Speaker Details

Professor Mei Krishnasamy

Professor Krishnasamy holds the inaugural Chair in Cancer Nursing at the University of Melbourne. Her research interests include the development and evaluation of nurse-led interventions targeted at improving patient and carer experiences of living with a diagnosis of cancer, demands of treatment and symptom profiles. She is particularly interested in the development and evaluation of nursing and allied health-led services. The focus of her work has been on generating new knowledge through diverse research projects and methodologies, and increasingly, on the best ways of meaningfully translating new and existing evidence into clinical practice. She has considerable teaching and post-graduate supervision experience. She also holds national leadership positions on nursing and multi-disciplinary oncology societies (CNSA and COSA).