Ms Grace Chew

Dr Grace Chew is a Breast Laparoscopic & General Surgeon, who specialised in breast cancer treatment and research. She was awarded a NHMRC scholarship (2011–13) for post-graduate research into mammographic density (MD) cell biology at the University of Melbourne Department of Surgery, St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne. Dr Chew performs breast oncoplastic surgery at Northpark, Warringal, Cotham, and St Vincent’s Private Hospitals, as well as Austin Health and Northern Health. She presents complex patients to weekly Breast Multidisciplinary Meetings, and collaborates with experienced plastic surgeons to perform immediate breast reconstruction.

 

Dr Chew has published and presented original research investigating high mammographic density as a strong risk factor for breast cancer at an international level (2012, 2013, 2014, 2015), and at the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons Annual Scientific Congress (2012). Together with Prof K. Polyak (Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, USA) and Prof I. Haviv (Bar Ilan University, Israel), she has contributed to research into parity-associated changes on MD.

 

As an epidemiologist (M. Epi. (Melb)), she performed a meta-analysis of prophylactic-oophorectomy for breast and ovarian cancer prevention in high-risk BRCA1/2 mutation carriers (European Cancer Conference, Barcelona, 2007). Her academic appointments include Senior Lecturer at Austin Health (2012-) and Northern Health (2010-), and Lecturer at St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne (2011-2013). Dr Chew is committed to excellence in patient care, practice of evidence-based surgery, and validation of novel therapies in breast cancer surgery and research.

2016 Doctor of Philosophy, University of Melbourne (UM), Australia. Biocellular aspects of high mammographic density as a risk factor for breast cancer. 2009 Fellow of Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, FRACS Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (RACS), Melbourne, Australia 2006 Master of Epidemiology (Melb), University of Melbourne (Melb Uni), Australia 2004–2008 Advanced Surgical Training, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Australia 2002 Postgrad. Diploma of Surgical Anatomy, Melb Uni Private,