Dr Alex Tan (Radiation Oncologist)
- Name
- Dr Alexander Hua Meng Tan
- Qualifications
- FRANZCR 2009
- Bachelor of Medicine / Bachelor of Surgery University of Melbourne 1999
- Occupation
- Radiation Oncologist
- Gender
- Male
Special clinical interest in urology, genitourinary, lung and gastrointestinal cancers and MR-Linac and SABR.
Dr Alex Tan completed his undergraduate degree at the University of Melbourne in 1999 and specialist training at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in 2008. He then completed a Fellowship with the Academic Urology Unit at the Royal Marsden Hospital and Institute of Cancer Research in the UK.
Following this, Dr Tan returned to Australia to work at the Townsville Cancer Centre, North Queensland, until 2021.
Dr Tan is heavily involved in education, research and the development of new services. He introduced the stereotactic body radiotherapy service to North Queensland in 2013 and was the lead of the MR-linac project which saw the implementation of the first MR-linac in Australia in 2019.
Dr Tan lectures medical students weekly, served as the Director of Training for 8 years and has been a Phase 2 examiner for the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists since 2015. He has been principal investigator for a number of national and international trials.
These efforts in the education and research sphere have resulted in his appointment as Associate Professor at James Cook University.
- Affiliated Clinics
- GenesisCare Centre for radiation oncology - Buderim
- GenesisCare Centre for radiation oncology - Nambour
Practice Locations
Sunshine Coast
- GenesisCare Centre for radiation oncology - Buderim
- Address
- 10 King Street
Buderim QLD 4556
Australia
- Phone
- 07 5374 8100
- Fax
- 07 5374 8110
- GenesisCare Centre for radiation oncology - Nambour
- Address
- 10 Mapleton Road
Nambour QLD 4560
Australia
- Phone
- 07 5374 8100
- Fax
- 07 5374 8110
