Clinical Psychologist and Research Fellow

Joined September 2015
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Maria Ftanou retweeted
Not a recent podcast but one featuring TOGA Consumer representative Lisa Briggs @livinglife82 talking about her diagnosis with a rare form of lung cancer ALK NSCLC, the benefit of clinical trials and her patient advocacy activities buff.ly/417ZMeu #LCSM
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Heading to San Diego for #ASTRO2023 to present as part of stellar multidisciplinary international panel on strategies to manage fear recurrence in cancer survivors. cdmcd.co/83AAKb Thx Helen Ferry for sharing her journey through FCR and how CIFeR helped her discover 👩‍🎨🎨
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Summing up #WCLC23 in Singapore
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What a great pleasure to engage with colleagues from around the world at #WCLC2023 and discuss what the future for the IASLC NAHP Committee holds - great things I can say 😉😎 @IASLC @QuistMorten @MariaFtanou @thoracic_forum
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Two 🇦🇺 superstars ⁦@garvey_gail@drabhipal present on inequity in #lungcancer care at every step of the way from developing #lungcancer to diagnosis and treatment. We all need to be #equity champions #WCLC23 @iaslc@yapml
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Gary Rodin - there is a need for psychological care in medicine #WCLC23 #LCSM
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Congratulations to Melissa Culligan who is this years recipient of @IASLC lectureship award for nurses and allied health @thoracic_forum
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Sarah Haeseevoets, Denmark, is our next presenter in the final Research session, presenting on Breaking Down Barriers in Pulmonary Rehab. #wclc2023
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First speaker of our next session is Gary Roden presenting on the Humanitarian Crisis of Cancer. #wclc23
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Prof Gail Garvie is our next speaker, discussing how we address inequities in lung cancer care. #wclc23
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Delighted to have Melissa Culligan, chair of the ITONF Research Subcommittee, presenting her own research on Perceptions of Dyspnea & QOL in Meso pts. #wclc23
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50 years tail of mesothelioma disease @IASLC - @ Leah Taylor
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Delighted that Mary Duffy & Maria Ftanou are opening the joint ITONF & IASLC Nursing & AHP Workshop at #WCLC23
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9 Sep 2023
Join @QuistMorten, @MariaFtanou, @ONPNZ for #WCLC23's Nurse & AHP ITONF Workshop, going on now. #LCSM #LungCancer
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Great program of research on metatstatic survivorship by @PeterMacCC clinician-researcher 🌟 @JuliaLaiKwon presented at #IPOS2023 informing recommendations for policy & practice
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Maria Ftanou retweeted
Interested in undertaking a PhD looking at mental health and social connection? Fantastic scholarship opportunity with our team at the Centre for Mental Health @unimelbMSPGH @unimelbMDHS sponsored by @PushForBetter. Find more details here: go.unimelb.edu.au/w8ys

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Maria Ftanou retweeted
13 Jul 2023
When you burn people out, you push them out. Stars are the first to leave—they have the most opportunities. The solution is not to pile on the perks. It’s to pinpoint the root causes of overload and design more manageable jobs. If you want to keep people, stop exhausting them.
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"Personally, I am deeply affected by the data. Over time we’re looking at steady improvement in outcomes for non-Indigenous Australians, with the opposite trend for Indigenous Australians." @Prof_G_McArthur reflects on the importance of self-determination and cultural safety 👇
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We thanks our consumers - patients with lived experience of oral cancers - for sharing their experiences post-treatment at today's event: Oral and Oropharyngeal Cancers for primary healthcare practitioners. @tsienfua @PeterMacCC
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