Seminar Series Facing Fatigue

Professor Andrew Lloyd is an infectious diseases physician and immunovirology researcher who leads both clinical and laboratory-based research programs.

Professor Lloyd is the Head of the Viral Immunology Systems Program at the Kirby Institute for Infection and Immunity at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney. He also leads the UNSW Fatigue Clinic and Research Program. 

A National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia (NHMRC) Practitioner Research Fellow, Professor Lloyd has several decades of research experience in relation to studies of the pathogenesis and management of post-infective fatigue syndromes including in epidemiology, clinical trials, microbiology, immunology, neurophysiology, and genetics.

Professor Lloyd was awarded an Australia Medal (AM) for his clinical and research achievements in infectious diseases.

Read more about the UNSW Fatigue Clinic [opens external site].

Professor Fiona Cramp is a Physiotherapist and Fellow of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy in the UK. The focus of her research is facilitation of physical activity for people with long-term conditions.

She is Director of the Centre for Health and Clinical Research at the University of West England-Bristol (UWE Bristol), which includes a wide range of research themes from musculoskeletal, neurology, and pain to emergency care and cross-cutting themes of knowledge mobilisation and children, young people and families.

She is an experienced doctoral supervisor and contributes to undergraduate and postgraduate teaching for a range of health professional programs. 

Dr Sriram Yennu is a Professor in the Department of Palliative Care and Rehabilitation Medicine at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. Since 2005, Dr Yennu has served as the chair of the Annual Intensive Physician Board Review Course in Hospice and Palliative Medicine and Interdisciplinary Conference on Supportive Care, Hospice, and Palliative Medicine at MD Anderson Cancer Center.

Dr Yennu is an established physician, researcher and educator. He has been recognised as an American Cancer Society and American Association Hospice and Palliative Medicine Research Scholar. He is a recipient of numerous awards most notably the American Cancer Society Mentored Research Scholar award and American Association Hospice and Palliative Medicine Young Investigator award.

He was the principal investigator of the recently completed randomized, controlled trial sponsored by the American Cancer Society investigating the effects of dexamethasone for cancer-related fatigue. Currently, he has ongoing studies on the role of Multimodal therapy and Ginseng on Cancer Related Fatigue.

He is the lead co-editor along with Dr. Eduardo Bruera for “Handbook in Hospice and Palliative Medicine” published in 2011 by Oxford University Press. Dr. Yennu’s numerous, peer-reviewed and invited publications are featured in high impact peer reviewed journals in palliative care and oncology.

He has published and spoken widely on the subjects of cancer related fatigue, sleep disturbances, pain, delirium and geriatric palliative care. His other interests include hospital based palliative care outcome research and education.

Dr Elizabeth Pearson is an occupational therapist and health services researcher working at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Melbourne, Australia. In both roles she aims to help people with cancer to live their lives as well as possible, for as long as possible.

Dr Pearson’s recent research has explored the feasibility of implementing evidence-based guidelines for the common problem of cancer-related fatigue.

Dr Carolina Sandler is an accredited exercise physiologist and clinical researcher. Her program of research  focuses on understanding the pathophysiology, management (incl. physical activity & multidisciplinary interventions), clinician and patient education of fatigue as a sequalae of cancer (post-cancer fatigue) and acute infection (post-infective fatigue).

Carolina holds a NSW Cancer Institute Early Career fellowship and is a lecturer at Western Sydney University. She is an adjunct researcher at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) Fatigue Clinic Menzies Health Institute, Griffith University, and the University of Queensland.

Read more about the UNSW Fatigue Clinic [opens external site].

Dr Gemma Ingham is a palliative care specialist and lead cancer clinical trialist at Prince of Wales Hospital in Sydney. She is the chair of the PaCCSC/CST Fatigue symptom node subcommittee and has a number of peer-reviewed publications.

Dr Ingham is currently the primary investigator in a phase 2, randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled study to investigate the efficacy, safety, and tolerability of ponsegromab in patients with cancer and cachexia, and a Q-stream based clinician education module for fatigue.

She works as part of a busy consult and clinic service, caring for patients with both malignant and non-malignant conditions. Dr Ingham has a passion for research and hopes that by contributing to the growing body of evidence, she can improve the level of care and the quality of life of her vulnerable patients. Her research interests are in fatigue and cachexia management.

Dr Megan Ritchie is a Staff Specialist in Palliative Medicine at Concord Repatriation Hospital. She is a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians and Australasian Chapter of Palliative Medicine.

Megan is a clinical researcher and site investigator for PaCCSC and CST clinical trials collaboratives and is a Principal Investigator for the pharmaceutical cannabis trial, Namisol for anorexia in advanced cancer. She is co-coordinating Principal investigator for Testosterone Treatment for Fatigue in Advanced Cancer.

Her particular areas of interest are cancer-related fatigue and anorexia, as well as community-based Palliative Care Medicine. She has a keen interest in education, particularly teaching medical students.

Celia Marston [opens external site] is the Clinical Lead for Occupational Therapy at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Research Lead at Royal Melbourne Hospital. She is an adjunct lecturer at Monash University and a PhD candidate at the University of Technology in Sydney.

Celia is involved with research in the areas of palliative care and cancer rehabilitation, specifically the experiences of patients and carers, the benefits of rehabilitation and return-to-work programs.

Emerita Professor Jane Phillips is at the forefront of her field and brings her considerable clinical nursing, national policy and academic expertise to deliver outcomes that are changing practice and enhancing palliative care globally.

Jane's interdisciplinary program of research targets the delivery of care that enables people to spend more days in their place of choice, to move seamlessly between care settings and to receive best evidence based palliative care.