Riverina Melanoma Multidisciplinary Team
- Services
- Team
- Contact and Meeting Times
Services
A multidisciplinary team of specialists, nurses and allied health professionals providing specialist care in the treatment of melanoma cancer. This team has regular multidisciplinary care team meetings where specialists can present patient cases for multidisciplinary discussion of all available treatment options.
The multidisciplinary team meeting is run out of the Riverina Cancer Care Centre with both public and private patients discussed. The surgeons, medical oncologists and radiation oncologists consult and treat both public and private patients, thus refer all of these patients for discussion at the melanoma multidisciplinary team meetings.
Access to services such as physiotherapy, dietetics, occupational therapy and speech pathology can be facilitated by the local oncology unit and/or the cancer care coordinator or oncology social worker contact: Wagga Community Health Centre, Ph: (02) 6938 6411, Fax: (02) 6938 6410.
To contact the Multidisciplinary Team Coordinator, contact the Riverina Cancer Care Centre on (02) 6932 1000.Multidisciplinary Team
This team comprises of the following cancer specialists and allied health professionals.
- Dr David Palmieri
Chairperson / Medical Oncologist - Dr Stephen Jancewicz
General Surgeon - Dr Henry Hicks
General Surgeon - Dr Richard Harrison
General Surgeon - Dr Nicholas Williams
General Surgeon - Dr Andrew Thompson
General Surgeon - Dr David Littlejohn
General Surgeon - Dr Irene Grigoris
Dermatalogist - Dr John Mackay
Dermatalogist - Dr Jane Hill
Medical Oncologist - Dr Renuka Chittajallu
Medical Oncologist - Dr Chloe Khoo
Medical Oncologist - Dr Sangeetha Ramanujam
Medical Oncologist - Dr Anupam Chaudhuri
Radiation Oncologist - Dr Michael Izard
Radiation Oncologist - Dr Noel Aherne
Radiation Oncologist
This MDT may also draw expertise from professionals specialising in the following roles as required on a case-by-case basis.
- Clinical Trials Nurse
- Genetic Counsellor
- Pathologist
- Radiologist
- Social Worker
- Dr David Palmieri
Contact and Meeting Times
Meeting times
Thursday every four weeks.Riverina Cancer Care Centre
31 Meurant Avenue
Wagga Wagga NSW 2650- Telephone
(02) 6932 1000 - Fax
(02) 6925 4848 - Email
riverina - at - riverinacancercare.com.au - Web
www.riverinacancercare.com.au
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