Dr. Garrett Casey

Biography

Dr Louie Katsaros is a highly qualified medical oncologist with a special interest in treatments for cancers of the breast, lung, and gastrointestinal tract, as well as urological malignancies.

Katsaros graduated with a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery from the University of Queensland in 1985. After completing his medical oncology training, he undertook a clinical research fellowship in the breast cancer program at the University of Toronto, investigating high dose chemotherapy treatment for high-risk patients and metastatic disease. After completing a Master’s in clinical epidemiology where he focussed on hereditary ovarian cancer outcomes following chemotherapy, Rick returned to Brisbane as a staff specialist in oncology.

Rick is actively involved in educating medical students, has been lead investigator in a number of international trials, and is a past chair of the Clinical Oncology Society of Australia Lung Cancer Group. He has been practising privately since 2012.

Affiliations & Memberships

• Clinical Oncological Society of Australia
• Medical Oncology Group of Australia
• Australia and New Zealand Breast Cancer Study Group
• Australasian Lung Cancer Study Group
• American Society of Clinical Oncology
• American Association of Cancer Research
• Queensland Co-operative Oncology Group
• Union College Student Club (Life Member)

Special Intesterest

Dr Louie Katsaros  accepts referrals for all cancer types, with a special clinical interest in:

• Breast cancer
• Gastrointestinal cancer
• Genitourinary cancer
• Lung cancer

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