Dr Sathana Dushyanthen

Digital Health Workforce Development Specialist

Sat is a Medical Educator, Lecturer and Researcher with specialisation in Cancer Sciences. She is an Academic Specialist at the Centre for Digital Transformation of Health.

She completed her PhD at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in the Translational Breast Cancer Therapeutics and Genomics Lab. The focus of the project was to understand the mechanisms of action of various therapeutic combinations on the immune systems response to cancer. Now she is focused on teaching and education research. Her work strives to use innovative educational principles, tools and teaching methods to develop engaging and contemporary curriculum. She successfully led the development of the brand new wholly online Master of Cancer Sciences at the University of Melbourne and currently leads the Coordination and Supervision of the Cancer Research Capstone. She is now the Digital Health Workforce Development Specialist at the Centre for Digital Health Transformation and works on a variety of educational programming. Her current research interests include evaluation of educational program outcomes and learning science. She is an avid Science Communicator, participating in several public forums and has a YouTube channel Science in Motion', to engage in public science education. Sathana is in the prestigious Science and Technology Australia's Superstars of STEM program.