St Vincents Private Hospitals

Biography

Dr Jocelyn Lippey is a Melbourne-based breast surgeon providing specialist care and compassion to people requiring oncoplastic and reconstructive breast surgery. She works at VBOC, St. Vincent’s public hospital, St. Vincent’s BreastScreen, The University of Melbourne clinical school co-ordinating research students and sits on the board of BreastScreen Victoria.

Jocelyn completed her general surgery fellowship through the Austin Hospital and then underwent post-fellowship training through BreastSurgANZ at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, the Royal Perth and Fiona Stanley Hospitals.

Jocelyn has a strong interest in research and teaching, is the final year of her PhD into risk-based breast cancer screening in Australia and sits on the BCT (Breast Cancer Trials) Scientific Advisory Committee. Her research interests include early breast cancer, tailored breast screening and ductal carcinoma in situ, risk communication, patient reported outcome measures as well as oncoplastic and reconstructive surgery.

She was the 2015 recipient of the John Collins Medal from the Australian New Zealand Breast Cancer Trials Group for young surgical researchers, a prior recipient of a National Breast Cancer Foundation practitioner grant as well as a Royal Australasian College of Surgeons scholarship. She is also an investigator on the MRFF funded BRAIx (Transforming Breast Cancer Screening using Artificial Intelligence) trial using AI mammographic interpretation software for screening mammograms.