Thursday 9th December 2021, 18:00 - 19:00
Have you thought about submitting an abstract for a conference but just never got around to it or didn’t know where to start? This webinar will take you through the process of abstract development and help you create an abstract for submission to a conference. In the discussion Lynn Calman will look at some successful abstracts and discuss their content and format.
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Speakers
Lynn Calman
Lynn is a registered adult and mental health nurse. Over the last 15 years Lynn’s research has focused on understanding and responding to the needs of people living with and beyond cancer. She had led and collaborated on major research programmes in cancer survivorship/psychosocial oncology leading to widely published, practice changing findings that have underpinned the development of services to improve the outcomes of cancer patients. Lynn holds a leadership role in the National Cancer Research Institute (NCRI) Living With & Beyond Cancer Group as Chair of the Advanced Disease and End of Life Care Workstream and is a member of the Lung Group. She is the nursing representative on the British Psychosocial Oncology Society (BPOS) Executive and has been appointed to the NHS Cancer Programme's COVID Recovery Task and Finish Group on Psychosocial Support.
Matthew Johnson
Matthew works as Macmillan Lead Cancer Nurse at Royal Brompton and Harefield hospitals, leading a small team of thoracic oncology nurses. He qualified as a nurse in 1988 and undertook his oncology training at Christie Hospital in Manchester. He has worked in several London hospitals, but rarely far away from patients with cancers of the lung. He completed his PhD in 2020 at Sheffield Hallam University with the support of a LCNUK Studentship. He is currently undertaking a small research project looking at the experience of patients diagnosed long-term with pleural mesothelioma and their carers, supported with a research grant from Mesothelioma UK.