Contact Details
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- Position
- Honorary Associate Professor and Medical Oncologist
- Department
- Department of Pathology (Dunedin)
- Qualifications
- MBChB BMedSc(Disn) PhD FRACP
- Research summary
- Gastrointestinal cancers; neuroendocrine tumours; prognostic and predictive variables
- Memberships
- Translational Research Committee Member, Australasian Gastrointestinal Trials Group (AGITG)
- Member, Commonwealth Neuroendocrine Cancer Collaboration (CommNETs), Executive Committee member 2017-2023
- Member, ASCO
- Member, ESMO
- Member, NZSO
- Clinical
- Gastrointestinal and neuroendocrine cancers
Research
Sharon studied at University of Otago and University of Melbourne.
Sharon is an upper gastrointestinal and neuroendocrine cancer medical oncologist at Wellington Blood and Cancer Centre, and Honorary Associate Professor in the Department of Pathology, Dunedin School of Medicine where her laboratory is based. She is a current HRC Clinical Practitioner Research Fellow.
Sharon has research interests in gastric cancer, colorectal cancer, and neuroendocrine tumours, with a particular interest in understanding the variability that is seen at a clinical, histological, and genomic level.