Bishma Jayathilaka

Bishma Jayathilaka is a clinical pharmacist and Chief Pharmacy Information Officer at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre. After completing a Bachelor of Pharmacy in New Zealand, she completed a Master of Public Health at the University of Melbourne and an internship at the WHO Headquarters Department of Health Innovation. Through her clinical work, Bishma has maintained an interest in cancer having worked in paediatric and adult cancer services and in remote, rural, and metropolitan health services in Australia and New Zealand. Bishma is currently completing a PhD through the Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology at the University of Melbourne. Her research is focused on risk prediction of immune-related adverse events and aims to identify and predict adverse event occurrence in real-world population data using data science methodologies. Bishma is a key, collaborative leader in digital health strategies to optimise and develop all aspects of medications management in the Parkville EMR (Epic Systems).