Dr Finlay Macrae

Dr Finlay Macrae is a gastroenterologist. The doctor supports patients with inflammatory bowel disease and familial bowel cancer. Dr Macrae utilises mature clinical experience and actively engages in new advances in inflammatory bowel disease to support patients. The doctor's engagement in research brings contemporary thinking to patients and practice, including in the genetics of risk for bowel cancer, and new therapies for inflammatory bowel disease.

Dr Macrae trained in London, bringing this skill to Australia. The doctor has built their department to manage the interpretation of DNA variants responsible for inherited gastrointestinal cancers. The doctor's clinical research in cancer prevention covers early detection, and prevention through designing and implementing randomised controlled trials; the doctor has fostered numerous commercially sponsored trials of new agents for inflammatory bowel disease, providing access to those innovative therapies through the department's clinical trial portfolio.