Riverina Gastrointestinal Multidisciplinary Team

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

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
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• Web
  www.riverinacancercare.com.au