr David Thomas has a practice that focuses on the care of people with gastro – intestinal, Neuroendocrine (NET) and CNS (Brain) cancers. He has a special interest in looking after patients with cancers of the colon, pancreas and biliary tract and stomach and oesophagus. He is part of a Neuroendocrine Tumour (NET) Clinic and Multi-disciplinary team that provides treatment and care for people across NSW.
David graduated from Sydney University in 1995 and completed his Medical Oncology training through St George Hospital in 2003. In 2004 he worked as a Fellow in the Gastrointestinal Cancers Unit at the Royal Marsden Hospital. He now works at both St George and Sutherland Hospitals as a Staff Specialist and in Private Practice at St George Oncology Associates and the Southside Cancer Care Centre.
David is committed to the multi-disciplinary care of people with cancer. He is a member of the NET, Colorectal, Upper Gastrointestinal Cancer and CNS tumour multi-disciplinary teams at St George and Sutherland Hospitals. David works closely with a team of surgeons, radiologists, nuclear medicine physicians, radiation oncologists and pathologists to provide the best care for his patients. He is involved in the recruitment of patients to clinical trials as part of his effort to provide the best outcomes for the patients in his care.
Dr Lyn Ley Lam
MBBS, MMED (Clinical Epidemiology), FRACP
Dr Lyn Ley Lam is a consultant medical oncologist with an interest in treating lung, breast, gastrointestinal and gynaecological cancers.
Dr Lam obtained her medical degree (MBBS) in 2012 from Monash University (Melbourne). She completed her medical oncology training through Orange Health Service, St George and Sutherland Hospitals and was awarded a fellowship in Medical Oncology from the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (FRACP) in 2021. Dr Lam is also the research fellow at the NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre (University of Sydney) where she runs phase I, II and III cancer clinical trials and helps develop new clinical trials for lung and gastrointestinal cancers.
Dr Lam is the sole recipient of the 2021 University of Sydney School of Public Health Clinical Epidemiology Scholarship (Master of Medicine) which is awarded to an academic high achiever. She is also a conjoint associate lecturer with the University of New South Wales and a regular peer reviewer of the Journal of Thoracic Oncology.
Dr Lam speaks fluent English, Cantonese and Malay and can converse in Mandarin.