Nursing & Allied Health Session 5B - What Should Be in Your Advanced Prostate Cancer Toolbox in 2025
Tracks
Nursing & Allied Health
Saturday, August 23, 2025 |
1:45 PM - 3:45 PM |
Grand Ballroom B |
Details
Chairs: Dr Jane Crowe & Ms Molly Lowther
Speaker
Dr Aviral Singh
GenesisCare
Theranostics from today to the future
1:45 PM - 2:05 PMBiography
Dr Aviral Singh is the Clinical Head of Theranostics & Nuclear Medicine at GenesisCare Australia and based in Perth, Western Australia.
Aviral is an active research physician and Investigator for several multicentre clinical trials in Theranostics. He has published over 45 peer-reviewed scientific papers and serves on the Guest Editorial Board for the Frontiers journals in Endocrinology and Nuclear Medicine.
His recognitions include the prestigious ‘Ones to Watch’ at SNMMI 2022, USA, inclusion in the Global Physician Honor Roll of GenesisCare in 2022, listing as a Leading World Physician of IAHCP in 2017, in addition to receiving best scientific paper awards at the SNMMI 2016 and the ICRT in 2019 and 2024.
He has presented keynote and invited lectures at several scientific society meetings nationally and internationally.
Aviral serves as a member of the Governing Body of the World Association of Radiopharmaceutical and Molecular Therapy.
Dr Fairleigh Reeves
Urologist
Royal Melbourne Hospital
50 shades of grey - imaging in prostate cancer in 2025
2:05 PM - 2:25 PMBiography
Dr Fairleigh Reeves is a urological surgeon with a subspecialty interest in prostate cancer diagnosis and management. She is a fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons and has completed a fellowship in Uro-Oncology and Robotic surgery at the prestigious Guy’s and St Thomas’s Hospital in London. Fairleigh has a PhD in prostate cancer from The University of Melbourne and is passionate about providing evidence-based, patient-centred care.
Prof Niall Corcoran
Head of Unit, Urologist, Researcher
Western Health
Pathological and genomic findings with poor prognostic outcomes : explained
2:25 PM - 3:05 PMBiography
Professor Niall Corcoran PhD FRACS(Urol) is a urologist and translational researcher based in Melbourne. He is currently Head of Urology at Western Health, and a VMO urologist at Royal Melbourne and Frankston hospitals where his main clinical focus is the management of prostate and bladder cancer. He is a principal research fellow in the University of Melbourne Centre for Cancer Research, where his group investigates mechanisms of progression in early prostate cancer, prognostic biomarkers and novel neoadjuvant treatment strategies.
Dr Janelle Brennan
Urological Surgeon
Bendigo Health
Advanced prostate cancer - systemic therapy 101
3:05 PM - 3:25 PMBiography
Associate Professor Janelle Brennan (FRACS Urol) is a urological surgeon and the Director of the North West Victorian Regional Training Hub at Monash Rural Health. Associate Professor Brennan has a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery with Honours from the University of Melbourne. She completed her training in both surgery and urology at St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne and currently heads the Urology unit at Bendigo Health. She also runs her own practice and provides urological surgery services within a number of regional health services. She has been the Principal Investigator on a number of clinical trials in Bendigo and her work has been published in the World Journal of Urology, BJU International and the Medical Journal of Australia. Associate Professor Brennan currently serves on a number of professional committees including the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons’ Rural Health Equity and Advisory Group.
Mr Marc Diocera
Genitourinary Nurse Consultant
Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
The nursing role in advanced prostate cancer
3:25 PM - 3:45 PMBiography
Marc is a Genitourinary Nurse Consultant (Medical Oncology Lead) in Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Melbourne, Australia. He originally trained in Manila, Philippines then moved to Melbourne in 2010. He has a Masters in Nursing (Urology and Continence) and a Certificate in Prostate Cancer Nursing. Marc specialises in uro-oncologic nursing and continence management with great interest into patient advocacy, survivorship, education and best practice improvement.
He is chair and section representative of the Australia and New Zealand Urological Nurses Society – VIC/TAS, a corresponding member of the European Association of Urological Nurses; member of the and a member of the Cancer Nurses Society of Australia and Continence Nurses Society of Australia.
Session Chair
Jane Crowe
Committee
Australian Prostate Cancer Research
Molly Lowther
Senior Exercise Physiologist
Australian Prostate Centre
