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Madonna R. Bacorro

  • Contact: drmadonnabacorro@gmail.com
  • Location: Manila, Philippines
  • Profession & Credentials: MD, DFM, FPAFP, MBA, Fellow, Family and Community Medicine, And Fellow, Philippine Society of Hospice and Palliative Medicine
  • Current Position: Section Head, Supportive, Hospice and Palliative Medicine, Department of Family and Community Medicine, JRRMMC, Manila Philippines. Consultant, Palliative Medicine, UST Hospital/ MCGH/ TMCC. Alternate Member, Research Ethics Committee, UST Hospital. Board Member, Hospice Philippines. Chairperson, and Service Head, DFCM Supportive, Hospice and Home Care Services, Navotas City Hospital
  • Language(s) Spoken: English, Filipino
  • All Areas of Expertise: Academia/Research, Palliative Care, Psychosocial, Survivorship, Research Ethics Committee

Nicolò Matteo Luca Battisti

  • Contact: nicolo.battisti@rmh.nhs.uk
  • Location: London, United Kingdom
  • Profession & Credentials: Medical Oncologist
  • Current Position: Consultant Medical Oncologist
  • Language(s) Spoken: English, Italian
  • All Areas of Expertise: Academia/Research, Administration/Leadership in Hospital, Antiemetics, Emerging Toxicities, Fatigue, Geriatrics, Hematological Toxicities, Mucositis, Neurological Complications, Nutrition/Cachexia, Survivorship

Francesco Bettariga

  • Contact: francesco.bettariga@uts.edu.au
  • Location: Joondalup, Australia
  • Profession & Credentials: PhD in Exercise Oncology
  • Current Position: Postdoctoral research fellow
  • Language(s) Spoken: English, Italian
  • All Areas of Expertise: Academia/Research, Exercise Oncology, Lifestyle and Integrative Medicine, Survivorship

Anna Boltong

  • Contact: annaboltong@hotmail.com
  • Location: Melbourne, Australia
  • Profession & Credentials: PhD
    Current Position: Self-employed
  • Language(s) Spoken: English
  • All Areas of Expertise: Academia/Research, Administration/Leadership in Hospital, Nutrition/Cachexia, Psychosocial, Survivorship, Cancer Strategy Development, Taste Dysfunction

Alex Chan

  • Contact: a.chan@uci.edu
  • Location: Irvine, California, USA
  • Profession & Credentials: Pharmacist
  • Current Position: Professor and Chair
  • Language(s) Spoken: English, Various Chinese Dialects
  • All Areas of Expertise: Academia/Research, Antiemetics, Hematological Toxicities, Neurological Complications, Survivorship

Ray Chan

  • Contact: raymondjavanchan@gmail.com
  • Location: Adelaide, Australia
  • Profession & Credentials: Nursing, RN, PhD, FACN, FAAN
  • Current Position: Dean of Research
  • Language(s) Spoken: English
  • All Areas of Expertise: Academia/Research, Survivorship

Martin R. Chasen

  • Contact: martin.chasen@williamoslerhs.ca
  • Location: Toronto, Canada
  • Profession & Credentials: Medical
  • Current Position: Oncology and palliative medicine
  • Language(s) Spoken: English, some French
  • All Areas of Expertise: Academia/Research, Antiemetics, Fatigue, Nutrition/Cachexia, Palliative Care, Survivorship

Yin Ting Cheung

  • Contact: yinting.cheung@cuhk.edu.hk
  • Location: Hong Kong SAR, China
  • Profession & Credentials: BSc(Pharm) Hons, Ph.D.
  • Current Position: Associate Professor
  • Language(s) Spoken: English, Cantonese, Mandarin
  • All Areas of Expertise: Academia/Research, Pediatrics, Survivorship

Antonio Di Meglio

  • Contact: antonio.di-meglio@gustaveroussy.fr
  • Location: Paris, France
  • Profession & Credentials: Medical Oncologist and Clinical Researcher
  • Current Position: Physician Scientist
  • Language(s) Spoken: Italian, English, French
  • All Areas of Expertise: Academia/Research, Exercise Oncology, Fatigue, Psychosocial, Survivorship

