Conflicts of Interest in Medical Oncology
Webinar Series
Wednesday, 19 March 2025, 6.30pm AEDT | Online
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About:
We welcome you to join us for the inaugural session of the Medical Ethics webinar series, on the topic of 'Conflicts of Interest in Medical Oncology.' Prof Wendy Lipworth and Dr Lisa Parker will share their expertise on the definition and clinical implications of COIs, and how medical oncologists can identify and manage our COIs. Our panel, also including Prof John Zalcberg AO and Cancer Voices consumer representative Ms Karen van Gorp, will invite a lively Q&A to cap off the hour. The webinar will be chaired by Prof Michael Millward.
Please register, send through anonymous questions before the day, and volunteer your thoughts during the panel. This webinar contributes towards the new RACP mandatory CPD requirements, where two activities are required on ethics and professional behaviour.
MOGA Medical Ethics Commitee:
Ethical issues impact on all areas of our professional activities from dealings with industry, day to day patient care through to personal, professional views on complex issues such as voluntary assisted dying. The aim of this Sub-Committee is to improve outcomes for patients and clinicians through the application of ethical principles to oncology issues affecting clinical practice, research and education.
> Members
Dr Tam Bui (Chair)
Prof Clare Delaney
Dr Ehsan Shamsi Gooshki
Dr Bridget Haire
Dr Sarah Heynemann
Prof Linda Mileshkin
Prof Michael Millward
Dr Sharon Nahm
Dr Samuel Stevens
Program:
6.30pm Welcome – Prof Michael Millward
6.35pm Beyond artificial divides: a first principles approach to conflicts of interest in medicine - Prof Wendy Lipworth
6.50pm Patient groups interactions with pharmaceutical companies - Conflicts of interest? - Dr Lisa Parker
7.05pm Panel Discussion – Prof Michael Millward, Prof Wendy Lipworth, Dr Lisa Parker, Prof John Zalcberg AO and Ms Karen van Gorp
7.30pm Meeting close
Target Audience:
Medical oncologists, especially early career Young Oncologists and Advanced Trainees. Registration is open to MOGA members and non-members.
On completion of the webinar, participants can use the QR code to log this webinar as required CPD activities on ethics and professional behaviour.
Presenters/Panellists:
Prof Michael Millward
Professor of Clinical Cancer Research, University of Western Australia, Perth, WA
Michael Millward is the Inaugural Professor of Clinical Cancer Research at the University of Western Australia and also the Medical Director (Oncology) at Linear Clinical Research, Perth. His major current interest are early Phase clinical trials and molecular profiling of solid tumours. He completed a Bioethics degree at Monash University and has a long time interest in ethical issues.
Ms Karen van Gorp
BA(Psychology); Stage IV melanoma survivor; D/Chair Melanoma Patients Australia (MPA); Co-Chair, MPA CAG; Chair, Cancer Voices SA; Senior Policy Adviser - South Australian Business Chamber; and mother of three.
Diagnosed in 2011 with a primary melanoma progressing to Stage IV by 2013, Karen researched and was enrolled in a, subsequently successful, immunotherapy clinical trial. Karen then joined MPA working to have this treatment added to the PBS.
Karen sits on many boards, committees and trial teams both nationally and in SA. Additionally she is a facilitator for the Cancer Voices SA Survivors as Teachers program with the University of Adelaide Medical School and is a consumer member of the South Australian Cancer Clinical Network.
Karen works closely with members of the melanoma community enabling her to represent a wide variety of experiences.
Prof Wendy Lipworth
Wendy Lipworth (MBBS, PhD) is Professor of Bioethics in the Department of Philosophy, Macquarie University, Sydney. Her research sits at the intersection of ethics and epistemology, with a focus on the ethics of health innovation. She is particularly interested in devising ways to maintain and improve the rigour and integrity of research, policymaking and practice in the face of rapid scientific, commercial and socio-political change.
Wendy has received funding from the National Health and Medical Research Council, Australian Research Council and Medical Research Future Fund. She is a President of the Australasian Association of Bioethics and Health Law, Co-Director of the Macquarie University Ethics and Agency Research Centre and a member of the Committees of Brain Cancer Biobanking Australia and the Australian Ethical Health Alliance.
Prof John Zalcberg AO
MB BS, PhD, FRACP, FRACMA, FAHMS, FAICD
Professor of Cancer Medicine - Monash University (Emeritus) and University of Melbourne, Consultant Medical Oncologist - Alfred Health, Epworth Hospital and Cabrini Health, Board Member; ICON Group, PRAXIS and All.Can Australia
Professor Zalcberg's clinical areas of interests include gastrointestinal (GI) cancer, the diagnosis and management of patients with gastrointestinal tumours (GIST) and quality of care. He has published over 380 articles in peer-reviewed journals. He was the Principal Investigator for the EORTC advanced GIST trial in Australia and continues to be actively involved in trials in this disease, as well as other gastrointestinal cancers.
Professor Zalcberg is immediate, past Head of the Cancer Research Program in the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine at Monash University, and continues to provide academic leadership to a number of clinical quality registries. He held the inaugural Tony Charlton Chair in Cancer Research at the Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Australia until July 2023. Prior to taking up his most recent position in 2015, he was Director of the Division of Cancer Medicine at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre (Peter Mac) in Melbourne for 17 years and Chief Medical Officer at that institution for 5 years.
Professor Zalcberg was co-founder of the Lorne Cancer Conference and the Australasian Gastrointestinal Trials Group (AGITG), and has received several awards including a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM).
Dr Lisa Parker
Dr Lisa Parker is a bioethicist, medical practitioner and Clinical Associate Professor in the Sydney Medical School Northern Clinical School and the Charles Perkins Centre. Her research focus is critical evaluation of healthcare practice, policy and evidence. Dr Perkins uses qualitative research methods to explore threats to the integrity of our scientific evidence base and commercial influences over health policy and practice.
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