Welcome to the GILEAD Sponsored Lunch Symposium
Advances and Opportunities in Triple Negative Metastatic Breast Cancer.
This symposium is organised and convened by Breast Cancer Trials and an independent medical faculty. The content presented reflects the independent views and clinical expertise of the faculty and is intended for healthcare professional education only. The symposium is sponsored by GILEAD Sciences.
The sponsor, however, has had no involvement or influence over the content, speaker selection, or presentation materials.
Meet Our Guest Speakers
We are pleased to introduce the following speakers at the Gilead-sponsored Lunch Symposium.
Rachel Dear
Conference Guest Speaker
Rachel Dear
Conference Guest Speaker
Dr Rachel Dear MBBS (Hons I), PhD, FRACP is a senior staff specialist and medical oncologist at The Kinghorn Cancer Centre, St Vincent's Hospital Sydney, where she has been dedicated to the care of breast cancer patients for over a decade.
An Associate Professor at UNSW Sydney, Dr Dear’s research focuses on breast cancer dormancy and plasticity, bone health, and the impact of bone fractures on cancer recurrence.
She is deeply committed to advancing patient care and improving quality of life. In partnership with the Garvan Institute of Medical Research, she leads investigator-initiated clinical trials and brings significant expertise as a principal investigator on numerous industry-sponsored studies.
Rachel was awarded her medical degree with first-class honors from the University of New South Wales in 2001 and completed junior medical officer and basic physician’s training at St Vincent’s in 2005.
She then undertook advanced medical oncology training at Westmead Hospital and, in 2008 she became a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians.
In 2012, Rachel was awarded a PhD which was based around the optimisation of doctor-patient communication.
She has extensive experience as an investigator of a number of national and international breast cancer clinical trials.
Fran Boyle
Symposium Guest Speaker
Fran Boyle
Symposium Guest Speaker
Professor Fran Boyle AM is a highly experienced medical oncologist who specialises in the areas of breast cancer and melanoma. She is passionate about making advances in this field and her practice focuses on researching new treatments as well as developing care and communication.
Prof Fran Boyle is a medical oncologist at North Sydney’s Mater Hospital where she is Director of the Patricia Ritchie Centre for Cancer Care and Research. She is also a professor at the University of Sydney where she is heavily involved in structuring the medical oncology teaching program.
For over 20 years, Fran has been involved in setting up clinical trials, supportive care and psychosocial research in breast cancer. She has previously chaired the Board of Breast Cancer Trials, and contributes to clinical trial development nationally and internationally through Breast Cancer Trials and the International Breast Cancer Study Group.
Fran’s dedication to improving the understanding of metastatic disease, improving access to new therapies, and involving breast care nurses in cancer care, led to her founding Australia’s Metastatic Breast Cancer Alliance.
In 2008, Fran was awarded Membership of the Order of Australia for her contributions to breast cancer research, education, policy and advocacy.