Lung Cancer & Mesothelioma
Scientific Board and Contributors
Eric Lim
United Kingdom
Professor Eric Lim is a thoracic surgeon at the Royal Brompton Hospital. He Chaired and co-authored numerous lung cancer guidelines for Europe and the UK, leading on numerous thoracic surgical trials and recipient of the IASLC Ginsberg Lectureship Award.
Suresh Senan
Netherlands
Professor Suresh Senan is a radiation oncologist at Amsterdam University Medical Centers in the Netherlands. An active guidelines author on radiation oncology and recipient of the H. Hansen Award for contributions to lung cancer care by ESMO and IASLC.
Ross Camidge
United States of America
Professor Ross Camidge is a medical oncologist, Director of Thoracic Oncology and Joyce Zeff Endowed Chair in Lung Cancer Research at the University of Colorado Cancer Centre and recipient of the Bonnie J. Addario Lung Cancer Foundation’s International Lectureship Award and A Breath Away From The Cure award.
Dean Fennell
United Kingdom
Professor Dean Fennell is a medical oncologist, and chair of thoracic medical oncology at the University of Leicester. He served as President of the International Mesothelioma Interest Group, and leads a translational research laboratory and numerous clinical trials for mesothelioma.
Isabelle Opitz
Switzerland
Professor Isabelle Opitz is a thoracic surgeon, director of thoracic surgery at the University Hospital Zurich and chair of the Lung Cancer Center in Zurich. She has Chaired and co-authored numerous European and international guidelines for mesothelioma.
Daniel Gomez
United States of America
Dr Daniel Gomez is a radiation oncologist at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York. He published multiple clinical trials and translational studies in thoracic cancer and led the first report on the benefit of local ablative therapy in the setting of oligometastatic lung cancer.
*Dr Gomez is contributing his expertise in a personal capacity
Anna Nowak
Australia
Professor Anna Nowak is a medical oncologist at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital in Perth, and Pro Vice-Chancellor at the University of Western Australia. She is the Director of the National Centre for Asbestos-Related Diseases (NCARD), a National Health & Medical Research Council Centre for Research Excellence based in Perth.
Simon Bolton
United Kingdom
Mr Simon Bolton is a clinical nurse specialist associated with Mesothelioma UK who established the Mesothelioma Support Yorkshire group. He has a keen interest in patient advocacy and working to reduce barriers faced by mesothelioma patients in accessing clinical trials.
Mavis Nye
United Kingdom
Mrs Mavis Nye is a patient with mesothelioma and a patient advocate. She is the President of the Mavis Nye Foundation, a charitable foundation to inspire those who are affected by mesothelioma.
Pippa Labuc
Australia
Ms Pippa Labuc is an occupational therapist working in cancer care for 10 years. She works with patients throughout their cancer pathway, from diagnosis to end-of-life care, with a focus on cancer rehabilitation, symptom management and survivorship, to help optimise their performance status and quality of life.
Louise Malone
United Kingdom
Louise Malone is an award-winning Consultant Physiotherapist and Expert Practitioner in Oncology Care. She has over 15 years of Oncology experience working in leading NHS and Private London cancer hospitals. She is especially skilled in post-operative scar tissue management and prescribing exercise programmes for treatment-related fatigue/deconditioning.
Lisa Dvorjetz
United Kingdom
Dr Lisa Dvorjetz is a counselling psychologist that has been working over the past ten years within the field of oncology and palliative care. Her work with cancer patients and their families involves providing psychological support to explore the emotional impact that cancer can have in people's lives at diagnosis, treatment and end-of-life stages. She has a particular interest in supporting people to find meaning and purpose in their lives no matter what the cancer circumstances may be.
Annette Goldberg
United States
Annette Goldberg MBA, MS, RD is the founder of Nourish4, a Boston-based private practice that focuses on the four pillars that are the basis of a healthy lifestyle: Nutrition, Exercise, Sleep and Emotional Well-being. She is an active member of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine. She is a member of the nutrition team at The Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston as a Senior Clinical Nutritionist.
Christina Gullberg
United Kingdom
Christina Gullberg (MSc, BSc, RN) is a Senior Clinical Nurse Specialist in Pain Management at The Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals in London. Christina is the current Secretary of the Pain Nurse Network, a network of national and international pain nurse specialists, providing education, and sharing knowledge and experience to enhance pain management for patients.
