Mei Ling Yap Clinical Oncology Society of Australia Annual Scientific Meeting 2024

Mei Ling Yap

Associate Professor Mei Ling Yap MBBS BSc PhD FRANZCR is a clinician researcher from Sydney, Australia. She is a Senior Staff Specialist Radiation Oncologist based in South-Western Sydney Local Health District and Conjoint Associate Professor at the Sydney South-West Clinical School, University of New South Wales and School of Medicine, Western Sydney University. She is the Lead of the Collaboration for Cancer Outcomes, Research and Evaluation (CCORE) and Head of the Cancer Program at the George Institute for Global Health, UNSW. A/Prof Yap’s clinical focus is on the management of lung and breast cancers, areas of interest she developed following a clinical research fellowship at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto (2011-2013). A/Prof Yap’s research focus is on equity in cancer control, and she is supported by a National Health and Medical Research Council Emerging Leader Investigator Grant (2023-2027). Her PhD explored equity gaps in radiation therapy access in New South Wales, Australia. She co-leads projects supporting education and training and research capacity building in low-and middle-income countries in the Asia-Pacific as an Executive Member of the Clinical Oncology Society of Australia (COSA) Global Oncology Group and National Project Coordinator for the IAEA Regional Cooperative Agreement. In 2022, A/Prof Yap was awarded the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists Rouse Fellowship. A/Prof Yap currently serves on the Editorial Board of JCO Global Oncology.