Associate Professor Mei Ling Yap

Associate Professor Mei Ling Yap MBBS BSc PhD FRANZCR is a Senior Staff Specialist Radiation Oncologist based in South-Western Sydney Local Health District and Conjoint Associate Professor at the Sydney South-West Clinical School, UNSW and School of Medicine, WSU. She is the Lead of the Collaboration for Cancer Outcomes, Research and Evaluation (CCORE), a health services research group based at the Ingham Institute for Applied Medical Research which focuses on equity in cancer control. A/Prof Yap’s clinical focus is on the management of lung and breast cancers, areas of interest she developed following a clinical research fellowship at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto (2011-2013). A/Prof Yap is supported by a National Health and Medical Research Council Emerging Leader Investigator Grant (2023-2027). She co-leads projects supporting education and training and research capacity building in low-and middle-income countries in the Asia-Pacific as an Executive Member of the Clinical Oncology Society of Australia (COSA) Global Oncology Group and National Project Coordinator for the IAEA Regional Cooperative Agreement. In 2022, A/Prof Yap was awarded the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists Rouse Fellowship. A/Prof Yap currently serves on the Editorial Board of JCO Global Oncology.