Lizz Clarke
Australia
Ms Lizz Clarke is a Registered Nurse who works for a consumer organisation ‘Reflections Through Reality’ as the Support Network Coordinator assisting individuals and families affected by asbestos-related diseases and mesothelioma. Lizz intersects her professional and lived experience to provide a unique-in-depth understanding of the needs of individuals, family, and friends. And remind them there is still laughter and joy to be found on the path ahead.
Mindy Hadi
United Kingdom
Mindy Hadi is an occupational psychologist who specialises in people-centred design and public engagement and is a patient with mesothelioma. As a patient reviewer for My Cancer Companion, she is able to use her expertise to advise on the website content so that patients can easily understand and access the latest news and research on their condition to empower them to actively engage with their care’.
Lynn Shedden
United Kingdom
Ms Lynn Shedden (RGN/RMN, MSc Cardiorespiratory Nursing) works as a Specialist Supportive and Palliative Care Clinical Nurse Specialist at The Royal Brompton Hospital. She has had over 25 years of wealth of experience and in the last 5 years, she has specialised in Palliative care medicine, managing patients’ symptoms through excellent end-of-life care.
Hannah Leach
United Kingdom
Hannah Leach is a chartered physiotherapist who highly specialised in oncology and palliative care.
Through years of experience, Hannah understands the physical and psychological impact cancer has. She supports people to manage the physical symptoms of cancer and take back control in their life.
Hazel O’Sullivan
United Kingdom
Dr Hazel O'Sullivan is a medical oncologist with a special interest in lung cancer and oncogenetics. She holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Trials and a Postgraduate Certificate in Cancer Genetics. She has completed a clinical research fellowship in oncogenetics and gynae-oncology and is currently a thoracic oncology clinical research fellow at the Royal Marsden NHS Trust.
Catherine Granger
Australia
Associate Professor Catherine Granger is a physiotherapist and clinician scientist at The University of Melbourne and The Royal Melbourne Hospital in Australia. Her expertise is in physical activity and exercise rehabilitation for people with cancer and respiratory conditions. She has published over 100 scientific papers.
Lizza Hendriks
The Netherlands
Dr Lizza Hendriks is a pulmonologist specialising in lung cancer at Maastricht University Medical Center, where she leads the clinical lung cancer research department. Her main interest is in brain metastases in patients with lung cancer, obtaining a PhD on this topic in 2016.
Sophie Robson
Australia
Sophie Robson is a clinical nurse specialist working in cancer nursing for over 10 years including 5 years specialising in lung cancer. She holds a Masters in Advanced Nursing Practice and combines this with extensive experience in lung cancer treatments to support patients in the management of treatment and disease-related symptoms along with providing holistic support to improve patient wellbeing.
Jonathan Spicer
Canada
Dr Jonathan Spicer is an Associate Professor of Surgery at McGill University, where he is the medical director of the McGill University Health Center Thoracic Oncology Network. He is the program director for the McGill Advanced Thoracic and Upper GI Surgical Oncology Fellowship. In addition, Dr Spicer is the research chair for the Canadian Association of Thoracic Surgeons and director of the Canadian Cancer Trials Mesothelioma Working Group.
Virginie Westeel
France
Professor Virginie Westeel is a pulmonologist and thoracic oncologist at the University Hospital of Besançon, France. She chairs the Cochrane Lung Cancer Review Group. She is the president of the Intergroupe Francophone de Cancérologie Thoracique and led the first large multicentre randomized trial on the follow-up after surgery for lung cancer conducted to date, for which she received the IASLC Robert Ginsberg Merit Award in 2013.
Bob Li
United States of America
Dr Bob Li is a Medical Oncologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and Associate Professor of Medicine at Cornell University, New York. He specializes in precision cancer medicine and has led pivotal international clinical trials that led to FDA approvals of the first KRAS and HER2 targeted therapies for patients with lung cancer.
*Dr Li is contributing his expertise in a personal capacity
Si-Yang Liu
People’s Republic of China
Dr Liu is an attending Thoracic Surgeon at Guangdong Lung Cancer Institute, Guandong Provincial People's Hospital, Guangzhou. She currently works as a visiting investigator at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center through CTONG -MSK collaboration programme. She has committed to applying adjuvant targeted therapy based on genomic signature and promoting precision medicine to the perioperative treatment.
*Dr Liu is contributing his expertise in a personal capacity