TRW Workshop Speakers

LIVERPOOL HOSPITAL

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Sankar is a Senior Medical Physicist at Liverpool and Macarthur Cancer Therapy Centres in Sydney. His work focuses on developing and implementing innovative, cost-effective radiotherapy technologies to improve cancer treatment outcomes. He has led multiple clinical translation projects, with current research centred on motion-compensated radiotherapy, adaptive planning strategies, and enhancing radiotherapy delivery using general-purpose linear accelerators.

OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN CANCER CENTRE

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Jenna is the Senior Research Radiation Therapist at the Olivia Newton-John Cancer Centre in Melbourne. Her interests include person centered care, research, breast radiotherapy techniques, imaging – particularly MR in RT, particle therapy, CrossFit, travel and photography. She holds a Breast Cancer Trials Clinical Fellowship position for her PhD study OPRAH MRL, which is exploring the optimisation of patient positioning for accelerated partial breast irradiation to be delivered on the MR Linac. She was the 2025 Varian Award recipient and is an active member of the RANZCR Targeting Cancer reference panel and is passionate about raising the profile of Radiotherapy as a cancer treatment, the need for access to clinical trials to improve practice and outcomes and making sure that patients that would benefit from this treatment have the option to receive it. 

ROYAL ADELAIDE HOSPITAL & UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA

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Michael Douglass is a Principal Medical Physicist at the Royal Adelaide Hospital and an Associate Professor at the University of South Australia, holding a PhD in Physics from the University of Adelaide. His professional expertise encompasses proton therapy, artificial intelligence in healthcare, and advanced treatment planning, earning him the 2024 South Australian Premier's Excellence Award for Excellence in Service Delivery. Additionally, he integrates his technical proficiency in Python and Blender to create innovative solutions for medical physics research and scientific visualization.

LIVERPOOL HOSPITAL AND INGHAM INSTITUTE

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Lois leads the medical physics research group at the Ingham Institute and Liverpool and Macarthur Cancer Therapy centres. Together with her team she is working to develop tools to ensure radiation oncology is as impactful as possible to improve patient outcomes and experiences. This work is primarily focused on accessing and learning from data, especially 3D radiation oncology data.

MIDCENTRAL – HEALTH NEW ZEALAND

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Iordan Kostourkov is a Senior Physicist at MidCentral Health in Palmerston North, New Zealand. Over the past 25 years — beginning in Bulgaria and continuing in New Zealand — he has enjoyed tackling clinical physics challenges to improve the accuracy of radiotherapy treatments. He is actively involved in the SBRT program in Palmerston North.

CALVARY MATER NEWCASTLE

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Professor Joerg Lehmann is an accredited Radiation Oncology Medical Physicist. He works at Calvary Mater Newcastle as Lead Medical Physicist for Research. His research interests include dosimetry, quality assurance, image guidance for radiotherapy treatments and data mining.

Joerg is a member of the several international working groups, including a joint task group of the American Association of Medical Physics (AAPM) and the European Society for Radiotherapy and Oncology (ESTRO) on “Performance validation of surrogate assessment systems in the context of medical physics applications (TG 360)”. He is member of the AAPM Global Research and Scientific Innovation Committee and Chair of the Global Clinical Trials Subcommittee.

Joerg is active in radiotherapy dosimetry audits, he works as quality assurance (QA) physicist for TROG and he has served as chair of the Global Quality Assurance of Radiation Therapy Clinical Trials Harmonisation Group (GHG), a collaborative group of international Radiation Therapy Quality Assurance (RTQA) Groups harmonizing and improving RTQA for multi-institutional clinical trials.

As an acknowledged expert in clinical dosimetry in Australia, Joerg serves on the Radiation Dosimetry Advisory Group of the Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency (ARPANSA) and the Australasian College of Physical Sciences and Engineering in Medicine (ACPSEM).

AUCKLAND RADIATION ONCOLOGY

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Associate Professor Giuseppe (Peppe) Sasso is an experienced radiation oncologist, with a high volume and patient-centred private and public practice in Auckland and Dunedin.

