Ursula Sansom-Daly, PhD
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Senior Research Fellow @UNSWMedicine + Clinical Psychologist Sydney Youth Cancer Service #AYACSM #PedPC #PsyOnc #EoLC #WomeninSTEMM #ABCtop5 Views=own
Sydney, Australia
Joined July 2014
As the academic year winds up, I’m thrilled to share that I’ve been promoted to A/Prof @UNSW as of 1/1/2025!🥳 A lot has changed since graduating with my PhD in 2014 under the wise + whip-smart guidance of Profs Claire Wakefield @CEwakefield, Richard Bryant & Richard Cohn…1/3🧵
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@DrNicolasHart Great to hear a bit more about your professional as well as personal journey to working in research on advanced cancer today @DrNicolasHart - thanks for sharing so candidly 🙌🏻 #WorldCancerDay
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@TeenCancerUSA Thank you for sharing @TeenCancerUSA - this has been such a meaningful project - I’m thrilled more AYAs, families and health professionals can now access this - to support how we can have better conversations about what truly matters to #AYA managing serious illness 🙌🏻 #AYACSM
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RT @DarrenHaywood14: Very grateful to have contributed to the development of this guideline with an amazing team! #cosa @COSAoncology @usan…
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To see our data supporting the acceptability, appropriateness + benefits of using #VoicingMyChoices in Australia - I shared our paper on this last year 👇🏻 #AYACSM #PallOnc #PedPC @AYAGlobalCancer @IPOSPsychoOncol
⚡️NEW PAPER⚡️ We know young people w/ #cancer & other illnesses want to be involved in conversations about their care & quality of life, especially if cure becomes uncertain. Yet these conversations are hard to start, and to have…🧵1/ #AYCSM @CEwakefield
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Always a joy to see my fabulous clinical psychology colleague + friend Dr Toni Lindsay @ToniLindsayPsyc speak on their thoughtful work with young people with #cancer - including around palliative care & #EoLC 🙌🏻 #AYACSM #AYACancerCongress 💛
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Thought-provoking talk by @Sisk_MD - with the evolution of technology/AI requiring health-professionals to ask some important ethical questions: Is it true? Is it good? Is it wise? And how will clinicians choose to work alongside tech in the future? #AYACancerCongress #AYACSM
Invited #AYACancerCongress speaker Dr Bryan Sisk @Sisk_MD shares a model and approach to studying communication in #AYA with #cancer As well as opportunities/challenges to using technology - like patient portals- to prompt and support communication #AYACSM
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So great to see the field of palliative care in #AYAcancer flourishing with excellent talks by Dr Sarah Daniels from @StJude + Dr Mohamed Abdelaal @MKAbdelaal & Dr Amirrtha Srikanthan at #AYACancerCongress - highlighting benefits of (& gaps in) #PallCare interventions 💪🏻#AYACSM
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Starting in 5 minutes! ⏰ delighted to be chairing the #AYACancerCongress session on #survivorship featuring Dr Joanna Fardell @jefardell A/Prof Antoinette Anazodo @ANZoncofert Prof Christopher Recklitis @DFBC_PedCare and Dr Kate Law @law482_k #AYACSM @AYAGlobalCancer
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Always so great to see the fab survivor-scientist Dr Clarissa Schilstra @CESchilstra sharing her work 💪🏻 see here to read some of the research priority setting work Clarissa led in partnership w #AYA that underpinned this 👉🏻
@CESchilstra “we’re getting really good at detecting difficulties with social well being but not so great at closing the loop and doing something about it” #AyaCongress @AYAGlobalCancer check out the paper ➡️
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RT @AYAGlobalCancer: Professor @OlgaHusson makes a good point in passing that formal peer support can be “confronting” for young people wit…
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@drkiwicj @marklewismd Amazing- two fabulous #cancer communicators in one place! Your plenary today was really great @drkiwicj
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Thought-provoking #AYACancerCongress plenary by Prof Chris Jackson @drkiwicj on new treatments, language + hope in advanced #cancer - “we all have something to lose, not least of which is our humanity” #AYACSM #WordsMatter #PedPC
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Ahead of this week’s @AYAGlobalCancer Congress, our fab working group leads squeezed in a productive meeting for the @TheLancetOncol AYA Cancer Commission 🙌🏻 with the tireless @Winette_vdGraaf joining us online from EU 💪🏻 Excited to build on this work in 2025 to improve #AYACSM
An honour to join this brilliant group as working group leads for @TheLancetOncol AYA Cancer Commission 🙌🏻 Much achieved in our exciting 2 days of meetings @sickkids w fearless leaders @Zen_Sumit @Winette_vdGraaf & Prof Lindsay Frazier at the helm 💪🏻 More work to come! #AYACSM
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@LSharpeUSYD @UNSW @CEwakefield @UNSWMedicine Huge thanks Louise! Hope you are doing really well during this busy end of the year!
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@MariaCable2 @UNSW @CEwakefield @UNSWMedicine Thank you Maria! Sending you very very best from Sydney and will miss you at the @AYAGlobalCancer Congress this year! Xx
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@bogda_koczwara @UNSW @CEwakefield @UNSWMedicine Huge thanks Bodga!! Appreciate your support and leadership in the field too 💪🏻
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