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Event details
Registration full! Please contact events@cancer.nsw.gov.au if you would like to go onto the waiting list.
The Institute is pleased to announce the 7th annual Innovations in Cancer Treatment and Care Conference.
Supporting innovation, collaboration and continuous improvement across the cancer health system, this is a key event for all clinicians, health workers, researchers and people affected by cancer in NSW.
Get involved in this year’s conference as we address the important issue of ‘Right care, right place, right time’.
Keynote speaker: Dr Craig Earle
Dr Craig Earle is a health services researcher and medical oncologist specialising in gastrointestinal cancers at Sunnybrook’s Odette Cancer Centre in Toronto, Canada.
He is also the Vice President of Cancer Control at the Canadian Partnership Against Cancer, a senior scientist at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences and a Professor of Medicine at the University of Toronto.
Dr Earle was formerly Chair of the Ontario Steering Committee for Cancer Drug Programs and is a current member of the pan-Canadian Oncology Drug Review Expert Review Committee.
He originally trained and practiced in Ottawa, after which he spent 10 years in Boston’s Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health.
Between 2008–2017, Dr Earle was Director of Health Services Research and Head of Clinical Translation at the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research.
His personal research interests focus on using administrative data to evaluate the accessibility, quality, costs and outcomes of care delivered to cancer patients and survivors.
Call for abstracts
Abstracts are invited for oral or poster presentations. As the conference focuses on ‘Right care, right place, right time’, we will explore the following:
- Leveraging technology for improvement
- Data driving change
- Collaborating and co-designing with patients and consumers to drive change
- Striving for equity in meeting the needs of priority populations
- Tools supporting quality and safety in cancer care
We are also inviting abstracts for the popular translational cancer research rapid fire session. Rapid fire presentations are 7 minutes (including questions).
To submit an abstract simply register for the event and follow the prompts.
Abstracts close Wednesday 13 June 2018
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