Rate My Professor Michael Fay

Professor Michael Fay serves as the Foundation Chair and Director of the Mark Hughes Foundation Centre for Brain Cancer Research at the University of Newcastle's School of Medicine and Public Health, College of Health, Medicine and Wellbeing. With over 25 years of experience in clinical oncology and cancer research leadership, he is a dual-trained Medical and Radiation Oncologist specializing in brain tumours, neuro-oncology, and the development of advanced imaging and treatment techniques such as theranostics and PET. He earned his PhD from the University of Queensland in the development and clinical translation of theranostics for precision radiation treatment, and his Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBChB) from the University of Otago, New Zealand. Professor Fay is a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (FRACP, 2003) and the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists (FRANZCR, 2003). He practices as a Radiation Oncologist at GenesisCare in Newcastle and Maitland, and has previously held appointments as Conjoint Senior Lecturer at the University of Newcastle (since 2015), Senior Lecturer at the University of Queensland, Staff Specialist in Radiation Oncology at Calvary Mater Newcastle, and Honorary Senior Staff Specialist at Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital.