Dr Steven Leibman
Founder and director of the Swallow Foundation
A/Prof Garett Smith
Founder and director of the Swallow Foundation
Francina Wade
Founder of OSCA
The upper gastrointestinal Cancer Multidisciplinary Team
SURGEONS
Dr Steven Leibman
A/Prof Garett Smith
MEDICAL ONCOLOGISTS
A/Prof Nick Pavlakis
Prof Stephen Clarke
A/Prof Alex Guminski
Radiation Oncologist
A/Prof Andrew Kneebone
Cancer Nurse Coordinator
RADIOLOGISTS
James Christie
Alan Gunn
Upper Gastrointestinal fellow
Clinical trials team
Sally Mc Cowatt Manager
ANAESTHETISTS
Brad Fawkes
Marty Bohm
Pathologists
Bob Eckstein
Anthony Gill
Clinical psychologist
Carolyn Howard
Katherine Hodgkinson
DIETICIANS
Sadie Younan
Zoe Wilson
RNSH’s dietician
Nuclear Medicine physicians
Sharon Hain
Alan Lee
Clinical Nurse Consultants
Meredith Oatley RNSH
Helen Blackburn NSPH
Nurse Unit Managers
Royal North Shore Hospital
Fiona Carmichael
Caryn Fowler
Margie Webster
North Shore Private
Geraldine Grant
Cathy Madden
Treatment locations
Consultation and treatment under the care of the Upper Gastrointestinal Multidisciplinary can be done as a public or private patient. A Gastrointestinal Multidisciplinary Clinic is held every Thursday afternoon at the Northern Sydney Cancer Centre, Royal North Shore Hospital where newly diagnosed oesophageal and stomach cancer patients attend to consult with specialists and arrange treatment. Chemotherapy can be arranged to be given as an inpatient at either Royal North Shore Hospital or North Shore Private Hospital and as an outpatient at either Royal North Shore Hospital or one of the two Northern Cancer Institute sites at St Leonards or Frenchs Forest. Radiotherapy treatment is provided at Royal North Shore Hospital. Surgery is performed at either Royal North Shore Hospital or North Shore Private.