Niharika Dixit

  • Contact: niharika.dixit@ucsf.edu
  • Location: San Francisco, USA
  • Profession & Credentials: MD
  • Current Position: Professor of Medicine
  • Language(s) Spoken: English, Hindi
  • All Areas of Expertise: Digital Health, Survivorship

Caitriona Duggan

  • Contact: c.duggan23@universityofgalway.ie
  • Location: Galway, Ireland
  • Profession & Credentials: Advanced Nurse Practitioner. PhD
  • Current Position: ANP Oncology. Chairperson Western Network Irish Association for Nurses in Oncology
  • Language(s) Spoken: English, Irish
  • All Areas of Expertise: Academia/Research, Administration/Leadership in Hospital, Emerging Toxicities, Fatigue, Survivorship

Richard Gelb

  • Contact: Rhgelb39@gmail.com
  • Location: Beacon Falls, Connecticut, United States
  • Profession & Credentials: M.A. Rehabilitation Counseling
  • Current Position: Cancer Survivor Advocate; Retired Behavioral Health Professional/Family Therapist
  • Language(s) Spoken: English
  • All Areas of Expertise: Administration/Leadership in Hospital, Geriatrics, Palliative Care, Psychosocial, Survivorship, Patient/Caregiver/Clinician Communications, Especially Goals of Care, End of Life and Other Difficult Treatment Decision-Making Conversations

Kristen Haase

  • Contact: kristen.haase@ubc.ca
  • Location: Vancouver, Canada
  • Profession & Credentials: RN, BN, MA, PhD
  • Current Position: Assistant Professor
  • Language(s) Spoken: English
  • All Areas of Expertise: Academia/Research, Geriatrics, Survivorship, Ageism

Nicolas Hart

  • Contact: nicolas.hart@uts.edu.au
  • Location: Sydney, Australia
  • Profession & Credentials: Allied Health, Exercise Science
  • Current Position: Professor (Cancer Survivorship); Program Director (Clinical Exercise Physiology)
  • Language(s) Spoken: English
  • All Areas of Expertise: Academia/Research, Exercise Oncology, Fatigue, Lifestyle and Integrative Medicine, Psychosocial, Survivorship, Health Services, Implementation Science

Christoffer Johansen

  • Contact: christoffer.johansen@regionh.dk
  • Location: Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Profession & Credentials: Medical doctor, Ph.D. in coping with cancer and Dr.Med.Sci. in environmental epidemiology
  • Current Position: Head of Cancer Late Effect Research, Onkology, Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen
  • Language(s) Spoken: English, Swedish, Norwegian, some German and Danish
  • All Areas of Expertise: Academia/Research, Psychosocial, Survivorship, How to Deal With Supervisors and Mentors – if in Troubles

Bogda Koczwara

  • Contact: bogda.koczwara@flinders.edu.au
  • Location: Adelaide, Australia
  • Profession & Credentials: Medical Oncologist
  • Current Position: Senior Staff Specialist, Professor
  • Language(s) Spoken: English, Polish
  • All Areas of Expertise: Psychosocial, Survivorship, Cardio-Oncology

Jasmine Malhotra

  • Contact: jmalhotr@gmail.com
  • Location: Atlanta, United States
  • Profession & Credentials: Oncology rehab, MD
  • Current Position: Emory oncology rehab physican
  • Language(s) Spoken: English, Hindi
  • All Areas of Expertise: Cancer Pain, Exercise Oncology, Fatigue, Neurological Complications, Nutrition/Cachexia, Survivorship

Stacey Mann

  • Contact: stacey@2unstoppable.org
  • Location: Springfield, USA
  • Profession & Credentials: Oncology Exercise, Cancer Exercise Specialist
  • Current Position: Program Designer and Fitness Director for 2Unstoppable
  • Language(s) Spoken: English
  • All Areas of Expertise: Exercise Oncology, Fatigue, Survivorship

