Dr Michael Ng (Radiation Oncologist)
- Name
- Dr Michael King Yew Ng
- Qualifications
- Bachelor of Medicine / Bachelor of Surgery Monash University Australia 1998
- FRANZCR Australia 2007
- Occupation
- Radiation Oncologist
- Gender
- Male
Michael is an honours graduate of Monash University Medical School. He trained as a radiation oncology registrar at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre and spent his fellowship year overseas at the Royal Marsden Hospital, United Kingdom. He spent this year as a clinical-research fellow focusing in prostate cancer, IMRT and active surveillance.
He received a merit award for his work on PSA kinetics in prostate cancer from the American Society of Clinical Oncologists Annual Meeting 2007. He also won the Varian prize for his research project in conformal radiotherapy and sparing of salivary glands in 2005. He then returned to Australia and worked as a staff specialist at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in head and neck and gastrointestinal cancers.
Michael was the Chairperson of a TROG national study assessing the clinical effective, safety and costs into using Intensity Modulated Radiotherapy (IMRT) in anal cancer. He has been the co-chair of the EviQ Radiation Committee for the last 4 years. EviQ (www.eviq.org.au) is resource for health professionals and Michael role is involved in developing radiotherapy guidelines based on evidence. Since August 2015, he has been chair of the EviQ committee.
Michael has special interests in advanced radiotherapy treatments. He has been involved in developing protocols for stereotactic radiosurgery, stereotactic body radiotherapy and deep inspiration breath hold radiotherapy for left sided breast cancers.
He has interest in research and participates in various clinical trials (ENZARAD). Apart from improving technological delivery of radiotherapy, he has interest in outcomes data, particularly patient reported outcomes.
- Affiliated Clinics
- GenesisCare Centre for radiation oncology - Epping Medical Centre
- GenesisCare Centre for radiation oncology - Ringwood
- GenesisCare Centre for radiation oncology - St Vincent’s Melbourne
- Affiliated Organisations
- Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists (RANZCR)
- GenesisCare Centre for radiation oncology
- Topics
- Breast, Prostate
- Lung
- Gastrointestinal
- Lymphoma
- Stereotactic Radiotherapy
Practice Locations
Melbourne
- GenesisCare Centre for radiation oncology - Epping Medical Centre
- Address
- Epping Medical Centre
Ground Floor
230 Cooper Street
Epping VIC 3076
Australia
- Phone
- 03 9409 8000
- Fax
- 03 9409 8080
- GenesisCare Centre for radiation oncology - Ringwood
- Address
- Ringwood Private Hospital
36 Mount Dandenong Road
Ringwood East VIC 3135
Australia
- Phone
- 03 8870 3300
- Fax
- 03 8870 3388
- GenesisCare Centre for radiation oncology - St Vincent’s Melbourne
- Address
- St Vincent’s Hospital
Building C Basement Level
41 Victoria Parade
Fitzroy VIC 3065
Australia
- Phone
- 03 9427 6500
- Fax
- 03 9427 6510
