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Contact Details

Email
sharon.pattison@otago.ac.nz
Position
Honorary Associate Professor and Medical Oncologist
Department
Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine (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.

Publications

Desmond, B., De Silva, M., Wong, D. J., Watson, D. I., Duong, C. P., Bright, T., … Pattison, S., … SPACE‐FLOT ANZ Investigators. (2026). Open versus hybrid and total minimally invasive transthoracic Ivor Lewis esophagectomy following neoadjuvant FLOT chemotherapy: An Australian and New Zealand cohort study. World Journal of Surgery. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1002/wjs.70391 Journal - Research Article

Sivakumar, J., Wong, D. J., Hall, K., Lee, M. M., Duong, C. P., Watson, D. I., … Pattison, S., … Liu, D. S. (2026). Total versus subtotal gastrectomy following neoadjuvant flot chemotherapy for distal diffuse gastric adenocarcinoma: An international cohort study. Gastric Cancer. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1007/s10120-026-01746-7 Journal - Research Article

Yu, C., Neumann, S., Pattison, S., & Wang, J. (2026). Global quantitative dynamics and early warning signals of hepatocellular carcinoma: Integrating theoretical modeling with experimental validation. Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 130(10), 2771-2781. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.6c00322 Journal - Research Article

Shanika, L. G. T., Turner, R., Pattison, S., & Braund, R. (2026). Population-based trends in gastrointestinal cancer incidence and mortality in New Zealand: A 11-year analysis. Cancer Epidemiology, 100, 102973. doi: 10.1016/j.canep.2025.102973 Journal - Research Article

Hayat, F., Chiu, A., Stuart, A., Lee, B., Gibbs, P., Johns, J., … Pattison, S., … Day, F. (2025). Effects of current smoking on treatment outcomes in metastatic and locally advanced pancreatic carcinoma: A retrospective cohort study using the international PURPLE pancreas cancer registry. Journal of Gastrointestinal Oncology, 16(5), 2377-2387. doi: 10.21037/jgo-2025-186 Journal - Research Article

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