Dr Jane Thompson, FRACP, FRCPA | Specialist contractor, Adult Internal Medicine

Jane is a clinical and laboratory haematologist and an NHMRC PhD fellow. She completed her undergraduate studies at The University of Adelaide and is a fellow of both the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (FRACP) and the Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia (FRCPA). She underwent advanced training at The Royal Adelaide Hospital, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, and Royal Melbourne Hospital. She has research experience in iron deficiency and supplementation, as well as real-world costing of novel agents for the treatment of haematological malignancies. Currently, She is a PhD candidate at The South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI), where she is exploring underlying genomics, novel fusions, rational treatment approaches, and drug resistance in Ph-like Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia. She is a haematologist & haematopathologist in private & holds a teaching role at The University of Adelaide Medical School.

Associate Professor Tina Carter, MBBS, FRACP, PhD, FRCPA | Specialist contractor, Paediatrics & Child Health

Tina is the head of the Paediatric haematology service at Perth Children’s Hospital in WA. She is a clinical and laboratory haematologist and has been involved in clinical trials and translational research for over 25 years. Her clinical work in haematology includes the diagnosis of inherited bone marrow failure syndromes in children and their treatment. She has been a full member of the Children’s Oncology Group and Paediatric Bone Marrow Consortium since 2000. She is a FRACP and FRCPA supervisor and regularly contributes education sessions for medical students, registrars, nursing staff and haematology and oncology trainees in the QE2 laboratory and at PCH. She was also an executive member of the Australian Clinical Haemophilia Director’s organisation (6 year term finished last year). She has been the Standard 7 lead at PCH since 2017. She has been an editor for the Australian Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health since 2016. She regularly contributes and reviews articles in paediatric haematology.