The latest
Recent projects that are completed:
- Process mining for healthcare cost: Toward value-based care using cost mining: cost aggregation and visualization across the entire colorectal cancer patient pathway
- Colorectal cancer cost in Australia: Effects of clinical and socioeconomic factors on Medicare and patient costs for colorectal cancer in Australia: a retrospective multivariate regression analysis
- PRIMCAT-CRC simulation model: Predicting the Population Health Economic Impact of Current and New Cancer Treatments for Colorectal Cancer: A Data-Driven Whole Disease Simulation Model for Predicting the Number of Patients with Colorectal Cancer by Stage and Treatment Line in Australia
- Competing risk in DES methodology: Implementing competing risks in discrete event simulation: the event-specific probabilities and distributions approach
- NSCLC treatment patterns: Real-World Treatment and Outcomes in ALK-Rearranged NSCLC: Results From a Large U.S.-Based Database
What is coming up?
Current projects that I am finalising, i.e. almost there:
- TORCH-VIC: State-wide Victorian linked dataset for cancer research, cohort profile
- PRIMCAT-MEL: Whole disease model for melanoma, using TORCH-VIC & clinical registry data
- PRIMCAT-LUNG: Whole disease model for non-small cell lung cancer, using TORCH-VIC & clinical registry data
- Distance travelled methodology: Comparing different methods of calculating travel distance from residence to place of care using TORCH-VIC
- Distance travelled for care: Radiotherapy is a cornerstone of cancer treatment, but how much do patients travel around Victoria to receive their care?
- Consumer-led research: Developped a model with consumers to establish a real consumer-led research project: what has (not) worked, how, and what to do next!
Presentations
Selected work that I have presented at scientific meetings.
- Research REWRITTEN Real World Evidence and Cancer Treatment, 2024 in Melbourne Australia. Invited speaker ‘PRIMCAT and the use of MBS and PBS data’
- International Society of Oncology Pharmacy Practitioners, 2024 in Melbourne Australia. Invited speaker ‘PRIMCAT: A novel approach to informing Health Technology Assessment decision making in Australia’
- Medicines of Tomorrow: The First Horizon Scanning Forum, 2023 in Canberra Australia. Invited speaker ‘Case study of horizon scanning in Australia and PRIMCAT overview’
- Clinical Oncology Society of Australia (COSA) 50th Annual Scientific Meeting, 2023 Melbourne Australia. Oral presentation ‘Treatment patterns in Victoria across three cancers: an in-depth analysis’
- Clinical Oncology Society of Australia (COSA) 50th Annual Scientific Meeting, 2023 Melbourne Australia. Oral presentation ‘Forecasting the future impact of novel therapies on cancer treatment in Australia’
- European Society of Medical Oncology (ESMO) Annual Congress, 2023 Madrid Spain. Oral presentation ‘PRIMCAT: A novel approach to informing Health Technology Assessment decision making in Australia’
- Clinical Oncology Society of Australia (COSA) 48th Annual Scientific Meeting, 2023 virtual conference Australia. Oral presentation ‘Budget impact modelling for listing new cancer treatments in different cancer stages using real-world data’ Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre Alliance Research Conference, 2023 Melbourne Australia. Oral presentation ‘PRIMCAT-MEL: A novel approach to informing Health Technology Assessment decision making for melanoma in Australia’
- R for HTA annual workshop, 2021 virtual conference United Kingdom. Oral presentation ‘Fantastic data and where to scrape them’
- 8th Australia Lung Cancer Conference, 2020 Melbourne Australia. Oral presentation ‘Patterns of care in never-smokers versus smokers in the treatment of lung cancer’
- International Congress of Immunology, 2016 Melbourne Australia. Oral presentation ‘Dysregulated repair processes in inflammation and colorectal cancer; pathogenic regulatory T cells to blame?’
- Cancer Research UK Annual Symposium, 2016 London United Kingdom. Oral presentation ’Sox4 in colorectal cancer and metastatic disease: a key player in invasiveness?’
Publications
Full publication list is on Google Scholar.
Some highlights:
The manuscript that I most enjoyed so far: Competing risks implementation
The manuscript that took me forever to finish & write: The PRIMCAT-CRC model
The manuscript that I am most proud of as a supervisor: Leveraging the potential for deintensification in cancer care