Associate Professor Claire Phillips
Biography
Claire Phillips is a senior radiation oncologist and Deputy Director of Radiation Oncology at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre. She has been a consultant radiation oncologist at Peter Mac since 2002.
Claire is a subspecialist in NeuroOncology and was also a member of the Breast Unit until 2021. She served as Acting Director of Radiation Oncology in 2018 and again from mid 2021 to late 2022.
Claire’s main clinical research interests are in primary and secondary brain tumours and ocular oncology. She has chaired several clinical trials through the Trans Tasman Radiation Oncology Group (TROG) and in collaboration with colleagues at the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital, conducted a world first study of radiation oncology standard fractionation for choroidal melanoma aiming to reduce toxicity and improve vision outcomes. In addition, Claire is and has been local primary investigator for numerous studies in breast cancer and brain tumours.
Claire’s publications span these clinical areas as well technical delivery and quality of stereotactic and ocular radiation therapy techniques and imaging in radiation therapy. In 2003, she developed Australia’s first stereotactic radiotherapy for choroidal melanoma programme. Whilst Clinical Lead of the Peter Mac NeuroOncology unit, Claire initiated and lead the project that brought the Victorian Gamma Knife to Peter Mac in 2021 and is the clinical lead for the current project to bring particle therapy to Victoria.
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