Dr Yasmin Jayasinghe

Dr Yasmin Jayasinghe (MBBS, FRANZCOG, PhD) is a Paediatric and Adolescent Gynaecologist with the Department of Gynaecology, Royal Children’s Hospital. She is a gynaecologist with the Reproductive Services and the Oncology/Dysplasia Service at the Royal Women’s Hospital, Melbourne. She is the current President of the Australian & New Zealand Society of Paediatric and Adolescent Gynaecology, and a Senior Lecturer in Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of Melbourne. Between 2005-2007 she undertook research investigating breast disorders in children and young women with the Department of Paediatric and Adolescent Medicine Mayo Clinic Rochester. She was awarded a PhD on cervical cancer and precancer in young women in 2013 at the University of Melbourne and is a co-investigator on the VACCINE study, monitoring the impact of the cervical cancer vaccine in an Australian population. She is principal investigator on a review of Fertility Preservation measures in oncology patients at the Royal Children’s Hospital which is a project supported by the Victorian Government through Victorian Cancer Agency Research Funding. Dr Yasmin Jayasinghe is the recipient of the Victorian Cancer Agency Early Career Research Funding .