Arlene Chan FRACP, MMED

Professor Arlene Chan graduating from the University of Melbourne Medical School, Arlene obtained her Fellowship in Medical Oncology from the Royal Australasian College of Physicians and then a Masters of Medicine in Palliative Care from the University of Melbourne in 1993. She went on to receive a fellowship in breast cancer/cancer genetics from Princess Margaret Hospital in Toronto. Then in 1997, she returned to Australia and practiced as a Consultant Medical Oncologist at Royal Perth Hospital where she stayed until 2002.

Arlene has been a breast cancer-specific oncologist since 1999. Today, Arlene is an adjunct professor at the School of Medicine at Curtin University, the Director of the Breast Clinical Trials Unit (BCTU) at Hollywood Private Hospital and is Vice-Chair of BCRC-WA. She has been the principal investigator of more than 90 breast cancer trials and advises for several pharmaceutical companies involved in breast cancer treatments.

Arlene has authored more than 150 publications and spoken at more than 160 local, national and international breast cancer meetings. Her areas of interest include clinical research in understanding biological determinants of therapeutic response, optimizing symptomatic care in early and advanced breast cancer and developing data collection systems for clinical research and measuring patient outcomes.