BPW Coffs Harbour Scholarship Dinner

BPW Coffs Harbour is committed to acknowledging and supporting women who work hard to educate themselves further and consequently improve their lives and the lives of people around them. These scholarships are given out each year in memory of two remarkable educators who taught in Coffs Harbour, and who strongly believed in equitable access to education for girls and women. 

Our guest speaker on the night will be Dr Jane Phillips, Centre Director at the Centre for Cardiovascular and Chronic Care and Chair of Palliative Nursing at UTS, and resident of Bellingen.

Jane has an established program of research focused on improving care outcomes for people in the last year of life by strengthening the nexus between research, policy and practice. She is currently undertaking: studies to evaluate non-pharmacological interventions to improve breathlessness and delirium; health services research to improve care outcomes for older people with cancer and to improve symptom management for older people in residential aged care; and translational research in the areas of pain management and symptom management. She has developed and evaluated nurse coordinated models of palliative care and has extensive experience in cancer and chronic disease nursing, and research. She is the current President of Palliative Care Nurses Australia, Chair of the National Palliative Care Clinical Studies Collaborative Trials Management Group and on the Executive Committee of the NSW collaborative palliative care trials group ImPaCCT (Improving Palliative Care through Clinical Trials). She is also the Chair of the Clinical Oncology Society Australia (COSA) Palliative Care Interest Group, and is a member of the COSA Geriatric Oncology Interest Group.