Managing oral TKIs in clinical practice / the role of the TKI nurse

Associate Professor Alex Guminski

Associate Professor Alex Guminski is a widely experienced medical oncologist. He has special interest in prostate cancer, renal cancer, bladder cancer, testicular cancer, advanced non-melanoma skin cancers and head and neck cancer. Alex trained in medical oncology and completed a PhD at Sydney University, followed by post-doctoral research and clinical experience in Oxford, UK.

Committed to research, he is actively involved in oncology trials and is a co-author on registration trials examining systemic therapies for advanced basal cell carcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma. He is a stream lead at the NorthStar VNP trial for head and neck, non-melanoma skin, sarcoma and genitourinary cancers. Alex is a senior staff specialist at Royal North Shore Hospital, an associate professor of medicine at the University of Sydney Northern Clinical School, and an adjunct research fellow at the Kolling Institute in Sydney.

Meredith Oatley

Medical Oncology Nurse Practitioner, Northern Sydney Cancer Centre

Meredith Oatley is an experienced Medical Oncology Nurse Practitioner working in the Northern Sydney Cancer centre at Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney. Meredith has worked for 25 years in medical oncology within the Northern Sydney Local Health District . For the last seven years Meredith has worked as a nurse practitioner running speciality outpatient clinics at the Northern Sydney Cancer Centre at Royal North Shore Hospital. Meredith is committed to nursing research & improving the patient experience and has researched and implemented models of care that have been transformative in operations within the NSCC. Currently Meredith is leading a project on survivorship and developing a survivorship care plan and resources for patients receiving cancer treatment within the Northern Sydney Local Health district.