Provisional Fellow

What you'll be doing

The St. Vincent’s Hospital haematology department is a well-recognised referral centre for myeloma and plasma cell disorders and participates in numerous myeloma trials. We also provide specialist amyloidosis care as part of the St Vincent’s Hospital Cardiac Amyloidsois Clinic.

The Zamasa Foundation is a charitable foundation whose sole focus is the advancement of immunotherapy research into Multiple Myeloma, with the fellow position established at St Vincent’s in 2018.

The duties and responsibilities of the position will include:

• Provision of clinical services to patients with Multiple Myeloma and other plasma cell dyscrasias in the outpatients (and inpatient) setting
• Conducting regular clinics for myeloma patients in the Kinghorn Cancer Centre and contributing to a database of all myeloma patients in the unit.

• Involvement in the clinical trials unit - recruit, consent and follow up patients in BMT and cellular therapy clinical trials
• Assist in maintenance of quality accreditation for local and international registries
• Assume a leadership role, specifically in terms of leading and mentoring junior staff and advanced trainees, and participating in hospital-wide teaching and education
• Involvement in clinical/laboratory research projects for presentation at local or international meetings
• Assistance with ward or registrar cover during periods of leave
• Travel alongside a haematology consultant to attend a rural/regional clinic once every 2-3 months
• No regular afterhours/overtime haematology roster commitments (although opportunities available on request)

Where you'll be working 

St Vincent’s Health Network Sydney (SVHN) is located centrally in bustling Darlinghurst, part of St Vincent’s Health Australia. We are a clinical and education leader with a national and international reputation in medical research is co-located with the research institutes – the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, the Garvan Institute of Medical Research, and St Vincent’s Institute of Medical Research.  The Hospital is a teaching hospital of the UNSW and University of Notre Dame and has academic associations with the Australian Catholic University, Sydney University and the University of Technology, Sydney.

St. Vincent’s Hospital has a long-standing reputation for treating the highest acuity and complex patient loads, attracting referrals on a state-wide and national basis. We support to the Murrumbidgee Health district including remote specialist clinics at Wagga Wagga and Griffith Base hospitals. We specialise in heart/lung transplantation; bone marrow transplantation; cardiology; neurosurgery, cancer; clinical genomics, HIV medicine; palliative care, respiratory medicine; mental health; and drug and alcohol services, aged psychiatry, homeless health and prisoner health.