Join us for an engaging webinar tailored to medical, nursing, and allied health trainees, focusing on the latest evidence and clinical practice in palliative care. Delivered by leading experts, this interactive session will boost your foundational knowledge and give you confidence in contributing to palliative care, with presentations on symptom management, opioid pharmacogenomics, and early palliative care integration models.
Research findings in symptom management in advanced cancer
Prof Brian Le's presentation will focus on Australian research, including medicinal cannabis and opioids for breathlessness.
Opioid pharmacogenomics
Opioid response in cancer pain is variable, and there is early evidence demonstrating potential genetic components behind this variation. Dr Aaron K Wong will discuss the current evidence and potential applications of pharmacogenomics for cancer pain.
Early palliative care integration models
While evidence of benefits of early palliative care for people with cancer exists, barriers to integration are considerable. Prof Jenny Phillip will present on innovative care models designed to address such barriers, along with data describing their impact.
There will be a Q&A session after each presentation.
Prof Philip is a palliative care clinician, researcher and educator with an interest in improving ways supportive and palliative care are delivered. Her focus is on ensuring care is underpinned by high quality evidence and that it is delivered by well trained professionals and carers.
Her research works aim to improve patient access to timely, high quality palliative care. Her leadership and direction across the alliance enables research growth and innovation to ensure evidence-based care practices are implemented.
Prof Le is a physician specialist in both palliative bedicine and medical oncology, and a co-chair of the Palliative Care Clinical Studies Collaborative, the largest international clinical trials group researching a range of treatments for palliative care symptoms. He is a past Chair of the Training Committee of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians, responsible for training of all Palliative Medicine specialists in Australia and New Zealand.
Prof Le is involved with many other Commonwealth and State Government and not-for-profit organisations concerning Palliative Care, and is a past chairperson of Palliative Care Victoria. He has published over 100 peer reviewed scientific papers and book chapters, is involved with research in the areas of palliative and supportive care, including clinical trials of novel therapies, and research into palliative care integration and benefits for patients and carers.
Dr Wong is a dual-trained palliative care physician, medical oncologist and early career researcher. He is the Clinical Trials Lead at the Parkville Integrated Palliative Care Service, as well as Chief Investigator and Associate Investigator of several multi-centre Phase I – IV Palliative Care Clinical Trials. His research is focused on cancer and palliative care involving opioids, medicinal cannabis, insomnia, breathlessness, and pharmacogenomics. He is also Deputy Chair on the national Cancer Symptom Trials Scientific Advisory Committee. Dr Wong completed his PhD on investigating biomarkers using pharmacogenomics for optimal control of cancer pain and currently runs the GENOS study, a National Pharmacogenomics Registry Trial for Opioids in Cancer Pain.
