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Contact Details

Email
sharon.pattison@otago.ac.nz
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.

Publications

Shafaei Pishabad, Z., Sarkar, D., Jeffs, A., Samaratunga, H., Rhodes, J., Costello, R., Highton, A., Wright, D., Pattison, S., Kemp, R., Delahunt, B., Braithwaite, A., Slatter, T., & Mehta, S. (2025). Development of a prognostic tool for identifying high-risk prostate cancer patients. Proceedings of the Genetics Otago (GO) Annual Symposium. Retrieved from https://blogs.otago.ac.nz/go Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Yap, J., & Pattison, S. (2025). Deficient mismatch repair and BRAF mutations in metastatic colorectal cancer in the South Island of New Zealand. Asia-Pacific Journal of Clinical Oncology. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1111/ajco.14151 Journal - Research Article

Ramachandran, A., Le Quesne Stabej, P., Boyle, V., Elston, M. S., Pattison, S., Lawrence, B., & Print, C. (2024). Alternative splicing generates isoform diversity in MEN1. Endocrine Oncology. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1530/eo-24-0014 Journal - Research Article

Pinkney, H. R., Ross, C. R., Hodgson, T. O., Pattison, S. T., & Diermeier, S. D. (2024). Discovery of prognostic lncRNAs in colorectal cancer using spatial transcriptomics. npj Precision Oncology, 8, 230. doi: 10.1038/s41698-024-00728-1 Journal - Research Article

Mendis, S., Lipton, L., To, Y. H., Ananda, S., Michael, M., McLachlan, S.-A., … Pattison, S., … Lee, B. (2024). Early onset pancreatic cancer: Exploring contemporary treatment and outcomes using real-world data. British Journal of Cancer. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1038/s41416-024-02619-5 Journal - Research Article

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