Ason Mohammed

  • Contact: axmohammad1@gmail.com
  • Location: Little Rock, USA
  • Profession & Credentials: Quantitative Research, MS, AdvCRS
  • Current Position: Data Analyst
  • Language(s) Spoken: English, Hindi
  • All Areas of Expertise: Academia/Research, Cancer Pain, Digital Health, Fatigue, Survivorship, Cancer Survivor and Caregiver Navigation

Kazunori Nagasaka

  • Contact: nagasakak@gmail.com
  • Location: Tokyo, Japan
  • Profession & Credentials: Obstetrics and Gynecology
  • Current Position: Professor
  • Language(s) Spoken: English, Japanese
  • All Areas of Expertise: Academia/Research, Administration/Leadership in Hospital, Hematological Toxicities, Survivorship, Oncofertility

Larissa Nekhlyudov

  • Contact: lnekhlyudov@partners.org
  • Location: Boston, Massachusetts, USA
  • Profession & Credentials: MD, MPH
  • Current Position: Professor, Harvard Medical School
  • Language(s) Spoken: English
  • All Areas of Expertise: Academia/Research, Exercise Oncology, Psychosocial, Survivorship

Regine Nshimiyimana Maniraho

  • Contact: regine.nshimiyimana-maniraho@jefferson.edu
  • Location: Philadelphia, USA
  • Profession & Credentials: DNP, BPharm, AOCNP, AGACNP, FNP
  • Current Position: Country Co-Director Jefferson Consortium for African Partnership, Nurse Practitioner, Adjunct Faculty Thomas Jefferson University/University of Delaware
  • Language(s) Spoken: English, French, Kinyarwanda
  • All Areas of Expertise: Academia/Research, Antiemetics, Cancer Pain, Exercise Oncology, Fatigue, Nutrition/Cachexia, Survivorship, Integrative Oncology

Nosa Osazuwa-Peters

  • Contact: nosa.peters@duke.edu
  • Location: Durham, United States
  • Profession & Credentials: Dentist, Transdisciplinary Head and Neck Cancer Epidemiologist and Population Health Scientist
  • Current Position: Associate Professor, Duke University School of Medicine
  • Language(s) Spoken: English
  • All Areas of Expertise: Academia/Research, Cancer Pain, Digital Health, Oral Care, Palliative Care, Psychosocial, Survivorship, Head and Neck Cancer

 

Oxana Palesh

  • Contact: oxana.palesh@vcuhealth.org
  • Location: Richmond, USA
  • Profession & Credentials: PHD, MPH
  • Current Position: Professor
  • Language(s) Spoken: Russian, English
  • All Areas of Expertise: Academia/Research, Cancer Pain, Fatigue, Psychosocial, Survivorship, Conduct of Clinical Trials

Hsi-Chun Pan

  • Contact: a27960141@gmail.com
  • Location: Taipei City, Taiwan
  • Profession & Credentials: RN, OCN, MSN
  • Current Position: RN (Oncology)
  • Language(s) Spoken: English, Mandarin, Chinese
  • All Areas of Expertise: Academia/Research, Survivorship

Catherine Paterson

  • Contact: Catherine.paterson@flinders.edu.au
  • Location: Adelaide, Australia
  • Profession & Credentials: Nursing, RN, PHD, MSc, FHEA, PgCert. LTA, MSC NP
  • Current Position: Professor of Cancer Nursing
  • Language(s) Spoken: English
  • All Areas of Expertise: Academia/Research, Digital Health, Survivorship, Research Methodologies and Methods

Satheesh kumar Poolakkad Sankaran

  • Contact: drsatheeshkumar@gmail.com
  • Location: Buffalo, New York, USA
  • Profession & Credentials: DDS, MDS, PG Diploma, MSc, ICRT, MMSc
  • Current Position: Director of Community Outreach and Health Equity Cancer Research, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
  • Language(s) Spoken: English, Hindi, Malayalam and Tamil
  • All Areas of Expertise: Academia/Research, Digital Health, Mucositis, Oral Care, Survivorship

