Biography
Professor Aranda has worked in cancer and palliative care settings since 1979, predominantly in research and teaching roles between 1989 and 2010. Her research interests centre on the development of an evidence base to enhance supportive care outcomes for people affected by cancer.
She has conducted several randomised controlled trials of novel nursing and supportive care interventions. Between 2001 and 2011 Professor Aranda led a multidisciplinary research group based at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Melbourne in a joint appointment with the University. She has received in excess of $12 million in competitive research funding as a Chief Investigator. Professor Aranda is a successful research student supervisor having supervised 11 doctoral and 9 master by research students to completion.
Since 2010 she has worked outside of the academic sector, first as Director of Cancer Services and Deputy CEO of the NSW Cancer Institute (2010-2015) and most recently as CEO of the Cancer Council Australia (August 2015 to November 2020). She now works part-time in a joint appointment between the Department of Nursing and the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre as Professor of Health Services Research.
Professor Aranda is an experienced board director and is currently the Board Chair of Scope Australia, Victoria's largest disability service provider. She is also Board Chair for the City Cancer Challenge Foundation, Deputy Board Chair of the VCCC Alliance and a director of the NSW Dust Diseases Board and the International Collaboration on Cancer Reporting. She is a Past President of the International Society of Nurses in Cancer Care and a Past President of the Union for International Cancer Control.
Awards
2020 COSA Tom Reeve Award for Outstanding Contributions to Cancer
2019 Member of the Order of Australia (AM) Australia Day Honor’s List
2017 Life Membership, Cancer Nurses Society of Australia
2016 Distinguish Merit Award – International Society of Nurses in Cancer Care
2013 4th Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre Distinguished Fellow
2009 Inaugural Recipient, Cancer Nursing Society of Australia (CNSA) - Nursing Excellence Award
2001 Oncology Nursing Society International Award for contributions to cancer care
2001 Royal Marsden Hospital Robert Tiffany Lectureship.
1985 Graduated with Distinction from Bachelor of Advanced Nursing, PIT.
1981 Gold Medal Recipient, Royal Marsden Hospital, Cancer Nursing Course.
1978 Anne Kurse award for most outstanding final year nursing student, Kew Hospital.
Qualifications
Publications
- Ugalde, A., White, V., Rankin, NM., Paul, C., Segan, C., Aranda, S., Wong, A., Hutchinson, A. & Livingston, PM. How can hospitals change practice to better implement smoking cessation interventions? A systematic review. CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians. Accepted for publication October 202
- Hyatt, A., Chan, B., Moodie, R., Varlow, M., Bates, C., Folaki, S., Palafox, N., Burich, S. & Aranda, S. Building a Cancer Coalition: a co-design framework for evaluating regionalism in the South Pacific. https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-744839/v1
- Henshall, S., Doria, R., Adams, C. & Aranda, S. Cities as an Enabler for Strengthening Cancer Care. Journal of Global Oncology, 2021, 7: doi: 10.1200/GO.20.00607
- Milch, V., Aranda, S., Canfell, K., Varlow, M., Roder, D., Currow, D., Anderiesz, C., and Keefe, D. Overdiagnosis of screen-detected breast cancer. 2021, MJA, 214(10): 455-456 e1 doi: 10.5694/mja2.51045
- Segalov, E., Carrington, C., Aranda, S., Currow, D., Zalcberg, J., Heriot, A., Mileshkin, L., Coutsouvelis, J., Millar, J., Collopy, B., Emery, J., Zhang, P., Cooper, S., O’Kane, C., Wale, J., Hancock, S., Sulkowski, A. & Bashford, J. Developing clinical indicators for oncology: the inaugural cancer care indicator set for the Australian Council on Healthcare Standards. 2021, MJA, doi: 10.5694/mja2.51087
- Donker, A., Luckett, T., Aranda, S., Vanderpuye, V. & Phillips, J. Development of the ‘Readiness Self-assessment (RESEA) guide’ to assist low and middle-income countries with establishing safe and sustainable radiotherapy services: a pragmatic sequential mixed qualitative methods project. BMC Health Services Research, 2021, 21(1): 1-10.
- Bygrave, A., Whittaker, K., Paul, C., Fradgley, EA., Varlow, M. & Aranda, S. Australian Experiences of Out-of-Pocket Costs and Financial Burden Following a Cancer Diagnosis: A Systematic Review. International Journal of Environmental Research & Public Health, 2021, 18(5), 2422
- Ugalde, A., Blaschke, SM., Schofield, P., Lambert, S., Aranda, S., Boltong, A., Chambers, S., Krishnasamy, M. & Livingston, P. Priorities for cancer caregiver intervention research: a three-round modified Delphi study to inform priorities for Participants, Interventions, Outcomes and Study Design Characteristics. Psycho-oncology, 2020, e-pub ahead of print.
- Schofield, P., Gough, K., Pascoe, M., Bergin, R., White, K., Mileshkin, L., Bernshaw, D., Kinnane, N., Jackson, N., Do, V., Brand, A., Aranda, S., Cheuk, R., Drosdowsky, A., Penberthy, S. & Juraskova, I. A nurse- and peer-led psycho-educational intervention to support women with gynaecological cancers receiving curative radiotherapy: the PeNTAGOn randomized controlled trial. Gynaecologic Oncology, Sept 2020, 159(3): 785-793.
- Bygrave, A., Whittaker, K. & Aranda, S. The impact of interventions addressing socioeconomic inequalities in cancer-related outcomes in high-income countries: A systematic review. Journal of Public Health Research, 2020: 9: p327-336
- Kao, CY., Aranda, S., Krishnasamy, M. & Hamilton, B. Development and testing of a guideline document to provide essential information for patient decision making regarding cancer clinical trials. European Journal of Cancer Care, 2020,29(5), e13236.
- Halkett, GKB., Merchant, S., Smith, SK, O’Connor, M., Jefford, M., Aranda, S. & Schofield, P. Supporting and preparing patients for radiotherapy: Patients’ and radiation therapists’ perspectives on their one-to-one consultations. European Journal of Cancer Care, 2020 e-pub ehead of print.
- Donkor, A., et al, Developing a readiness self-assessment tool for low- and middle-income countries establishing new radiotherapy services: a participant validation study. Physica Medica: European J of Med Physics, 2020, 71: 88-99
- Donkor, A., Luckett, T., Aranda, S., Vanderpuye, V. & Phillips, J. Experiences of barriers and facilitators to establishing and sustaining radiotherapy services in low- and middle-income countries: A qualitative study. Asia Pac J Clin Onc, 2020, 16(2), e74-e85. DOI:10.1111/ajco.13310
- Edbrooke, L., Denehy, L., Granger, CL., Kapp, S. & Aranda, S. Home-based rehabilitation in inoperable non-small cell lung cancer – the patient experience. Supportive Care in Cancer, 2020, 28: 99-112.
