The PaCCSC & CST Research Forum 2025 program will run over two days. Day 1 will focus on cancer symptom and management and day 2 will focus on palliative care. The program includes consumer views throughout as well as a session focused on carer advocates.
Consumer Included event
Cancer Voices Australia has given the PaCCSC & CST Research Forum 2025 'Consumers Included' status. This ensures that the perspectives of patients, survivors, carers, and other members of the public affected by cancer are considered in forum planning and program delivery.
Speakers
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Registration
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Program Day 1 - Cancer Symptom Management
Please check in from 8.15am for an 8.45am start.
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Program Day 2 - Palliative Care
Please check in from 8.15am for an 8.45am start.
| 8.45am | Session 1 - Innovation in clinical trials | Chair - Associate Professor Tim Luckett |
| 8.45am | Welcome from the PaCCSC Co-Chair, Associate Professor Tim Luckett |
| 8.50am | Keynote presentation: Navigating Complexity: The Role of Feasibility Studies and Process Evaluation in Palliative Care Trials of Complex Health Service Interventions - Professor Catherine Walshe |
| 9.45am | Using clinical registries to conduct clinical trials: opportunities and challenges – Professor Zoe McQuilten |
| 10.15am | Improving the Detection, Assessment, Management and Prevention of Delirium in Palliative Care Units (DAMPen-D); Integrating co-design and process evaluation in a feasibility study - Professor Mark Pearson |
| 10.35am | Morning tea and poster viewing |
| 11.05am | Session 2 - Abstracts in palliative care | Chair - Dr Ruwani Mendis |
| 11.05am | A novel non-pharmacological Breathlessness Intervention Service (BIS) improves breathlessness mastery in patients with COPD: A randomised controlled trial - Dr Tracy Smith |
| 11.25am | A multicentre, randomized controlled trial and observational study on the efficacy of specialized rehabilitation using the Op-reha Guide for terminal cancer patients in palliative care units - Assistant Professor Nanako Nishiyama |
| 11.45am | Palliative Care for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis/Motor Neurone Disease (ALS/MND): Perspectives of Clinicians, Patients and Care Partners in the United States – Dr Kara Bischoff |
| 12.00pm | Lunch and poster viewing |
| 1.00pm | Session 3 - Carer advocates - partners in care | Chair - Dr Rayan Saleh Moussa |
| 1.05pm | In Conversation - Consumer as carer and advocate – Imelda Gilmore (consumer advocate) |
| 1.20pm | Caring for carers of people with advanced cancer at hospital discharge (CARENET): A feasibility trial - Celia Marston |
| 1.40pm | Improving the wellbeing of people with advanced cancer and their family carers together: overview of international trial results and Australian research protocol for the FOCUS intervention – Professor Peter Hudson |
| 2.00pm | Family carer information needs at end of life & in bereavement – Brendan Myhill |
| 2.20pm | Consumer discussion panel – Dr Vanessa Yenson (facilitator), Tim Benson, Imelda Gilmore, Kristine Rawlinson (consumer advocate panel members) |
| 2.55pm | Afternoon tea |
| 3.20pm | Session 4 - Clinical trial design | Chair - Professor Brian Le |
| 3.25pm | Keynote Presentation - The value of a data registry to support clinical trials and generate questions and hypotheses for testing in Randomised Controlled Trials - Professor Steve Pantilat |
| 4.20pm | Discussion panel - Innovative clinical trial designs emerging in palliative care and cancer symptom care – Professor Brian Le (facilitator), Professor Catherine Walshe, Professor Steve Pantilat, Professor William Dale, Professor Zoe McQuilten, Peter Spolc (consumer) (panel members) |
| 4.55pm | Final remarks - Professor Brian Le |
| 5.00pm | Forum close |