Debbie Saunders

  • Contact: dsaunders@hsnsudbury.ca
  • Location: Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
  • Profession & Credentials: Dentist
    Current Position: Medical Director, Dept of Dental Oncology
  • Language(s) Spoken: English
  • All Areas of Expertise: Academia/Research, Administration/Leadership in Hospital, Mucositis, Oral Care, Survivorship

Afreen Shariff

  • Contact: afreen.shariff@duke.edu
  • Location: Durham, United States
  • Profession & Credentials: MD
  • Current Position: Associate Professor of Medicine, Director, Duke Endo Oncology Program, Associate Director, Duke Center for Cancer Immunotherapy
  • Language(s) Spoken: English, Hindi, Urdu
  • All Areas of Expertise: Academia/Research, Administration/Leadership in Hospital, Digital Health, Emerging Toxicities, Survivorship

 

Manisha Singh

  • Contact: singhmanisha0806@yahoo.com
  • Location: Muscat, Oman
  • Profession & Credentials: Palliative Medicine Consultant, MBBS, MD Anesthesiology, Fellowship in Cancer Pain and Palliative Medicine
  • Current Position: Consultant Pain and Palliative Medicine
  • Language(s) Spoken: English, Hindi, Marathi, Urdu, Arabic (not fluent)
  • All Areas of Expertise: Academia/Research, Antiemetics, Cancer Pain, Fatigue, Geriatrics, Mucositis, Oral Care, Palliative Care, Psychosocial, Survivorship, Acute Care in Palliative Medicine

Rama Sivaram

  • Contact: Ramasivaram@gmail.com
  • Location: Pune, India
  • Profession & Credentials: Health Educator and Counsellor
  • Current Position: Consultant KEM Hospital Res Centre , Pune and Faculty Sanjeevani Life beyond Cancer
  • Language(s) Spoken: English, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu and working knowledge of Marathi and Gujarati.
  • All Areas of Expertise: Academia/Research, Exercise Oncology, Palliative Care, Psychosocial, Survivorship

Carmen Soto

  • Contact: carmen.soto@nhs.net
  • Location: London, United Kingdom
  • Profession & Credentials: Consultant; MBBS; BMedSci; MSc; PhD. MRCPCH
  • Current Position: Consultant in Paediatric and Adolescent Oncology
  • Language(s) Spoken: English (some French/Spanish)
  • All Areas of Expertise: Academia/Research, Pediatrics, Survivorship

 

Nikolaos Tsoukalas

  • Contact: tsoukn@yahoo.gr
  • Location: Athens, Greece
  • Profession & Credentials: MD, PhD, MSc in Bioinformatics
  • Current Position: Director / Consultant Medical Oncologist
  • Language(s) Spoken: English, Greek
  • All Areas of Expertise: Academia/Research, Administration/Leadership in Hospital, Antiemetics, Cancer Pain, Emerging Toxicities, Hematological Toxicities, Mucositis, Neurological Complications, Nutrition/Cachexia, Survivorship, Holistic and Integrative Oncology, Multidisciplinary Approach in Oncology, Career Development

Corina van den Hurk

  • Contact: corina.vd.hurk@catharinaziekenhuis.nl
  • Location: Utrecht, Netherlands
  • Profession & Credentials: PhD
  • Current Position: Senior Researcher
  • Language(s) Spoken: English, Dutch, German
  • All Areas of Expertise: Oncodermatology, Survivorship, Networking, Symptom Monitoring and PROMs

Patsy Yates

  • Contact: p.yates@qut.edu.au
  • Location: Kelvin Grove, Australia
  • Profession & Credentials: PhD, RN
  • Current Position: Executive Dean, Faculty of Health, Queensland University of Technology
  • Language(s) Spoken: English
  • All Areas of Expertise: Academia/Research, Palliative Care, Psychosocial, Survivorship