Tuesday – Innovative Care – Western Centre for Health Research & Education Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre Inaugural Research Conference 2017

Opening: Arlene Wake and Kerry O'Donovan

• Development and implementation of end of treatment nurse consultations for women with breast cancer - Jo Armes
• The women’s wellness after cancer program: enhancing quality of life for women after cancer - Debra Anderson

• Demoralization - a common clinical disorder in patients and their families in oncology and palliative care - David Kissane
• Exercise medicine for cancer - Prue Cormie
• Cancer pain and its treatment with opioids: the detrimental link with innate immune-mediated inflammation - Andrew Somogyi

• Teleoncology, telenursing and tele-trials: evolution of tele health approach for treatment of rural, regional and rare cancer patients - Abhishek Joshi
• Digital care: transforming personal health - Trish Livingston
• Support from afar: The application of telemedicine to nutrition based cancer survivorship initiatives - Anna Boltong

• The RAGE project: implementing diagnostic pathways for gastrointestinal cancers - Jon Emery
• Development of a care complexity index for use in ambulatory settings by cancer nurses - Mei Krishnasamy
• eSMART: Using eHealth to predict those at risk of experiencing chemotherapy-induced symptoms - Jo Armes

Closing Remarks: Michael Green