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Grace Yang
Dr Grace Yang graduated from University of Cambridge in 2005 and obtained MRCP (UK) in 2008. She completed her specialist training in Palliative Medicine in National Cancer Centre Singapore (NCCS) in January 2014 and joined NCCS, where she is now a Senior Consultant. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Medicine, Singapore. Alongside clinical work, Dr Grace Yang is also actively pursuing research and is currently involved in projects on spirituality, quality of life and health services research.
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Maria Ftanou
Dr Maria Ftanou is the head of the Clinical Psychology Department at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Melbourne and a Research Fellow at the School of Population and Global Health at The University of Melbourne. Maria has over 16 years of clinical experience, primarily in the field of psychosocial oncology. She and her team provide evidence-based psychological interventions to people with cancer and their families across the cancer trajectory.
Maria is interested in developing and implementing research that uses novel technologies and interventions aimed at improving the wellbeing and mental health outcomes for people with cancer and their families. Maria is committed to developing workforce capacity across the field to better address the psychosocial needs of people with cancer. Maria has been the recipient of multiple competitive grants and published in national and international peer review journals.
Maria is interested in developing and implementing research that uses novel technologies and interventions aimed at improving the wellbeing and mental health outcomes for people with cancer and their families. Maria is committed to developing workforce capacity across the field to better address the psychosocial needs of people with cancer. Maria has been the recipient of multiple competitive grants and published in national and international peer review journals.
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Zoe Merchant
Zoe is the programme lead for the Greater Manchester region-wide Prehab4Cancer and recovery programme, which has provided prehab and rehab to over 2000 cancer patients since it's inception in April 2019. She is a highly specialist Occupational Therapist, whose clinical speciality has been in providing complex rehabilitation to patients with a range of physical and mental health conditions. She is a doctorial student, undertaking a PhD with the University of Manchester. Her research is a component of the EMBRaCE-GM (Enhanced Monitoring for Better Recovery and Cancer Experience in Greater Manchester) research group, of which she is the qualitative 'human factors' research lead. Zoe represents the Royal College of Occupational Therapists within the UK national prehabilitation workforce consortium, contributed to the Macmillan 2019 Prehab guidance and is also a member of the Macmilllan AHP Expert Advisory Group. She has published her work, including most recently leading an international author team to prepare a chapter on Frailty and prehab and rehab, which will be published by Springer this year (2021).
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