Dr Lyn Oliver AM PhD MSc FACPSEM FAIP
Medical Physics & Website Administration
Lyn is a retired medical physicist with 50 years of experience working in physics, engineering and biological sciences in medicine. Lyn was Director of Medical Physics at Northern Cancer Services, Royal North Shore Hospital (RNSH) for 20 years. The department worked as a test site for ‘better-healthcare-technology’ in radiation therapy. Better imaging and planning calculations were perfected during the 1990s and a world-first method, called ‘intensity-modulated-radiotherapy (IMRT), was clinically implemented in 2001. Dr Jeremy Booth has continued in conjunction with Professor Paul Keall, Sydney University. They recently completed a world-first successful clinical trial of elevating the patient’s prostate radiation dose using an image ‘tracking’ method. Lyn will continue to help and encourage R & D like this that reduces treatment complications and achieves better cure outcome.
Ms Lee Hunt
Education and Consumer Representative to Foundation, Website
Lee was diagnosed with Grade 3 breast cancer in 2005. Following surgery, she undertook an 18-month therapy program, including chemotherapy, radiation therapy and targeted therapy. However, she suffered a recurrence 13 years later requiring additional extensive surgery. She has had to manage several treatment related side-effects since her initial diagnosis of cancer.
Following a 40-year career in education, she joined Cancer Voices and is a member of the executive group. Her work also includes submitting support documentation for MSAC applications, coordination of the MBS submissions and input into the updates of the Clinical guidelines – Cancer Council Australia.
Lee is the consumer member of the Faculty of Radiation Oncology (RANZCR), the Targeting Cancer Management Committee and the Radiation Therapy Advisory Group. She supports various RANZCR College committees by ensuring documents are ‘consumers friendly’ and reflect the ongoing needs of cancer patients. She is a member of the Radiation Oncology Roundtable that meets with the Department of Health.
Cancer research is Lee’s passion, with her being a member of several cancer research projects. Her co-authored publications include: Cardiovascular toxicity of targeted therapies for cancer: a protocol for an overview of systematic reviews and Cancer Control in Chronic Care Nursing.
Lee has presented at many conferences and other fora, including the COSA Survivorship conference, the Australian Society for Medical Research NSW, RANZCR’s Annual Scientific Meeting and the National Particle Therapy Symposium. She has made presentations to early researchers at Cure Cancer, Sydney University and NSW Cancer Council.
A/Prof Joerg Lehmann PhD FAAPM
Radiotherapy & Photography
Joerg is an accredited Principal Medical Physicist engaged in the work of ‘Implementation and Development’ at the Department of Radiation Oncology, the Calvary Mater Hospital, Newcastle. I enjoy research and photography. The research involves developing techniques that accurately ‘targets’ what should be treated and avoids unnecessary damage to what should not be treated during the cancer patient’s radiotherapy (Better-Healthcare-Technology). To celebrate the joy and excitement of Medical Physics, Joerg has co-founded and manages a photography competition, called ‘Photography in Medical Physics’ (PiMP). Many of his photographs will appear in the betterhealthcaretechnology.org website.
Dr Jack Jellins AM PhD (Hon)MD
Ultrasound Imaging and Education
Jack started his ultrasound career in Sydney in the mid 1960s at a research laboratory that later became known as the Ultrasonics Institute (UI). With a team of scientists, engineers, and clinicians, UI became a world leader in displaying anatomy and disease processes. Jack led the research into breast, thyroid and scrotal imaging, and with high resolution ultrasound, the modality rapidly became an important clinical diagnostic tool. At the beginning of the 1990s, Jack established the International Breast Ultrasound School (IBUS) with colleagues in Europe. The IBUS Breast Imaging School as it is now known, has provided more than 120 courses to over 12,000 participants, and the School is recognized as the leading international provider of breast imaging courses. Jack now wishes to use this past research and education experience to help achieve the Foundation’s “betterhealthcaretechnology.org” vision.
Ms Anna Ralston MSc MACPSEM
Past ACPSEM Foundation Board Co-Chair
Radiation Therapy and Asia- Pacific Special Interest Group
Anna has 30 years’ research and clinical experience in Medical Physics in Canada, Germany and Australia. Having seen major improvements in radiotherapy over this time, Anna has now focussed on helping cancer patients in countries with fewer resources. Anna believes the best way to do this is to support the local medical physicists via provision of scientific support, equipment, remote mentoring and arranging regular visits from volunteer medical physicists in well-resourced countries. To help achieve these goals, Anna has worked with the ACPSEM Asia Pacific Special Interest Group for the last six years raising money through community social events such as fun runs and trivia nights. By also being a board member of the Foundation, it enables these philanthropic activities and associated clinical benefits to be extended to those in need.
