SCLMA General Monthly Meeting Feb 2025

2025thu27feb6:30 pmthu8:30 pmSCLMA General Monthly Meeting Feb 2025

Event Details

Update Functional Imaging & Cancer Advances
  • Presenter: Dr Tom Huang – Lumus Imaging
  • Presenter: Dr Michelle Morris – Coastal Cancer Care
  • Presenter: Dr Jeremy Long – Coastal Cancer Care
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TOPIC: Update Functional Imaging & Cancer Advances
PRESENTER: Dr Tom Huang – Lumus Imaging

“The best part of my job is the ability to make an impact on a patient’s cancer journey.”

Dr. Tom Huang is Radiologist and Nuclear Medicine Specialist with a dedicated interest in oncologic imaging.  His qualifications include Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery Monash University 2006; Fellowship in PET, Queensland PET Service 2009; Fellowship of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists 2015 and Fellowship of the Australasian Association of Nuclear Medicine Specialists 2016.

Tom is the Queensland Clinical Director of Lumus Imaging for Nuclear Medicine and PET.  As a leader in both public and private sectors, Tom also serves as Senior Staff Specialist at the Gold Coast University Hospital. He plays a pivotal role as the lead radiology presenter for gastrointestinal, pulmonary, haematological and prostate tumour Multidisciplinary Teams (MDTs), ensuring optimal patient care.

TOPIC: Update Functional Imaging & Cancer Advances
PRESENTER: Dr Michelle Morris – Coastal Cancer Care

Dr Michelle Morris graduated from the University of Queensland in 1994 and underwent training in Medical Oncology at the Royal Brisbane Hospital and Princess Alexandra Hospital in Brisbane. She also completed further studies to obtain a Masters in Public Health from the University of Queensland.

Dr Morris worked as a Medical Oncologist for Cancer Research UK in Leeds, before returning to Australia in 2005 to take up a consultant position at Nambour General Hospital. Since then, she has consulted at Nambour General Hospital, Gympie Hospital and currently holds a Staff Specialist position at the Sunshine Coast University Hospital. She has worked in private practice on the Sunshine Coast since 2007, and relocated her practice to Birtinya in 2014.

Dr Morris has experience in treating a broad range of solid tumour malignancies, with areas of interest including breast cancer, melanoma, gynaecological and urological malignancies. She has been active in improving cancer clinical trial access for both public and private patients on the Sunshine Coast and promoting quality, multidisciplinary care.

Dr Morris consults at both Sunshine Coast University Private Hospital and Noosa Hospital.

TOPIC: Update Functional Imaging & Cancer Advances
PRESENTER: Dr Jeremy Long – Coastal Cancer Care

Dr Jeremy Long graduated from the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa in 1985.

After 2 years in the Military as a Lieutenant, he specialised as a general physician and received his Fellow of College of Physicians in 1992 and qualified as a specialist Haemato-Oncologist in 1994. He continued to work as a Specialist in South Africa until 1996, and then emigrated to New Zealand where he worked at Auckland Hospital, then Waikato Hospital and in 1999 received his FRACP (Medical Oncology).

Dr Long was Director of the Regional Cancer Centre for the Waikato District Health Board in New Zealand from 2002 to 2008.
He arrived in in Nambour in 2008 and then, following Dr Michelle Morris, became the Director of Cancer Care Services for the Sunshine Coast Hospital and Health Service from 2010 to 2020.

Dr Long is an active member of Multi-Disciplinary Teams (MDT) groups including; Lung, Urology, Breast at Sunshine Coast University Hospital (SCUH) and the Breast MDT at Buderim Private and General MDT at Sunshine Coast University Private Hospital (SCUPH).

His special interests include lung cancer, urological cancers and breast cancer.

Time

February 27, 2025 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm(GMT+10:00)

Location

Maroochydore Surf Club

34/36 Alexandra Parade, Maroochydore QLD 4558

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Acknowledgement

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CCQ acknowledges the traditional Custodians of the land on which we work and live, and recognises their continuing connection to land, waters and community. We pay our respect to them and their cultures; and to Elders past, present and emerging.