COSA/Roche Best of the Best Travel Awards
Toward Cancer Control
Instead of having a trade display at the COSA Annual Scientific Meeting, Roche has funded through an unrestricted educational grant the “Best of the Best” oral and poster awards presented during meeting.
Extending COSA's international reach, Roche generously funded eighteen awards for the best oral and poster presentations at this year's COSA Annual Scientific Meeting (ASM). 12 awards were available in 2009 for oral presentations and valued at $2000.00 each and 6 awards for poster presentations valued at $500.00 each.
Each prize is awarded to an individual COSA member to assist them in attending an international meeting. The prizes are awarded according to a competitive, independent process and are available across all disciplines. This is a great opportunity to build COSA's global profile and to reward our diverse membership, for excellence in contributing to the knowledge base clinical cancer care.
Just a few of the 18 “Best of Best “ award recipients at the 2009 ASM
"Best of the Best" awards for oral presentations from each session of $2000 each
Ilona Juraskova – Data, trials and Guidelines
Improving informed consent to PREVENTION clinical trials: A randomised controlled trial of a decision aid for woman invited to participate in IBIS-II (Abst #25)
Jane Young – Current Controversies
Measuring Cancer Care Coordination: Development and initial validation of questionnaires for patients and carers
(Abst #58)
Melanie Price– Supportive Care
Prevalence and predictors of insomnia in women with invasive ovarian cancer: Anxiety a major factor (Abst #81)
Freddie Sitas – Health Services
Breast cancer risk among Australian Broadcasting Corporation female employees in Australia (Abst #88)
Yan Lou – Clinical Science, Data, Trials, Guidelines
Self-management of chemotherapy-related nausea and vomiting in Chinese cancer patients (Abst # 173)
Dannie Zarate – Education & Professional Development
Hospital volume-related mortality after gastric cancer surgery: a case for targeted care of elderly patients with comorbid disease (Abst #183)
Phillipa Youl – Supportive Care
Health behaviours and clinical surveillance practices of long-term melanoma survivors (Abst #190)
Dannie Zarate – Health Services
Survival of coorectal cancer surgery patients in public and private Queensland Hospitals (Abst #180)
Jordana McLoone – Distance and Isolation
Finishing cancer treatment: The positives and negatives for adolescents and their families (Abst #112)
Penny Schofield – Lung
Meeting needs of people with inoperable lung cancer through an innovative supportive care intervention: A randomised controlled trial (Abst #122)
Helen Ke – Neuro-oncology
Screening for cognitive impairment in primary brain tumour: Is the Montreal Cognitive Assessment a more sensitive tool than the Mini Mental state examination. (Abst #148)
Joanna Fardell – Clinical Sciences
Chemotherapy produces persistent subtle cognitive deficits in laboratory rodents. (Abst # 152)
"Best of the Best" awards for poster presentations from each session of $500 each
Rama Machiraju - Most novel research
Radiotherapy business improvement process (Abst#303)
Teresa Brown – Most novel research
Development of evidence based practice guidelines for the nutritional management of patients with head and neck cancer (Abst#348)
Barb Donnan - Best communication of results
What about school...? Educational pathways to a successful future for children and adolescents with cancer (Abst#280)
S. Rowlands - Best communication of results
Development of a chemotherapy education checklist (Abst#456)
Talia Hayman - Best poster by a young researcher:
Cancer survivorship: The role of attributions, blame and forgiveness on quality of life (Abst#292)
Byeongsang Oh
Impact of medical qigong on quality of life, fatigue, symptoms, mood and inflammation in cancer patient: A randomized controlled trial (Abst#370)