Staff Specialist Haematologist
Department of Hematology, St. Vincent’s Hospital, Australia
Dr Georgia McCaughan (BMedSc MBBS MMed FRACP FRCPA) is a clinical and laboratory haematologist at St Vincent’s Hospital in Sydney with a clinical and research interest in plasma cell dyscrasias including multiple myeloma and AL amyloidosis.
Georgia has a passion for novel clinical trial design and increasing clinical trial access for patients. She is an active member of the Myeloma Working Group of the Australasian Lymphoma and Leukaemia Group (ALLG), sits on the steering committee of the Australian Myeloma Research Consortium (AMaRC) and the Myeloma and Related Diseases Registry (MRDR). Georgia is the Co-Coordinating Principal Investigator on the ALLG MM26 NoRM study, designed to trial novel agent/s in patients typically excluded from clinical trials and has other trials in development with the ALLG and AMaRC. She is PI on a number of ALLG, AMARC and pharmaceutical sponsored clinical trials in multiple myeloma.
Georgia is also a Senior Research Associate at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research and works collaboratively with Professors Peter Croucher and Tri Phan on translational research in the areas of cancer cell dormancy and myeloma bone disease.