Jessica is research lead of the Concord Centre for Palliative Care and provides input into the overall Sydney Catalyst program via the T2/T3 Working Group by contributing to the generation of new ideas, recommendations for capacity building and advocating for the interests of members working in the evidence into practice space.
Background:
Jessica is a palliative medicine physician and
clinician-researcher at the Concord Centre for Palliative Care. She
is a PhD candidate at University of Technology, Sydney, studying
how to improve outcomes in neuropathic cancer pain with a focus on
implementation ready translational outcomes from clinical trials
and implementation of evidence into practice.
She leads the Concord Palliative Care Research Group which is
involved in numerous phase II, III and IV investigator initiated
clinical trials.
She is an executive member of Improving Palliative Care in
Clinical Trials (the NSW palliative care research collaborative)
and is building a community of practice for early career clinician
researchers working in a supportive care space. She is the pain
symptom node lead and trials management committee member of the
Palliative Care Clinical Studies Collaborative (the Australian
palliative care research collaborative).
With the help of her wonderful family,
Jessica juggles research and clinical practice with being a working
mum to a joyful toddler
Research Interests:
Jessica is passionate about building a strong culture of
research and evidence based practice to improve care of patients
with advanced illness. She believes patient centered care and
holistic care are cornerstones of best practice.
She is currently leading research in neuropathic cancer pain,
randomised controlled trial of lignocaine infusion for neuropathic
cancer pain, developing a customisable multi-lingual patient
communication tool and multi-disciplinary management of refractory
breathlessness. She is interested in all aspects of translational
research involving palliative care patients.