Bogda Koczwara
University of New South Wales, NSW, Australia
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Professor Bogda Koczwara is a medical oncologist at the Flinders Centre for Innovation in Cancer in Adelaide and the National Breast Cancer Foundation Fellow. Her clinical interests revolve around management of breast cancer, survivorship care, psychooncology and supportive care and she has a particular interest in strengthening of the interface between specialist and primary care for cancer patients especially in rural Australia.
Professor Koczwara leads the Survivorship Program at the Flinders Centre for Innovation in Cancer. She is the Lead in Survivorship for the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute Comprehensive Cancer Consortium and she leads the development and implementation of the survivorship framework for cancer patients in South Australia.
Professor Koczwara is the past President of the Clinical Oncology Society of Australia (COSA), the peak cancer professional organisation in Australia and the past president of the Medical Oncology Group of Australia (MOGA), the national professional organisation of medical oncologists. She is the initiator and the immediate past Chair the Australia Asia Pacific Clinical Oncology Research Development, a collaborative of international cancer organisations aimed at improving cancer research capacity in Australia and Asia Pacific.
Professor Koczwara has been recognized as a Member of the Order of Australia in January 2015 for her services to oncology through clinical practice, education and research and through a range of professional organisations.
Presentations this author is a contributor to:
Development of comorbidities in hormone-dependent breast cancer survivors treated with endocrine therapy: an Australian population-based analysis (#68)
10:30 AM
Huah Shin Ng
Morning tea & Poster viewing
Willingness of cancer survivors to complete patient reported outcomes (PRO) surveys: a pilot study at Flinders Centre for Innovation in Cancer (FCIC), South Australia (#22)
9:30 AM
Marion Eckert
Measuring what matters
The gap between theory and practice; uptake and quality of care plans and treatment summaries across survivorship care pilot sites in South Australia. (#6)
11:15 AM
Bogda Koczwara
Implementing quality survivorship care
Internet support needs and preferences of women living with advanced breast cancer. (#26)
11:00 AM
Bogda Koczwara
Survivorship when cancer cannot be cured
The relationship between resilience, distress and quality of life in cancer patients and survivors (#50)
10:30 AM
Corinna Freytag
Morning tea & Poster viewing
The financial burden of cancer – an unspoken side effect of cancer (#32)
2:20 PM
Bogda Koczwara
What we do not talk about
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