Print this pageNSW Oncology Group: Child and Adolescent
Chair: Luciano Dalla-Pozza, MB , BS, FRACP
Paediatric Oncologist, Head Oncology Unit, The Children's Hospital at Westmead
Dr Luciano Dalla-Pozza is Department Head and a Senior Staff Specialist of the Oncology Unit at The Children's Hospital at Westmead . He is an active member of numerous subspecialty societies focused on the care of children and adolescents with cancer including the Australian and New Zealand Children's Cancer Study Group, the Australasian Leukaemia and Lymphoma Group, the Children's Oncology Group (USA), and the Clinical Oncological Society of Australia.His interest and work has centred on
* the management of acute leukaemia in children and adolescents,
* the development of clinical trials in paediatric oncology and
* the development of basic research opportunities.
He is the Study Chairperson of the ANZCHOG Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia Study 8 Clinical trial.
Key Activities of NSWOG Child and Adolescent:
- Improve medical and psychosocial care for adolescents and young adults (AYA) with cancer
- Improve psychosocial care for adolescent and young adult survivors of childhood cancer
- Working Parties established – Child Cancer Survivorship; Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer
- Insurance refusal
- Parent education
- Medication safety
- Computerised pharmacy ordering
- Schooling deficiencies for child cancer patients
