Dr Farhannah Aly
Conjoint Lecturer
MB ChB (Honours), MPhil, FRANZCR
Medicine & Health
School of Clinical Medicine
Dr Farhannah Aly MB ChB (Hons), FRANZCR, MPhil, is a research radiation oncologist at the Ingham Institute for Applied Medical Research and holds a conjoint lecturer appointment at the Southwest Sydney Clinical School UNSW. She completed her medical training in 1998 at the University of Birmingham, UK. She is a Fellow of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists (RANZCR) and attained a Masters of Philosophy degree from the University of Wollongong in 2018. She currently is a member of the RANZCR Professional Practice Committee, RANZCR Mentoring working group and the SPHERE Cancer Clinical Academic Group Education Committee.
Farhannah has engaged with the community through her involvement with the Sisters Cancer Support Group, a support group for women from multicultural backgrounds, as well as running a weekly school science club for 5 years. Farhannah is committed to following best practice to facilitate open and reproducible research and to reduce research waste.
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Co-investigator on 3 successful grant applications.
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Date |
Investigators |
Title |
Funding source |
Funds awarded |
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2019 |
Haider A, Holloway L, Field M, Aly F, Sykes J, Carolan M |
Ensemble learning in Cancer Related Applications |
The Ingham Institute Data and Cancer Research Grant |
$25,000 |
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2019 |
Haider A, Holloway L, Field M, Huang X, Kaadan N, Aly F, Batumalai V, Carolan M, Sykes J |
Unsupervised Machine Learning for Detecting and Fixing Variations in Cancer Patients Medical Records |
The Ingham Institute Data and Cancer Research Grant |
$15,000 |
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2019 |
Jameson MG, Holloway L, Project team members: Aly F, Rai R, Estall V, Liney GP, Koh ES. |
Improving brain cancer outcomes with MRI guided adaptive radiotherapy (INTREPID) |
NSW Cancer Institute, Early Career fellowship Grant |
$480,000 (over 3y) |
2008- Elekta Award for The advances in the use of technology in Radiation Therapy. Awarded at Royal Australian College of Radiologists Annual Scientific Meeting for presentation: “Design and development of a protocol for adaptive intensity modulated radiotherapy in head and neck cancers”
Farhannah's primary research interest is the clinical implementation of statistical or machine learning outcome prediction models in patients with head and neck cancer. Farhannah collaborates with other researchers and clinicians, both in Australia and overseas. Her collaborations include data science, head and neck cancer and brain cancer projects. She is currently undertaking a PhD at the University of New South Wales (UNSW).
Farhannah is currently a member of the RANZCR Professional Practice Committee, RANZCR Mentoring working group and the SPHERE Cancer Clinical Academic Group Education Committee.
Farhannah has engaged with the community through her involvement with the Sisters Cancer Support Group, a support group for women from multicultural backgrounds, as well as running a weekly school science club for 5 years.