Biography

Dr. Lillian Sung received her medical degree in 1993 from the University of Ottawa following undergraduate studies from Queen’s University. After graduation Dr. Sung pursued residency training in paediatrics (1993-1997), and paediatric infectious diseases (1996-1998) at the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario and paediatric haematology/oncology at the Hospital for Sick Children (1998-2000). Dr. Sung is certified by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada in the specialties of pediatric infectious diseases, hematology and clinical investigation. She has completed a Ph.D. in Clinical Epidemiology in the Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto (May 2004). She has been the holder of a Clinician Scientist Fellowship Award from the Hospital for Sick Children and a postdoctoral fellowship of the Canadian Institute of Health Research. Dr. Sung's research area is in the field of clinical trials with a specific emphasis on the supportive care of children with cancer and serious blood diseases. She is currently conducting a Canadian multi-center study with the primary goal of predicting the risk of invasive infection for children undergoing chemotherapy for acute myeloid leukemia.