Alexandra Murphy Clinical Oncology Society of Australia Annual Scientific Meeting 2023

Alexandra Murphy

Dr Alexandra Murphy graduated from the University of Melbourne with a Bachelor of Medicine/Bachelor of Surgery and Bachelor of Medical Science. She entered the Cardiology Advanced Training program at the Austin Hospital following which she became a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (FRACP). Alex has completed advanced fellowships in cardiac imaging, imaging for structural intervention and cardio-oncology. Dr Murphy’s PhD focuses on the optimisation of cardiovascular outcomes in cancer patients and was supported by scholarships from the NHMRC, National Heart Foundation and Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand. The centrepiece of her research was the SMART-BREAST randomised controlled trial which demonstrated the efficacy of her patented smartphone application BreastMate in the exercise promotion and cardiovascular risk reduction of early stage breast cancer patients. From this she was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to continue her research at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. Dr Murphy is now a cardio-oncologist at the newly established Victorian Heart Hospital and Austin Health.