Geriatric Oncology Concept Development Workshop

WHEN

26 March 2025
Wednesday
9.30am - 2.30pm Australia/Sydney

WHERE

City campus
UTS
Specific venue details will be sent to you if your clinical trial concept is accepted for workshopping.

COST

Free admission

RSVP

A registration link will be sent to you if your study concept is accepted for workshopping.

The PaCCSC and Cancer Symptom Trials are accepting submissions of new geriatric oncology clinical trial concepts for workshopping.

Further research is needed to improve outcomes for older people with cancer. We are looking for fresh clinical trial concepts that we can help develop into fully fledged study proposals that address the symptom management needs of older people with cancer.

Interdisciplinary experts in geriatric oncology as well as health economists, quality-of-life experts, and statisticians will be available to help you workshop your geriatric oncology clinical trial concept.

Professor William Dale, geriatric oncology expert from City of Hope Cancer Center in the US will be giving a presentation at the workshop and will also be available to help workshop your study ideas.

Don’t miss this unique opportunity to workshop your study idea with Professor Dale and other invited experts.

Frequently asked questions

This is the perfect opportunity to workshop your idea with peers and experts. Your idea does not have to be fully developed to benefit from workshopping. It can just be the spark of an idea!

You will have access to experienced researchers, experts in quality-of-life measures, health economics, and biostatistics, as well as consumer advocates with lived experience and invaluable insights both as patients and carers.

About PACCSC & CST

The Palliative Care Clinical Studies Collaborative (PaCCSC) and Cancer Symptom Trials (CST) are two research collaboratives based at the Centre for Improving Palliative, Aged and Chronic Care through Clinical Research and Translation (IMPACCT) at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS).

We facilitate high-quality inclusive clinical research through collaboration and capacity building that informs the evidence base for the provision of best practice in palliative care and cancer symptom management.

Learn more about IMPACCT

Featured speaker

William Dale is an internist/geriatrician and is board-certified in hospice and palliative medicine with a PhD in health policy. He serves as a Professor and Vice Chair of Academic Affairs at City of Hope and is the George Tsai Family Chair in Geriatric Oncology in Honor of Arti Hurria at City of Hope.

A Beeson Scholar and past leader of a Hartford Center of Excellence in Geriatrics, his career is devoted to cancer care for older adults with cancer, with a focus on medical decision-making, high-value care models, and quality of life in older adults with cancer.

In 2006, William established the award-winning Specialized Oncology Care & Research in the Elders (SOCARE) clinic, a geriatric clinic embedded in oncology, offering interdisciplinary, individualized, and integrated treatment for older adults with cancer.

William is a national leader in geriatric oncology, with over 200 publications, and supported by funding from NIH (NIA, NCI), American Cancer Society, and multiple foundations. He collaborates widely on interdisciplinary research that integrates the clinical and social sciences, particularly through his leadership of the Cancer & Aging Research Group (CARG).

He is the lead Principal Investigator, along with Co-Principal Investigators Dr Supriya Mohile and Dr Heidi Klepin, on an R33 NIA grant, Geriatric Oncology Research Infrastructure to Improve Clinical Care. This grant originally included as a multi-PI our colleague Dr Arti Hurria.

William has also served for over three years as the Director of the Center for Cancer and Aging at City of Hope, succeeding founding director, Dr Arti Hurria.