Our monthly sessions focus on a different topic within Health Services Research & Implementation Science (HSRIS) for a diverse audience of researchers, clinicians, and quality managers. These sessions seek to describe different methodologies that can be used to investigate HSRIS questions and feature expert presenters, early career researchers and PhD candidates.
Our first session provides an overview of HSRIS, with an introduction to Health Services Research presented by the Department’s Lead Professor Karin Thursky, and an introduction to Implementation Science from Associate Professor Stephanie Best. PhD candidate Rebecca Purvis from the Parkville Familial Cancer Centre and Genomic Medicine discusses her work titled "How do we implement polygenic scores for cancer risk assessment in clinical genetics?"
This session explores the use of large-scale clinical data to inform research outcomes. Hear from Clinical Haematologist and the Health Services Research Clinical informatics lead Dr Ashley Ng, Dr Vlada Rozova who discusses the use of natural language processing to extract information from medical data, and Associate Professor Daniel Capurro from the University of Melbourne’s School of Computing and Information Systems and Deputy-director of the Centre for the Digital Transformation of Health.
The spotlight is now focused on Survivorship, a team within HSR whose research aims to better understand the issues that survivors experience and their needs, and aims to develop and test interventions to improve survivors' wellbeing. The Survivorship program lead Professor Michael Jefford kicks off the session presenting recent findings into major factors that influence variation in experience of people affected by cancer. Dr Karolina Lisy presents her work ‘A Qualitative Study of the Cancer Survivorship Experiences of Trans and Gender Diverse Australians, and Professor Vicki White (Deakin University) discusses the disparities in quality of life, social distress and employment outcomes in Australian cancer survivors.
Dr Sabine Deij, Health Economics program lead in the Department of Health Services Research provides a sound overview of Health Economics and its applications in research. Dr Lara Petelin from The Daffodil Centre presents on Modelling and Cost-Effectiveness and the University of Melbourne’s Dr Michelle Tew discusses the incorporation of future medical costs in cost-effectiveness analysis.