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DIAMOND News
Dr Sally Wheelwright from SHORE-C has recently given three conference presentations surrounding her work on the DIAMoND project. The DiAMoND project involved the development of a web-based decision aid to help people with motor neurone disease decide whether to have a gastrostomy tube fitted. The decision aid, Gastrostomy tube - is it for me? is now available on the MND Association website. Dr Wheelwright gave oral presentations at the Palliative Care Congress in Edinburgh and at the virtual Marie Curie Palliative Care Research Conference (available to watch here). Dr Wheelwright also presented a poster at the BAPEN2022 conference for which she won the Professor RG Clark Prize for best poster.
Helping patients understand their risk of recurrence scores
Professor Dame Lesley Fallowfield gave a webinar talk on 1st March as part of an educational program on molecular gene expression testing, entitled “Helping patients understand their risk of recurrence scores”. Professor Fallowfield’s presentation discussed SHORE-C’s successful TARGET educational programme in the UK, the IMPARTER study and various psychological aspects of communication about risk and uncertainty. The webinar recording is available to watch on YouTube below:
Read more about our current IMPARTER 4 study here.
Welcome Anna, our new Assistant Administrator
This week we welcomed Anna Neri to the SHORE-C team. She will be working as our new assistant administrator alongside Holly in the office. If you are calling or visiting the unit do say hi!
WMUK Webinar
Professor Dame Lesley Fallowfield gave a webinar talk on Thursday 9 March - "Talking to your clinician - getting the most out of your appointment" - for WMUK. Waldenstrom's Macroglobulinaemia is a rare kind of blood cancer. Watch the talk on YouTube:-
You can find out more about WMUK here.
DiAMonD Study Presentation, Edinburgh
On Friday 17 March, Dr Sally Wheelwright will give an oral presentation about the DiAMond Study at the Palliative Care Congress in Edinburgh. The study developed and tested a web-based patient decisiion aid to help people living with motor neurone disease choose whether to have a gastrostomy tube fitted. The decision aid, Gastrostomy tube - is it for me?, is now hosted by the Motor Neurone Disease Association and is free to use.
Professor Dame Lesley Fallowfield will advise on course content in a new partnership between The Royal Society of Medicine and the edtech company, Bodyswaps. The partnership will develop exclusive healthcare training simulations powered by artificial intelligence (AI) and virtual reality (VR). Read more on the RSM website.
A big welcome to Qi, our new Research Fellow
Qi joined us this week after studying and working in Malaysia, Australia and the UK. She will be working with Dr Sally Wheelwright on various projects around patients' nutrition management, and in general on issues around patient self-management. Welcome to SHORE-C!
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