PC4 Previous Training Award Winners
2024/25 Dr Farwa Rizvi
Farwa will use the PC4 Training Award to investigate general practitioners’ experiences supporting culturally diverse populations in cancer screening.
2024/25 Dr Darren Haywood
Darren will conduct research into understanding general practitioners’ barriers and facilitators to implementing effective behaviour change strategies for CALD cancer survivors.Â
2023/24 Audra de Witt
Audra will participate in a systematic review focused on engagement and recruitment strategies that improve participation of different culturally and linguistically diverse groups in primary care-based clinical trials.
2023/24 Renae Lawrence
Renae will participate in a systematic review focused on models of palliative care for rural cancer patients in primary care.Â
2022/23 Makala Castelli
Makala will undertake a consumer-led systematic review to identify success factors for self-managed models of survivorship care
Larry Myers
Based at Cancer Council Queensland, Larry will undertake a project to understand the mechanisms underlying the socioeconomic disparities in cancer screening.
Anna Singleton
Based at the University of Sydney, Anna will investigate the perceptions of barriers and enablers to implementing an automated eHealth intervention to support breast cancer survivors’ healthy lifestyle.
Jessica Cerni
Based at the University of Wollongong, the award will help Jessica develop her biostatistics skills in order to examine the effects geographic variation has on the patterns of end-of-life care in cancer patients in NSW.
Carolyn Ee
Carolyn is an academic GP based at the University of Western Sydney. Her award will develop her qualitative research skills while investigating acupuncture, yoga and mindfulness meditation for weight management after breast cancer.
Kaaren Watts
Kaaren is based at Curtin University in Western Australia. Kaaren and her team will undertake a systematic review to determine the current and future role of telehealth in rural and remote communities in the early detection of cancer and cancer screening.
Barbara De Graff & Jessica Roydhouse
Based at the University of Tasmania, Barbara and Jessica will undertake a systematic review to explore screening for liver cancer in primary care.
Carla Thamm
Based at the Queensland University of Technology, Carla will attend the conference GP19 and survey GPs to establish the minimal standards of General Practitioner’s care for addressing financial toxicity in cancer patients (FinTox-GP).