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Congratulations to Professor Karin Thursky, inaugural Director of Peter Mac’s Centre for Health Services Research in Cancer
September 22, 2025
BioGrid would like to extend its congratulations to Professor Karin Thursky, current Chair of BioGrid’s Member Management Committee, on her appointment as the inaugural Director of the Centre for Health Services Research in Cancer at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre.
The Centre, which was launched on 11 July, will investigate how care is accessed, how patients experience their treatment, how resources can be used more efficiently and how systems can be improved. This information will be used to drive system-level improvements in healthcare delivery, informed by everyday patient experiences.
Health services research can generate evidence to enable better designed cost-effective models of care. Central to health services research is data, and according to Professor Thursky, data will be the number one priority of the Centre, with an initial focus on implementing patient reported outcome measures (PROMs) across Peter Mac.