Heders- och gästföreläsare
Hedersföreläsare (Bervenpristagare 2025)
Lori Pierce, professor, Michigan, USA.
Föreläsningens titel: tbd.
Lori Pierce is a radiation oncologist in the United States. She is a Full Professor and Vice Provost for Academic and Faculty Affairs at the University of Michigan, and she was the 57th President of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO). Her research focuses on the use of radiotherapy in the multi-modality treatment of breast cancer, with emphasis on intensity modulated radiotherapy in node positive breast cancer, the use of radiosensitizing agents, and the outcomes in women with breast cancer who are BRCA1-carriers treated with radiation. Pierce was in 2019, elected as a member of the National Academy of Medicine in recognition of her “research in developing radiation treatments for breast cancer that leverage advances in medical physics and laboratory science and for national efforts to draw women and people of color into medicine." This year she is nominated for the Berven prize and she will give an honorary lecture at Onkologidagarna in Sundsvall.
Sjuksköterskor i Cancervårds hedersföreläsare
Lena Sharp, specialistsjuksköterska och Medicine doktor, är avdelningschef vid RCC, Stockholm-Gotland.
Föreläsningens titel: På väg mot jämlik vård – från vision till verklighet.
Hon var tidigare ordförande för European Oncology Nursing Society (EONS) och projektledare för PrEvCan-initiativet PrEvCan - EONS - The European Oncology Nursing Society. Lena är President Elect för ISNCC (International Society of Nurses in Cancer Care). Lena har varit cancersjuksköterska sedan 1985. Hon har lång erfarenhet från klinisk cancervård, ledarskap, undervisning och forskning. Hennes huvudsakliga fokusområden inom forskning är patientsäkerhet, kommunikation, ledarskap, förebyggande, ojämlikheter och cancervårdsorganisation. Hon har erfarenhet av att leda cancerförebyggande arbete, regionalt, nationellt och internationellt, med särskilt fokus på cancerrelaterade ojämlikheter. Lena och hennes team fick det första hälso- och sjukvårdens jämställdhetspris i Stockholm 2018. Under 2021 tilldelades Lena The Robert Tiffany Award in Cancer Nursing samt EONS Life-time Achievement Award.
Sara Faithfull, PhD, MSc, BSc (hons), RN.
Föreläsningens titel: PROMs in oncology: a future beyond research.
Sara Faithfull, PhD, MSc, BSc (hons), RN is Adjunct Professor at Trinity College Dublin, University of Dublin, School of Medicine in the Discipline of Radiation therapy, Ireland and was until 2021 Professor, in the Faculty of Health, and Medical Sciences, University of Surrey, UK. She has worked in oncology for the last 37 years with a research interest in cancer treatment late effects and the impact these have on people living with and beyond cancer. Professor Faithfull was president of the European Oncology Nursing Society from 2008-2010 and is a nominated member of the European Academy of Cancer Scientists.
