PATIENT REPORTED OUTCOMES IN THE DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF LYMPHOMA
Dr Elizabeth Goodall,
Haematologist and PhD student
Austin Health, Olivia Newton-John Cancer Research Institute & Monash Health, Melbourne, Australia
RESEARCHER PROFILE
Filmed in Melbourne | February 2025
Dr. Elizabeth Goodall (BMedSci Hons, MBBS Hons, FRACP, FRCPA) is a PhD student and early career researcher with La Trobe University and the Olivia Newton John Cancer Research Institute (ONJCRI), and Haematologist at Austin Health and Monash Health, Melbourne.
After completing her undergraduate degree in Medical Sciences at La Trobe University she went onto complete an Honours degree in malaria research before enrolling in Medicine at Monash University, Gippsland, Victoria in Australia.
Following medical school, she trained at Austin Health and successfully completed both clinical and laboratory haematology programs before moving to a lymphoma clinical trials fellowship at Monash Health. This fellowship provided essential clinical skills and has fostered a life-long interest in improving patient access to trials, finding ways to better select therapies for patients with blood cancers and learning more about the patient’s experience throughout treatment.
Her specific interest in how patients experience their illness and treatment forms the basis for her research in improving patient outcomes. This research comes at a pivotal time in modern lymphoma management with an ever-increasing number of treatment options available and renewed focus on each patient’s journey.
This has led to her PhD on Patient Reported Outcomes (PROs) which will focus on the accurate documentation of the patient experience and learn how best to include this data for future clinical trial design, an essential component of obtaining excellent treatment outcomes. For this work she is the 2025 recipient of the Haematology Society of Australia and New Zealand and the Leukaemia Foundation New Investigator PhD Scholarship which will provide invaluable support throughout the PhD.
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Junior Fellowship to develop vaccine for bacteria that cause ear infections
Dr Erin Brazel has a background in molecular and translational microbiology, with a focus on developing new ways of preventing and treating bacterial diseases. Recently Dr Brazel has been awarded a Junior Fellowship by the Passe & Williams Memorial Foundation.
The fellowship enables outstanding individuals to obtain postdoctoral training under the supervision of an experienced clinical or scientific researcher, with the view to establishing a research career in Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery in Australia and/or New Zealand.
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Peripheral intravenous catheter management
Dr Grace Xu is a clinician-researcher, senior nurse practitioner, and emerging implementation scientist with more than 16 years of emergency nursing experience. She is a Fellow of the College of Emergency Nurses Australasia and a Centaur Fellow. She also leads the Early Career Researcher/Clinician Researcher portfolio within the Alliance for Vascular Access Teaching and Research group.
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Systems genetics to determine risk of developing diabetes complications
Professor Morahan invented the term “Systems Genetics” for the science field that examines how genetic variants can affect whole networks of genes and whole systems; there are now several laboratories and institutes of systems genetics around the world. He also developed the next-generation genetic resource, The Gene Mine, the most powerful of its type in the world, used globally in rapid mapping and identification of genes. Collaborators nationally and internationally have tested The Gene Mine for traits and diseases in which they specialise.
