APCRC - Q Seminar Series - Guest Speaker on Palliative Care
| Event Type | Seminar |
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| When |
Jun 07, 2012
from 08:45 PM to 10:45 PM |
| Where | Brian Emmerson Room, Level 4, PAH |
| Contact Name | Mel Raassina |
| Contact Phone | 07 3176 1894 |
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“Improving quality of life for men with prostate cancer: Building an evidence base for supportive care services and interventions”
Professor Patsy Yates
Professor and Health & Wellbeing Domain Leader
Faculty of Health, Queensland University of Technology
Director, Queensland Health’s Centre for Palliative Care Research and Education
Patsy is jointly appointed as Professor of Nursing at Queensland University of Technology, and Director for Queensland Health’s Centre for Palliative Care Research and Education, a state-wide service that was established to enhance palliative care services in Queensland through education and research. As Director for the Centre, Patsy leads a range of programs focused on developing workforce capacity in palliative care, researching priority issues in palliative care, and strengthening the nexus between research, policy and practice.
She is currently a member of the Executive Committee for Palliative Care Australia, the Board of Directors for the International Society of Nurses in Cancer Care and past member of the Board of the National Breast and Ovarian Cancer Centre.
“Advanced Prostate Cancer Patient Journey Modelling: A Health Economic Perspective, Opportunities and Challenges for Better Health Services”
Dr Amol Wagholikar
Project Leader, Research Scientist, Australian e-Health Research Centre, CSIRO
Research Affiliate, Australian Prostate Cancer Research Centre - Queensland
Dr Amol Wagholikar is a project leader at the Australian e-Health Research Centre (AEHRC) and works as a Research Affiliate with the Australian Prostate Cancer Research Centre.
He is the leader of a collaborative research project aimed at developing a health-economics-based simulation model for the stages of advanced prostate cancer. The project also aims to assist with patient journey visualisation of advanced prostate cancer patients and to provide semi-automated solutions to match eligible patients to advanced prostate cancer clinical trials, using semantic technology.
Dr Wagholikar’s current research interests are information retrieval, health economic modelling, semantic technology, natural language processing (NLP) and case-based reasoning.
Brian Emmerson
Level 4, Blue Lifts, Main Building, Princess Alexandra Hospital
Brisbane (please contact us if you require directions)
Refreshments: from 4.45pm
Presentations: 5.15pm-6.15pm
Networking: 6.15pm-6:45pm
RSVP for catering purposes: prostatecentre@qut.edu.au
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