Dr Amitesh Roy

Academic Status

College of Medicine and Public Health

place Flinders Centre for Innovation in Cancer
GPO Box 2100, Adelaide 5001, South Australia

Associate Professor Amitesh C Roy is a senior medical oncologist at Flinders Centre For Innovation in cancer, Flinders Medical Centre. He has completed his specialist training in Medical Oncology at the tertiary care centres in Adelaide. During his fellowship year he has worked as a senior clinical research fellow in the Gastrointestinal Cancer Trials Unit at the Royal Marsden Hospital, UK. His clinical interests include management of gastrointestinal, hepato-pancreatic, neuro-endocrine, melanoma and lung malignancies. Research experience gained within the GI & Lymphoma research unit at the Royal Marsden Hospital and Institute of Cancer Research has provided him with invaluable exposure to clinical and translational research. Additionally he is involved in various clinical and translational research projects within the clinical trials unit at the Dept. of Medical Oncology at the Flinders Centre for Innovation in Cancer. He is a current member of the AGITG upper GI and MOGA SAC, MASC and is a lead researcher in several investigator initiated cooperative clinical trials. He has coauthored > 80 peer reviewed publications, conference abstracts, guidline documents and book chapters.

Qualifications

MD

FRACP

MSc (Edin)

AFRACMA

Honours, awards and grants
  • MSc- Passed with distinction
  • Fellowship award- ACORD Workshop in Methods of Clinical Cancer Research, 2010
Key responsibilities
Medical Oncologist, Department of Medical Oncology, Flinders Medical Centre, Southern Area Health Service
Teaching interests
  • Cancer Treatment
  • Research Methodology
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