Dr Julia Lai-Kwon
Biography
Dr Julia Lai-Kwon is an early career Medical Oncologist and Health Services Researcher at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre. She has previously trained at the Royal Marsden Hospital, United Kingdom and the Melanoma Institute Australia, Sydney, Australia. Her clinical interests are melanoma and other cutaneous malignancies. Dr Lai-Kwon has research expertise in quality of life research, survivorship and patient-reported outcomes. She has presented nationally and internationally and published on the survivorship experience of people with metastatic cancers receiving immunotherapy and targeted therapy, quality of life issues in people with metastatic melanoma, and the use of patient-reported outcomes in research and routine care. She is currently undertaking a PhD under the supervision of Professor Michael Jefford, Associate Professor Claudia Rutherford and Associate Professor Stephanie Best on the co-design of a remote monitoring system for people receiving immunotherapy. Dr Lai-Kwon is an active member of the The European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) Quality Life Group and the International Society for Quality of Life Research (ISOQOL).