Leukaemia Foundation shared on LinkedIn:
“Up to 90% of people with cancer do not meet exercise recommendations with support from an accredited exercise physiologist.
But the right kind of exercise can help many patients feel better, manage side effects, and improve their quality of life throughout treatment and recovery
That’s why we’re proud to support Dr Morgan Farley through our Implementation Science Grant.
In 2018, Dr Farley founded Valere Health after seeing first-hand how exercise improved her grandmother Valerie’s wellbeing during lymphoma treatment.
Since then, she’s dedicated her career to helping more cancer patients access the care and support they need.
She now also leads the Health System Delivery Stream within the Supportive Care and Cancer Research Group at Royal Brisbane & Women’s Hospital, and is a Research Fellow at the Cancer and Palliative Care Outcomes Centre at QUT (Queensland University of Technology).
Dr Farley will lead a research project focused on helping more people living with blood cancer access safe, effective exercise programs.
Her research will help more people with blood cancer access specialist exercise support across Australia, so more people can live well during and after treatment.
For more information about our research grants, visit.”
Morgan Farley, Oncology Exercise Physiologist, Owner of Valere Health, Research Fellow at the Cancer and Palliative Care Outcomes Centre at QUT, shared the post by Leukaemia Foundation, adding:
“Extremely excited to lead this work in collaboration with Leukaemia Foundation, Valere Health and QUT.
I founded Valere in 2018 after watching how exercise helped my grandma through lymphoma so to now be helping improve access to exercise programs for people with blood cancer is extremely close to my heart.
We will do this through the development and delivery of workforce development programs for nurses and AEPs along with delivering community exercise programs.”
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