Biography
Dr Vasey combines a strong research background with a compassionate and supportive approach to patient care. Paul has devoted a career to advancing treatments for women’s cancers, genitourinary cancers and lung cancers, in addition to providing local cancer care to patients in outer metro communities.
Dr Vasey was born in Newcastle, UK and qualified MBChB in Scotland in 1988. He completed general internal medicine training in 1991 and was the Cancer Research UK Clinical Research fellow and clinical lecturer in the Department of Oncology, University of Glasgow, Scotland from 1992-1996. During this time of clinical and laboratory research he obtained MSc in clinical pharmacology (1994) in addition to MD (1996) with the thesis entitled ‘Invitro Studies of Cisplatin-resistant Human Ovarian Carcinoma Cells’.
From 1996-2003 he was the Cancer Research UK senior lecturer in medical oncology and honorary consultant in medical oncology at the prestigious Beatson Oncology Centre in Glasgow, Scotland. In 2003 he was promoted to Reader at the University of Glasgow.
From 2001-2004 he was the director of the West of Scotland Clinical Trials Unit (CTU) and in 2002, under Dr Vasey’s leadership, this unit was awarded Cancer Research UK’s highest award.
He was the Chairman of the Scottish Gynaecologic Cancer Trials Group and an executive board member on several UK national genitourinary and gynaecologic cancer trials national steering groups. He was the first author of the ESMO guidelines for the treatment of ovarian cancer. He has over 200 publications including chapters in textbooks, peer-reviewed articles, international conference contributions and many other outputs.
In June 2004, Dr Vasey moved to Australia. He became a fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (FRACP) in March 2005 and held appointments with the University of Queensland as Associate Professor, and as an honorary associate of the University of Sydney.
Dr Vasey entered private practice in 2006, initially with HOCA [which later became ICON]. He is a Visiting Medical Oncologist at the Wesley Hospital in Brisbane and consults weekly at St Andrew’s Private Hospital in Ipswich.
His clinical practice includes all solid tumours but in particular lung and genitourinary cancers, women’s cancers, and early phase clinical trials.
Outside of ICON, he is also an accomplished science fiction author under the name PA Vasey. He has written six novels to date; many are multiple international award winners and Amazon Best Sellers.
Research
Trials being conducted by this doctor