32^nd International Conference on Oncology Nursing and Cancer Care September 13-14, 2017 Singapore

Savitri Singh-Carlson ,member of the CSU Long Beach School of Nursing since 2008, She earned doctorate in 2007 from the University of Alberta. Her research focuses on understanding breast cancer patients’ experiences and the meaning of their illness.She is the coordinator for the dual MSN/MPH degree program in Nursing at California State University. Teach both theory and clinical components to graduate nursing public health students. As a new faculty member I am excited about teaching public health which is my passion. Her excitement lends me to interest in exposing students to multiple diverse clinical experiences in order for them to develop an understanding of the differences and similarities that a patient brings to the health care relationship.

Her research is with vulnerable cancer patients who are journeying through the cancer experience post treatment. Breast cancer survivors need a care plan to navigate their journey post-treatment. My interest is to make this care plan is not available to all patients in the language of choice. I am hoping to network with colleagues who have similar interests at this conference in order to further my global health interests.

Professor Bettina Meiser is Head of the Psychosocial Research Group, Prince of Wales Clinical School. She holds a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Senior Research Fellowship Level B as well as research grants from the NHMRC, Australian Research Council, Cancer Australia, NSW Cancer Council, Cancer Institute NSW and the APEX Foundation for Research into Intellectual Disabilities. With the input of many colleagues, Associate Professor Meiser has built a nationally and internationally recognised research program that assesses the psychosocial impact of genetic counselling and testing for hereditary disease; psychological adjustment of individuals at risk for hereditary disease; and the design and evaluation of interventions in the cancer genetic counselling setting, in particular decision aids as an innovative means of patient education.

Cancer, Population Health, Genetics - Genome Analysis, Clinical Research, Preventive Medicine

After completion of his postdoctoral training at University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Prof. Gautam Sethi joined Department of Pharmacology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore in 2008 as an Assistant Professor and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2015.

The focus of his research over the past few years has been to elucidate the mechanism (s) of activation of oncogenic transcription factors such as NF-kB/STAT3 by carcinogens and inflammatory agents and the identification of novel inhibitors of these proteins for prevention of and therapy for cancer. The findings of his research work have so far resulted in more than one hundred and fifty scientific publications in high impact factor peer reviewed journals and several international awards. He currently serves as an Academic Editor for PLOS, editorial board member of Scientific Reports, Pharmacological Research, BMC Cancer, Frontiers in Pharmacology, Frontiers in Oncology, and ad-hoc reviewer for several other international journals.

Professor Carmen Chan has demonstrated integrated scholarship in pediatric, cancer and palliative care research which has broadly impacted on the profession, patients, families, community, and nursing education.

Her main fields of research specialization include symptom management, psychosocial care, sexuality, advance care planning, pediatric care and cancer screening.

Dr B Srilatha has a PhD in Sexual Medicine from the National University of Singapore (NUS) and a post graduate medical degree from Madras University (India). Based in Singapore, she works as Clinical Sexologist & Senior Researcher under Psychosocial Support Services, Singapore Cancer Society. She is an active member of the International Society for Sexual Medicine (ISSM) representing the Communications Committee and is in the Executive Committee of the Asia Pacific Society for Sexual Medicine (APSSM). Her seminal contributions were awarded the prestigious Emil Tanagho Prize for Best Innovative Research in Sexual Medicine at the 12th World Congress of Sexual Medicine in Cairo, Egypt (2006) and the Best of the Top 10 Basic Science Papers Prize at the Annual Fall Meeting of the Sexual Medicine Society for North America (2011). She has impactful publications in leading international referenced journals. She is a council member of Asia-Oceania Federation for Sexology (AOFS) and the Vice-President of Singapore’s Society for the Study of Andrology and Sexology (SSASS).

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Dr Lee is a practicing Radiation Oncologist with at least 25 years of clinical experience. Having received training previously both in the United Kingdom and the United States, Dr Lee has also held senior clinical leadership appointments in the national cancer centres in Singapore and still actively involved in professional and academic bodies in the field of Radiation Oncology.

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Professor López has completed her PhD from the University of Sydney. She has an extensive clinical experience, an academic and researcher for the last 45 years and currently works at the Alice Lee Centre for Nursing Studies, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine. Professor López is regularly invited as keynote and plenary speaker at national and international nursing conferences. She is a member of the International Society of Nurses in Cancer Care, Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer, and Singapore Nurses Association. She is also the Associate Editor of the European Journal of Oncology Nursing. She has published more than 120 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as an editorial board member of repute.

Her research interests are in transcultural nursing, development, translation and psychometric evaluation of research instruments, cancer symptom management, caregiving, and psychoeducational interventions.