Riverina Gastrointestinal Multidisciplinary Team
- Services
- Team
- Contact and Meeting Times
Services
A multidisciplinary team of specialists, nurses and allied health professionals providing specialist care in the treatment of Colorectal, Oesophageal, Pancreatic and Liver cancer. This team has regular multidisciplinary care team meetings where specialists can present patient cases for multidisciplinary discussion of all available treatment options.This approach to patient care draws on the knowledge, skills and expertise of a range of organisations and professionals. Each team member works together to manage a patient’s condition to the highest possible standard of care.
The multidisciplinary team meeting is run out of the Riverina Cancer Care Centre with both public and private patients discussed. The surgeons, medical oncologists and radiation oncologists consult and treat both public and private patients, thus refer all of these patients for discussion at the gastrointestinal multidisciplinary team meetings.
Access to services such as physiotherapy, dietetics, occupational therapy and speech pathology can be facilitated by the local oncology unit and/or the cancer care coordinator or oncology social worker contact: Wagga Community Health Centre, Ph: (02) 6938 6411, Fax: (02) 6938 6410.
To contact the Multidisciplinary Team Coordinator, contact the Riverina Cancer Care Centre on (02) 6932 1000.
Multidisciplinary Team
This team comprises of the following cancer specialists and allied health professionals.
- Dr Stephen Jancewicz
Chairperson, General & Colorectal Surgeon - Dr Henry Hicks
General Surgeon - Dr Richard Harrison
General Surgeon - Dr Nicholas Williams
General Surgeon - Dr Andrew Thompson
General Surgeon - Dr Anna Giles
General Surgeon - Dr Jane Hill
Medical Oncologist - Dr Renuka Chittajallu
Medical Oncologist - Dr David Palmieri
Medical Oncologist - Dr Chloe Khoo
Medical Oncologist - Dr Martin Berry
Radiation Oncologist - Dr Noel Aherne
Radiation Oncologist - Dr Lindsay Chow
Gastroenterologist - Dr Vincent Fernon
Gastroenterologist - Dr Simon Benstock
Gastroenterologist
This MDT may also draw expertise from professionals specialising in the following roles as required on a case-by-case basis.
- Clinical Trials Nurse
- Pathologist
- Radiologist
- Registered Nurse
- Social Worker
- Dr Stephen Jancewicz
Contact and Meeting Times
Meeting times
2nd, 4th and 5th Wednesday of the month.Riverina Cancer Care Centre
31 Meurant Avenue
Wagga Wagga NSW 2650- Telephone
(02) 6932 1000 - Fax
(02) 6925 4848 - Email
riverina - at - riverinacancercare.com.au - Web
www.riverinacancercare.com.au
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