Postgraduate Workshop: Smoking and lung cancer (Pt 2)
Tracks
TSANZ Half Day Workshops
Friday, March 21, 2025 |
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM |
Riverbank 3 |
Speaker
Assoc Prof Chris Barton
Associate Professor
Monash University
Primary care perspectives – identifying and treating nicotine addiction
4:30 PM - 4:45 PMBiography
Chris is an academic with the Department of General Practice, Monash University in Melbourne Victoria.
Mr Nathan Harrison
PhD Candidate
Flinders University
Smoking cessation and lung cancer screening AU perspectives
4:45 PM - 5:00 PMBiography
Nathan Harrison (he/him) is an early-career health behavioural scientist, and public health and implementation science student. Based on Kaurna Country (Adelaide), his PhD studies at Flinders University focus on lung cancer screening, smoking, and stigma.
Nathan brings a broad range of applied research experience, particularly related to cancer risk reduction and substance (including tobacco and e-cigarette) use. Nathan worked for five years at Flinders University's National Centre for Education and Training on Addiction, and has held behavioural science research roles in academic and industry settings, including as Behavioural Scientist at the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute’s Health Policy Centre.
He is deeply committed to equity in science, and to doing rigorous, ethical research with strong consumer engagement that can contribute to reducing health disparities.
Prof Matthew Peters
Staff Specialist
Concord Hospital
Vaping – what is the evidence for causing lung cancer
5:00 PM - 5:15 PMBiography
Matthew Peters is a son, husband of one, father of five and grandfather of two. He obtained his FRACP in 1988, completed a higher degree and then spent an impoverishing three years in London as a Research Fellow. He is Senior Staff Specialist and Head of Respiratory Medicine at Concord Hospital and Professor of Respiratory Medicine at Macquarie University. He has served TSANZ in a number of roles including as President and also worked for an extended period with Lung Foundation Australia. He has made a particular contribution in the area of Tobacco Control. He became a member of the Order of Australia in 2019 recognising the significant contributions in these areas. Outside Medicine and the love of his family, 2023 will be his 23rd year of coaching an Under 13 Rugby team at St Joseph’s College in Sydney. No Wallaby yet but one Australian Rugby 7s representative!
