Professor Shalini Vinod
Conjoint Professor
MBBS MD FRANZCR
Medicine & Health
School of Clinical Medicine
Shalini Vinod is a Radiation Oncologist at Liverpool Hospital. She specialises in the treatment of lung and breast cancers. Her current research is focused on health services based research (patterns of care studies, multidisciplinary team care, quality indicators), predictive modelling of data to inform patient care (datamining research), geriatric oncology models of care and new technologies to improve the radiotherapy treatment of cancer.
Qualifications:
MBBS Syd, MD UNSW, FRANZCR
Phone
02 87389805
E-mail
Location
Cancer Therapy Centre
Liverpool Hospital
- Publications
- Media
- Grants
- Awards
- Research Activities
- Engagement
- Teaching and Supervision
- Boxer MM, Vinod SK, Shafiq J, Duggan KJ. Do multidisciplinary teams make a difference in the management of lung cancer? Cancer 2011;117:5112-5120. Paper of the Year for South West Sydney Clinical School 2012.
- Sidhom M, Vinod S, Gabriel G, Lee M, Delaney G. Why are some lung cancer patients not treated according to guideline recommended therapy. Best poster prize, RANZCR ASM 2009.
- Dimigen M, Vinod SK, Tran T. Incorporating a radiologist in a radiation oncology department: A new model of care? 2nd in poster prize at CINSW Innovations in Cancer Treatment & Care Conference, 2012.
- Kadaan N, Farrugia S, Sharmin M, Vinod S, Descallar J. Incidence and extent of diagnosis of cancer in CALD population in SWSLHD. 1st in poster prize at CINSW Innovations in Cancer Treatment & Care Conference, 2013.
- Dekker A, van Soest J, Holloway L, Baile M, Miller A, Vinod S, Delaney G, Carolan M, Goozee G, Ghose A, Hegi-Johsnon F, Stirling D, Greenham S, Fraser D, Alvandi R, Foo K, Thwaites D. Mining routine radiation oncology clinical datasets within a distributed rapid learning framework: potential for supporting optimised clinical decisions. Best oral presentation at CINSW Innovations in Cancer Treatment & Care Conference, 2014.
- Duggan K. Wiltshire J, Strutt R, Boxer M, Berthelsen A, Descallar J, Vinod S. Patterns of palliative and psychosocial care in metastatic non-small cell lung cancer in South Western Sydney. Best of the Best award for Oral Presentation in Lung Cancer at COSA 2014.
- Duggan K, Wiltshire J, Boxer M, Berthelsen A, Descallar J, Vinod S. Place of Death in patients with Advanced Non-Small Cell Lung Carcinoma (NSCLC) in South Western Sydney. Best oral presentation in Epidemiology section at COSA, Gold Coast 2016.
- Duggan KJ, Berthelsen A, Bowers S, Jemison K, Kaadan N, Descallar J, Vinod SK. Lung Cancer Extent of Disease, Treatment Patterns and Overall Survival - The effect of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) Status in South Western Sydney. Australian Lung Cancer Conference, Melbourne 2020. Best poster prize.
- Powell AB, Batumalai V, Wong K, Kaadan N, Shafiq J, Delaney GP, Vinod SK. Cost-outcome of radiotherapy for local control and overall survival benefits in breast cancer. RANZCR Brisbane 2023. Winner of Varian Prize for best oral presentation by registrar
- Winner SWSLHD Quality Award 2023. Integrated care for older patients with lung cancer.
- Chin V, Finnegan R, Chlap P, Al Mouiee D, Holloway L, Hau E, Ong A, Otton J, Delaney G, Vinod S. Understanding cardiac risk in thoracic cancer radiotherapy. RANZCR ASM Perth 2024. Elekta Prize for advances of the use of technology in radiation therapy.
- Chin V, Finnegan RN, Otton J, Haidar A, Holloway L, Thwaites DI, Dowling J, Delaney GP, Vinod SK. Validation of a Fully Automated Hybrid Deep Learning Cardiac Substructure Segmentation Tool for Contouring and Dose Evaluation in Lung Cancer Radiotherapy. Clin Oncol 2023; 35:370-381. Winner of Frank Ellis Medal for greatest contribution to advancing science of cancer treatment published in Clinical Oncology.
- Koo Y, Shafiq J, Yanga J, Avery S, Vinod SK. Quality of Decision-making at Oncology Multidisciplinary Team Meetings: A Structured Observational Study. Winner of eviQ prize for evidence based research. RANZCR 2025.
- Vinod SK, Kennedy G, Xiong GM, Findlay M, Berthelsen A, Sayaloune P, Avery S, Kaadan N. A clinical quality dashboard to measure and address variation in lung cancer care. Winner Best of the Best Oral presentation in Research Category COSA 2025.
- Winner NSW Health awards for Health Research 2025 for “Nurse-Led Geriatric Oncology Model of Care”
- Winner NSW Premier’s Award for Outstanding Cancer Research, Cancer Control Innovation Award 2025 for “Nurse-Led Geriatric Oncology Model of Care”
- Lung cancer research
- Clinical lead for funded VITAL clinical trial for functional radiotherapy planning to minimize pulmonary toxicity from lung cancer radiotherapy
- Co-clinical lead for MODERN LUNG Phase III trial to evaluate moderately hypofractionated radiotherapy for Stage III NSCLC (grants submitted)
- Measurement of quality indicators in oncology
- Measuring quality indicators in head and neck cancer using linked data
- Developing dashboard to measure and display lung cancer quality indicators in SWSLHD
- Investigator in LUCAP to implement national QIs for lung cancer
- Health services research
- Unwarranted variation in radiotherapy practice
- Development and implementation of real time dashboard to display radiotherapy fractionation to minimize variation
- Impact of COVID19 on radiotherapy utilisation and surgical utilisation
- Assessing quality of decision making in multidisciplinary team meetings
- Geriatric oncology
- Evaluating implementation of geriatric oncology model of care in lung cancer
- Implementation a geriatric oncology model of care for head and neck cancer
- Investigating factors impacting hospitalization in patients with lung cancer
- Big Data Research
- Co-founder and member of The Australian Computer Aided Theragnostics Network (OzCAT) researching datamining of radiotherapy data at multiple Australian institutions and internationally
- Analysing cardiac toxicity from radiotherapy for breast and lung cancers
My Research Supervision
PhD student - Population Variations of Quality of Care in the Management of Cancer
PhD student - Identifying risk factors to reduce cardiac morbidity and mortality in patients with breast and lung cancer
PhD student - Would a predictive outcome model be a useful tool for clinical decision making in older patients with
Head and Neck cancer?
PhD student - Outcomes of cervical cancer and chemoradiation in patients with and without HIV
PhD student - Developing, Implementing and Evaluating a Co-Designed Nurse-Led Geriatric Model of Care for Older People with Lung Cancer: A Mixed-Methods Study