GlaxoSmithKline Annual Scientific Meeting 2008 Travel Awards
This is an award for thirty Advanced Trainees in medical oncology to attend the Medical Oncology Group of Australia Annual Scientific Meeting 2008 in Christchurch, New Zealand
Award Recipients
- Dr Mahmood Alam
- Dr Sayed Ali
- Dr Sumitra Ananda
- Dr Patricia Bastick
- Dr Prunella Blinman
- Dr Victoria Bray
- Dr Fiona Chionh
- Dr Fiona Day
- Dr Rachel Dear
- Dr Bianca Devitt
- Dr Sandra Harvey
- Dr Baerin Houghton
- Dr Andrew Kiberu
- Dr Chee Khoon Lee
- Dr Melissa Moore
- Dr Meena Okera
- Dr Carmel Pezaro
- Dr Simone Steel
- Dr Min-Ne Wu
- Dr Po Yee Yip
GlaxoSmithKline Travel Award
$5,000 for one consultant medical oncologist, who is a financial, ordinary member of the Medical Oncology Group of Australia to attend an international meeting
Previous Award Recipient
Dr Tom John
Dr Tom John, a Medical Oncologist at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research in Victoria, was awarded the Medical Oncology Group of Australia-GlaxoSmithKline Travel Award 2007.
Dr John utilised his award to attend the American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting in Chicago USA in June this year and presented details of his research findings in an abstract titled: Predicting clinical outcome through gene expression profiling in Stage III Melanoma.
Dr John also recently delivered a special presentation on his research activities at the Annual MOGA Dinner, sponsored by GlaxoSmithKline that was held in Adelaide on 14 November in conjunction with the COSA Annual Scientific Meeting.
Dr John is a graduate of Monash University where he undertook his Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery graduating in 1996 and was admitted as a Fellow of the Royal Australian College of Physicians on 2005. In 2007 he received a Merit award from the American Society for Clinical Oncology and was invited to give an oral presentation at this major international meeting.
