Katharine Lewis

Dr

  • The University of Western Australia (M505), 35 Stirling Highway,

    6009 Perth

    Australia

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Personal profile

Biography

Katharine is from the UK, and compelted medical school and specialist training in Haematology in Nottingham, before relocating to Perth in 2018 for a Clinical Research Fellowship, specialising in lymphoma.  She is working in Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital and Linear Clincial Research, and has now obtained Fellowship of the Royal Australian College of Physicians as a specialist in Clinical Haematology.  She has extensive clinical experience  as a sub investigator on all phases of clinical trials, treating patinets mostly with lymphoma and chronic lymphotycis leukaemia, and also as a principal investigator on phase I clinical trials.

She has active in investigator initiated research and has led and collaborated on several real-world clinical studies, including leading a large international study investigating the effectiveness of systemic methotrexate in preventing CNS relapse in aggressive B-cell lymphoma, for which she was awarded the ASH-HSANZ Outstanding Abstract award in 2021.  She has recently been appointed as the inaugural Early Career Clinicaian Researcher in the Australasian Leukaemia and Lymphoma Group (ALLG) and was awarded the Cancer Council Early Career WA Cancer Researcher of the Year award in 2022.  Outside of work, she is a wife, mum of two young girls and enjoys running.

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  • SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being

Education/Academic qualification

Primary Medical Degree, BMMS, N/A, University of Nottingham

Award Date: 17 Jul 2007

Undergraduate Medical Degree, BMedSci, N/A, University of Nottingham

Award Date: 18 Aug 2005

External positions

Early Career Clinician Researcher, Australasian Leukaemia and Lymphoma Group

May 2022 → …

Clinical Haematology Research Fellow, Linear Clinical Research

10 Sept 2018 → …

Clinical Haematology Research Fellow - self funded, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital

10 Sept 2018 → …

Industry keywords

  • Clinical Trials
  • Medicine and Pharma

Research expertise keywords

  • Lymphoma
  • Chronic Lymphocytic Leukaemia (CLL)
  • Clinical trials
  • CNS prophylaxis

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