DrKirsty Galpin

Kirsty began her career as a registered nurse in the United Kingdom. She has been working in health services research for almost 20 years.

Her early research focus was in intensive care and peri-operative settings. She completed her PhD in Nursing at the University of Edinburgh which studied the clinical decision making of intensive care nurses in relation to sedation practices.

Kirsty's current role is as a Research Associate/Research Manager for the Psycho-oncology Co-operative Research Group (PoCoG). PoCoG’s work focuses on caring for the whole person, not just the disease, from the time of diagnosis throughout their whole cancer journey. The role focuses on developing research capacity and co-ordinated collaboration to conduct large-scale, multi-centre psycho-oncology and supportive care research. PoCoG wants to ensure that individuals impacted by cancer (including health care professionals providing care) achieve psychological resilience in the face of a disease that can be both chronic and life-limiting.

Prior to this Kirsty was a Research Fellow for the Sydney Catalyst Flagship Program Embedding Research (and Evidence) in Cancer Healthcare - EnRICH’, a prospective clinical cohort of >1000 patients with lung cancer in New South Wales. She explored the clinical variation in the treatment of patients with lung cancer and assisted in the development, implementation and evaluation of quality improvement interventions to address these unwarranted clinical variations.

She has worked on a range of clinical research projects in her career to date including commercial randomised control trials, investigator led studies and quality improvement studies.