VICS Optimal Care Summits colorectal cancer consultation 2024–25
The VICS Optimal Care Summits’ third strategic consultation on colorectal cancer will run from late 2024 to early 2025.
The expert advisory group below will review progress in colorectal cancer care and outcomes for Victorians affected by colorectal cancer since our second summit on this topic, in 2018. The VICS will survey clinicians and other stakeholders across Victoria about barriers to and enablers of optimal care, and identify unwarranted variations in care and outcomes in Victoria.
At a live summit event on Friday 28 February 2025, multidisciplinary clinicians, consumers, and other stakeholders will codesign actions to address priority variations.
If you are involved in care or support for Victorians affected by colorectal cancer, or if you have been affected yourself, please fill in this quick form to be involved in the consultation.
The information you provide will be used only by the VICS Optimal Care Summits team for recruiting each expert advisory group, consultation, surveys, prioritising variations, prioritising improvements, and summit invitations.
VICS Optimal Care Summits
Expert advisory group
- Dr Geoff Chong (Co-chair) – Medical oncologist, Austin Health
- Dr Simon Hyde (Co-chair) – Director Gynaecological Oncology, Mercy Hospital for Women
- Mr William Teoh (Co-chair) – Colorectal surgeon, Monash Health
- Mei Mei Ang – Gastrointestinal (colorectal) cancer nurse consultant, Alfred Health
- Dr Louise Bettiol – General practitioner and GP Clinical Director, LMICS
- Dr Bradley Bidwell – General surgeon and Clinical Director of Surgery, Northeast Health Wangaratta
- Dr Stephen Brown – Medical oncologist and Clinical Director of Medical Oncology, Grampians Health
- Dr Pranav Dorwal – Molecular anatomical pathologist, Monash Health
- Mr Alexander Heriot – Surgeon and Director of Cancer Surgery, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
- Belinda Johnston – Dietitian, Austin Health
- Dr Sachin Joshi – Medical oncologist, Latrobe Regional Hospital
- Kylie Leavy – Stomal therapy nurse, Monash Health
- Prof. Sue-Anne McLachlan – Medical oncologist, St Vincent’s Hospital
- Dr Ayesha Saqib – Colorectal oncologist, Goulburn Valley Health
- Dr Madhu Singh – Colorectal oncologist, Barwon Health
- Mr Neil Strugnell – Colorectal surgery consultant, Northern Health
- Dr Neetu Tejani – Radiation oncologist, Bendigo Health.
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