Dr Soon is a radiation oncologist who specialises in thoracic and lower gastrointestinal malignancies.
After undergoing radiation oncology training at the National University Cancer Institute, Singapore and Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Australia, he was awarded the Thomas Baker Fellowship from the Royal Australian New Zealand College of Radiologists to pursue a Masters of Science in Clinical Epidemiology at the Harvard University.
His research is focused on improving health outcomes for those affected by cancer using contemporary clinical trials and evidence synthesis methodologies. He was awarded the NMRC Research Training Fellowship to pursue a PhD in clinical trial methodology at the NHMRC Clinical Trial Centre at the University of Sydney in 2022. He is a Deputy Chair of the lung working party for the Trans Tasman Radiation Oncology Group, and serves as the Co-Chair of OUTRUN, an international randomised trial evaluating the role of stereotactic radiosurgery in EGFR mutant non-small cell lung cancer with brain metastases treated with Osimertinib. He is the faculty of the Australia and Asia Pacific Oncology Research Development Workshop that teaches early career cancer researchers on developing a clinical trial protocol.
