Dr James Fletcher is a consultant medical oncologist at Pindara Private Hospital, and Icon Cancer Centre Southport. He completed his Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) at the University of Queensland and undertook specialist medical oncology training across Queensland’s tertiary hospital network. In 2020 Dr Fletcher became a medical oncology fellow at the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (FRACP) and in 2021 completed his dual training as a general physician. He subsequently completed a medical oncology research fellowship at the Princess Alexandra Hospital and became a PhD candidate at the University of Queensland.

With a passion for research, clinical trials and medical education, Dr Fletcher holds academic appointments at Griffith University’s School of Medicine and the University of Queensland’s School of Clinical Medicine at the Princess Alexandra Hospital. He has published in peer-reviewed journals, been awarded research grants for collaborative research protocols and clinical trials, and been an invited speaker at local and national conferences to present on lung cancer and geriatric oncology. His clinical experience covers a broad range of solid tumour malignancies with a particular interest in breast cancer, lung cancer, gastrointestinal cancer, and geriatric oncology.