He specialises in the treatment of genito-urinary, head & neck and breast cancers with highly precise radiotherapy techniques.

A/Prof Sasso is an internationally renowned expert in the treatment of prostate cancer with CyberKnife.

Peppe has extensive experience in Stereotactic Ablative Radiotherapy (SABR) and pioneered its adoption in New Zealand for treatment of prostate and kidney cancers and early-metastatic malignancies (oligo-metastases) to spine, liver, kidney, adrenal, pancreas, lymph nodes, bone, brain and lung.

A/Prof Sasso is a Fellow of the Faculty of Radiation Oncology of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists (RANZCR) and Associate Professor at the Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences of the University of Auckland; and Honorary Academic at the School of Medicine of the University of Brescia (Italy).

Prior to moving to New Zealand 15 years ago, Peppe has worked for over a decade in world-class cancer centres in Italy, UK, Australia, UAE (with Johns Hopkins Medicine International) and France. He was Director of the Radiation Oncology Department at Auckland City Hospital from 2010 to 2020, President of the Board of Directors of TROG Cancer Research and Chairman of the New Zealand Ministry of Health Radiation Oncology Working Group.

He is fluent in English, Spanish, French and Italian.

ICON CANCER CENTRE - GOLD COAST

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After completing a PhD in Medical Physics, John trained as a clinical medical physicist in the UK. In 2010, he relocated to Australia and has worked in Darwin, Brisbane and the Gold Coast.

ILLAWARRA–SHOALHAVEN CANCER NETWORK

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After graduating from the University of South Australia in 2013 with a Bachelor of Medical Science (Radiation Therapy), I began my clinical career in Launceston before moving to the Illawarra–Shoalhaven Cancer Network in late 2014. I have been an integral member of the Wollongong clinical trials team, leading radiation therapy involvement in the NINJA trial, and contributing to research in motion management. In 2025, I was awarded Best RT Poster at ASMIRT for my poster on "real-time imaging for prostate intrafraction motion in moderately hypofractionated radiotherapy".

LIVERPOOL/CAMPBELTOWN CANCER THERAPY CENTRES

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Fahim is a Radiation Therapist at the Liverpool/Campbeltown Cancer Therapy Centres in Southwest Sydney. He graduated from the University of Newcastle in 2010 and has been awarded a Master in Advance Radiation Therapy practice from Monash University in 2020. He is a keen advocate for implementation of advance radiation therapy techniques and equity and quality in Radiotherapy delivery.

CHRISTCHURCH HOSPITAL

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Gemma Warner is a principal physicist at Christchurch Hospital, Te Whatu Ora. Gemma has over 20 years of clinical experience working as a radiation physicist both in the UK and in New Zealand. She is a member of the Christchurch radiation oncology research and development steering group which oversee treatment technique improvements and clinical trial implementation.

NSW HEALTH

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Dean is a medical physicist at the Illawarra Cancer Care Centre in Wollongong. He is passionate about advancing radiotherapy through clinical trials and bringing new techniques and technologies safely and effectively into clinical practice.

PETER MACCALLUM CANCER CENTRE

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Katrina is the Lead Radiation Therapist Clinician Scientist at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre where she oversees the radiation therapy research portfolio across their five campuses. Prior to this she led the Stereotactic Team at The Alfred Hospital where she worked for 15 years. In 2022, she was awarded a PhD through Monash University in the area of SABR for lung cancer. Dr. Woodford represents ASMIRT as the RT representative on the TROG Scientific Committee and on the Clinical Advisory Group for the Australian Clinical Dosimetry Service within ARPANSA.

PETER MACCALLUM CANCER CENTRE

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Dr Adam Yeo is SABR & Proton Lead Medical Physicist in Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, with a half (0.5FTE) of his clinical role leading SABR service and the other half with R&D activities focusing on making proton beam therapy ready in Victoria. Adam is heavily involved in a wide range of special interest groups and working groups committees TROG trial activities. He has particular interests in clinical implementation of advanced imaging and new treatment techniques & technologies.