A/Prof Paul Vasey was born in Newcastle, UK and qualified MBChB in Scotland in 1988. He completed general internal medicine training in 1991, and was the Cancer Research UK Clinical Research fellow and clinical lecturer in the Department of Oncology, University of Glasgow, Scotland from 1992-1996. During this time of clinical and laboratory research he obtained MSc in clinical pharmacology (1994) in addition to MD (1996) with the thesis entitled ‘Invitro Studies of Cisplatin-resistant Human Ovarian Carcinoma Cells’.
From 1996-2003 he was the Cancer Research UK senior lecturer in medical oncology and honorary consultant in medical oncology at the prestigious Beatson Oncology Centre in Glasgow, Scotland. In 2003 he was promoted to reader at the University of Glasgow.
From 2001-2004 he was the director of the West of Scotland Clinical Trials Unit (CTU) and in 2002, under A/Prof Vasey’s leadership, this unit was awarded Cancer Research UK’s highest award, Alpha*.
In June 2004, A/Prof Vasey moved to Australia into the position of staff specialist at the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital, Brisbane, Australia. He became a fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (FRACP) in March 2005, and held appointments with the University of Queensland as associate professor, and as an honorary associate of the University of Sydney.
He has particular clinical interests in women’s cancers and genitourinary cancers, having been the chairman of the Scottish Gynaecologic Cancer Trials Group and an executive board member on a number of UK national genitourinary and gynaecologic cancer trials national steering groups. He was the first author of the ESMO guidelines for the treatment of ovarian cancer. He has over 200 publications including textbooks, peer-reviewed journals, conference contributions and other outputs.