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OSWA's 7th Annual Conference
Social Work impacting Cancer Care: across the lifespan, across cultures, across the land
18-19 November 2011
Perth Convention Centre
Mounts Bay Road, Perth WA
For Conference Program, please click here.
Accommodation options close to Perth Convention Centre
(This information and attached map kindly provided by the Perth Convention Bureau)
Invited International Speaker:
Dr Irwin Epstein, PhD, Hunter College of Social Work, New York.
Dr Irwin Epstein trained as a sociologist at Colombia University. He has developed, refined and published widely on the use of Clinical Data Mining (CDM) as a tool for integrating practice and research which has particular application for social work practice. The book
Clinical Data Mining in Practice Based Research (2008) edited by Dr Epstein and Susan Blumfield was specifically targeted to social workers in hospital settings. In 2010 Dr Epstein published a pocket-guide
Clinical Data Mining: Integrating Practice and Research which draws on work from a multitude of international settings. In July 2011, a new publication
Clinical Data Mining in an Allied Health Organisation which Dr Epstein has edited with colleagues in Australia will be released. Dr Epstein travels widely and has collaborated with colleagues in the US, Australia, Israel, Hong Kong and the UK.
Irwin is an entertaining speaker and will address how social workers in cancer care can use
data collected in the course of their work as a tool for research and for improving their practice.
Invited National Speaker:
Associate Professor Dawn Bessarab, BSW, Hons, PhD, Curtin University
Dr Bessarab applies a participatory action research approach to engage and work with the Aboriginal
community. She has presented both nationally and internationally on her research in Indigenous
health, health issues and the application of Indigenous research methodologies.
An experienced collaborator and inter‐cultural partner with Indigenous and non‐Indigenous
stakeholders and organisations, Dr. Bessarab has been engaged in research projects in the areas of
cancer, cardio‐vascular disease and mental health in the Aboriginal community. She is a team author
of a recently launched community report,
A whispered sort of stuff which explored Aboriginal
people’s beliefs and experiences of cancer and cancer care in Western Australia.
Dr Bessarab’s presentation will focus on the findings of this report and the implications for social work practice with Aboriginal cancer patients and their carers.
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Vere Berger
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