Lisa Cunningham

Ms Lisa Cunningham

Lecturer, Radiation Therapy

School of Allied Health and Human Performance

College of Health


Lisa is a Lecturer in Radiation Therapy in the Allied Health and Human Performance Unit. She teaches into all radiation therapy courses in the Bachelor of Medical Radiation Sciences program, and is involved in honours student supervision. Lisa has 15 years of clinical experience where she has worked predominantly in the public sector in Adelaide, with a secondment to Darwin in 2010 to establish the first radiation therapy centre in the NT.
While working as a clinician, Lisa completed an honours degree at UniSA and was engaged as a casual tutor. Eventually academic life won the tug of war, and she has been employed at UniSA since 2019. Her role as lecturer and course coordinator at UniSA involves working closely with clinical partners to coordinate clinical placements, investigate research opportunities, and maintain up to date teaching resources. Lisa is an inaugral member of the UniSA Authentic Assessment Design Lab, and she is passionate about the use of authentic assessment and clinical simulation in teaching.
In her spare time Lisa acts as taxi driver, chef and social coordiator for her three young children. She also enjoys practicing yoga, bike riding (very slowly) and sewing.

Year Citation
2025 Wood, L., Giles, E., Cunningham, L., Le, H., Zientara, N., & Short, M. (2025). Proton therapy patient selection methods and the impact of COVID-19: a cross-sectional international survey. Journal Of Medical Radiation Sciences, online(3), 1-8.
DOI
2024 Wood, L., Giles, E., Cunningham, L., Le, H., Zientara, N., & Short, M. (2024). Proton radiation therapy patient selection and impacts of COVID-19: A scoping review. Journal of Medical Radiation Sciences, 71(S2), 37-46.
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2021 Douglass, M., Austin, A., Penfold, S., & Nguyen, G. T. (2021). Individualised selection of left‐sided breast cancer patients for proton therapy based on cost‐effectiveness. Journal of Medical Radiation Sciences, 68(1), 44-51.
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2021 Cunningham, L., Penfold, S., Giles, E. G., Le, H., & Short, M. (2021). Impact of breast size on dosimetric indices in proton versus X-ray radiotherapy for breast cancer. Journal of Personalized Medicine, 11(4, article no. 282), 1-12.
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2020 Santos, A. M. C., Kotsanis, A., Cunningham, L., & Penfold, S. N. (2020). Estimating the second primary cancer risk due to proton therapy compared to hybrid IMRT for left sided breast cancer. Acta Oncologica, 60(3), 1-10.
DOI Scopus9 WoS9 Europe PMC7

Courses I teach

  • RADY 1017 Introduction to Medical Radiation Practice (2025)
  • RADY 2015 Radiation Therapy Clinical Practice 1 (2025)
  • RADY 3029 Radiation Therapy Studies 2 (2025)
  • RADY 3030 Radiation Therapy Studies 3 (2025)
  • RADY 3031 Radiation Therapy Studies 4 (2025)
  • RADY 3032 CT and PET Imaging (2025)
  • RADY 4045 Radiation Therapy Clinical Practice 3 (2025)
  • RADY 4046 Radiation Therapy Clinical Practice 4 (2025)
  • RADY 4047 Radiation Therapy Honours Clinical Practice 4 (2025)
  • RADY 1017 Introduction to Medical Radiation Practice (2024)
  • RADY 2011 Radiation Therapy Studies 1 (2024)
  • RADY 2015 Radiation Therapy Clinical Practice 1 (2024)
  • RADY 3029 Radiation Therapy Studies 2 (2024)
  • RADY 3030 Radiation Therapy Studies 3 (2024)
  • RADY 3032 CT and PET Imaging (2024)
  • RADY 3040 Radiation Therapy Clinical Practice 2 (2024)
  • RADY 4045 Radiation Therapy Clinical Practice 3 (2024)
  • RADY 4046 Radiation Therapy Clinical Practice 4 (2024)
  • RADY 4047 Radiation Therapy Honours Clinical Practice 4 (2024)
  • RADY 4049 Radiation Therapy Professional Entry Practice 1 (2024)
  • RADY 4050 Radiation Therapy Professional Entry Practice 2 (2024)

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