Dr Philippa Ell

Dr Ell has a clinical interest in upper gastrointestinal (GI) cancers, treating oesophageal, pancreatic, hepatobiliary, and other upper GI cancers.  She completed training at the Princess Margaret Hospital in Toronto, Canada for pancreatic, liver, and oligometastatic stereotactic radiotherapy. Dr Ell offers a range of treatment types including MRI-guided, stereotactic, and conventional radiotherapy and has broad experience in the treatment of pancreatic cancer, as well as primary and secondary liver and intra-abdominal malignancies. Dr Ell has also been part of EviQ Australia’s GI Cancer and Lung Cancer reference Committees.

Dr Ell is chair of one of the Hunter regions’ breast multidisciplinary teams (MDT’s), which includes a group of specialist clinicians from different fields offering holistic, multidisciplinary care and appropriate treatment plans to patients with breast cancer.  She has multiple years’ experience treating breast cancer of all stages and is an active participant in clinical trials. Dr Ell has a special interest in post-treatment survivorship and has published on the management of cardiac toxicity post radiotherapy for breast and other thoracic cancers.

Dr Ell has been involved in the specialist reference group established by Cancer Australia who created clinical guidelines titled “Investigating symptoms of lung cancer: a guide for health professionals”.  Additionally, she has an interest in offering advanced radiotherapy techniques for the treatment of lung cancer and regularly works with medical oncologists to help deliver comprehensive care to patients.

She has an interest in modern treatment techniques to help improve patient outcomes, and has experience treating patients on the MRIgRT at GenesisCare, Darlinghurst in Sydney. 

Dr Ell completed medical school in 2009 and since that time has also completed a Certificate in Clinical Epidemiology at University of Sydney.  She did her specialist training in NSW and during that time spent time at Calvary Mater, Newcastle, St George Public Hospital Kogarah and Prince of Wales Public Hospital in Randwick.  She completed a clinical/research fellowship at St Vincent’s Hospital, NSW, focusing on head and neck and CNS malignancies.

Dr Ell is conjoint lecturer at the University of Newcastle School of Medicine and participates in training of junior oncology specialist trainee doctors in NSW.