Tuesday - Palliative Care & Psycho-oncology – Park Hyatt Hotel hosted by St Vincent’s Hospital Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre Inaugural Research Conference 2017

Some of the Palliative Care and Psycho-oncology sessions of the program will run in parallel. Please refer to session title to see which parallel stream it sits in.

Some of the Palliative Care and Psycho-oncology sessions of the program will run in parallel. Please refer to session title to see which parallel stream it sits in.

• Building a research program informed by clinical care - Eduardo Bruera
• Building a research platform for delivering supportive interventions to people living with cancer - Lidia Schapira

• Psychosocial issues in genomics - Phyllis Butow
• Pilot-testing of a decision aid for participants in whole genome screening and psychosocial impact of testing for polygenic breast cancer risk - Bettina Meiser
• When ethics, genetics and paediatrics collide: Investigating the impact of genetic testing, genetics-related service needs, and the acceptability of new genetics in childhood cancer - Claire Wakefield

• Managing multiple complex symptoms in palliative care: Building the evidence base - Patsy Yates
• What’s the future of prognosis in palliative care? - Paul Glare
• Palliative care as a standard part of quality cancer care - what will it take? - Jennifer Philip

• Between the motion and the act: new insights into the cancer-suicide link - Justin Dwyer

• Empowering the clinician-patient-family TRIO: clinical guidelines and online training to manage and enhance family involvement in cancer consultations - Ilona Juraskova
• Talking to children about parental cancer: development of an intervention to support parents with cancer who have young children - Lesley Stafford

• Focus on bereavement : outcomes, risk factors and the health professional - Brian Kelly
• Interventions for family caregivers: an overview of the state of the science - Peter Hudson

Eduardo Bruera

Lidia Schapira

Brian Kelly

Steve Ellen

Consumer (TBC)

Closing Remarks: Jenny Phillips and Penelope Schofield