Dr Despina Handolias (MBBS; MD; FRACP; ASLM Board Certified Lifestyle Medicine Physician)

Dr Handolias is a general medical oncologist with over two decades of clinical experience and a research doctorate from the University of Melbourne and Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre. She has an interest in treating gastrointestinal cancers, melanoma, and lung cancer, and in the integration of lifestyle medicine into cancer care and prevention. A board-certified Lifestyle Medicine physician and active educator (@veganoncologist), she speaks nationally and internationally on the role of nutrition and lifestyle factors in cancer.