Jia Jenny Liu, Translational Lead of Early Phase Drug Development at The Kinghorn Cancer Centre, shared a post on LinkedIn:
“This week at the ESMO Leadership Development Programme communications workshop, I was reminded that scientific expertise is only part of leadership. The other part is whether people can actually hear, trust, and act on what we are saying.
As oncologists and researchers, we spend years learning how to generate evidence. We spend far less time learning how to communicate it clearly, especially under pressure, in front of media, policymakers or the public.
One of the most useful lessons from this module was simple but uncomfortable: effective communication is not about sounding perfect.
It is about being clear, grounded, and present. That matters in oncology because excellent science does not change practice alone; it needs people who can explain why it matters, what needs to change, and who needs to act.
Thank you to ESMO – European Society for Medical Oncology and the Scientifically Speaking team Jo Filshie Browning, Kate Minogue, Terri Creeden, Peter Sandbach for investing in us.
And to my ESMO LDP colleagues (esp APAC team Edmond Kwan, Julia Dixon-Douglas and Sophia Wong) for the frank feedback and friendship.
I leave Lugano more convinced that good scientific communicators are made, not born.”
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