Friday, 14th November 2025 Joint Meeting of the COSA ASM and IPOS Congress

7:30AM - 8:45AM
Friday, 14th November
Room E3
Chairs: Sandi Hayes & Rosa Spence

This session is aimed at members of the multidisciplinary team who would like to gain the knowledge and skills to support people to engage in diet and exercise behaviours after a cancer diagnosis. The content will be targeted at those who are not Exercise or Diet professionals.

The session will provide the evidence base (the “why”), an overview of recommendations and advice that MDT members who are not exercise or diet professionals can share (the “what”). The session will include practical tips on how exercise and diet support may be incorporated within a busy clinical role (the “how”), from members of the MDT who are working in the field.

The audience will walk away with an awareness of the current evidence of diet and exercise during and following cancer treatment and the skills to support patients with these behaviours.

An interactive panel discussion with all speakers and questions from the audience will conclude the session.

Chair & Speakers

  • Rosa Spence (Accredited Exercise Physiologist, Cancer Council Queensland): Brief summary of the evidence and recommendations of exercise for cancer survivors
  • Dietitian (TBC): Brief summary of the evidence and recommendations of diet for cancer survivors
  • Kathryn Middleton (Oncologist, Mater Hospital): Medical Oncologist’s experiences of supporting diet and exercise behaviours – challenges and tips
  • Bronwyn Jennings (Gynaecology Oncology Clinical Nurse Consultant, Mater Health): Oncology nurse’s experiences of supporting diet and exercise behaviours – challenges and tips
  • Elizabeth Johnston (Senior Research Fellow (Survivorship), Cancer Council Queensland): Tools and strategies for discussing and supporting diet and exercise behaviours
  • Discussion: Audience experiences and suggestions + Q&A

8:00AM - 8:45AM
Friday, 14th November

Low and Medium Income Countries (LMIC)                                           Room E1

Early Career Professionals in Psycho-Oncology (ECPP) Committee           Room E2

10:30AM - 11:00AM
Friday, 14th November
Hall H&J
12:30PM - 1:30PM
Friday, 14th November
Hall H&J
12:45PM - 1:00PM
Friday, 14th November
Hall C

Jimmie Holland Memorial Award – Professor Luigi Grassi
Noemi Fisman Award for Lifetime Clinical Excellence – Dr Cristiane Decat Bergerot
Hiroomi & Setsuko Kawano Award – Dr Anna Singleton

1:30PM - 3:00PM
Friday, 14th November
Hall A

- Bronwyn Jennings - nurse

- Lawrence Kasherman - medical oncologist

- David Kissane - psychologist

- Rosa Spence - exercise physiologist 

- Paul Viray – geriatrician

- Michael Wordley – pharmacist

- Angie Yong – haematologist

3:00PM - 3:30PM
Friday, 14th November
Hall H&J
4:45PM - 5:00PM
Friday, 14th November
Hall C
Chairs: Lisa Beatty & Wendy Wing Tak Lam
10:30AM - 3:30PM
Friday, 14th November
Hall H&J