Dr Malinda Itchins (Medical Oncologist)
- Name
- Dr Malinda Itchins
- Occupation
- Medical Oncologist
- Gender
- Female
Special clinical interest in treating lung/thoracic cancers, and gastrointestinal cancers including pancreatic. Expertise in molecular therapies for oncogene driven cancers.
Malinda is originally from a small town in Tasmania and completed her undergraduate medical degree through UTas in 2009. She worked at the Royal Hobart Hospital before moving to Sydney in 2012 to begin specialist training at Royal North Shore Hospital.
Malinda was admitted as a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians in 2016 in Medical Oncology, and thereafter in 2020 awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy through USyd for her bedside to bench top research into drug resistance in ALK gene driven lung cancers. During her doctoral studies she worked part time as a Staff Specialist Medical Oncologist and Locum Oncologist at Royal North Shore and North Shore Private Hospitals and the Northern Cancer Institute.
Malinda is passionate about multidisciplinary comprehensive cancer care, optimising an efficient cancer diagnosis, patient advocacy, streamlining care including clinical trial inclusion, and undertaking research in to understanding and preventing drug resistance in cancer.
When not at work, Malinda and her husband spend time with their young daughter and their chihuahua and she enjoys exercise with long distance running and de-stressing with cross training in the gym.
She is a great supporter of the positive impact and evidence for exercise in all avenues of cancer care and wellness.
- Affiliated Clinics
- GenesisCare Centre for radiation oncology - St Leonards
Practice Locations
NSW
- GenesisCare Centre for radiation oncology - St Leonards
- Address
- Tower A
Level 1
North Shore Health Hub
7 Westbourne Street
St Leonards NSW 2065
Australia
- Phone
- 02 8037 4100
- Fax
- 02 8037 4111
