Post-Doctoral Research Fellow with the Behavioural Sciences Unit, School of Women’s and Children’s Health at UNSW Sydney and the Sydney Children’s Hospital.
Dr Signorelli received a grant from Neuroblastoma Australia in 2019 for her project Improving the long-term health of Australian childhood cancer survivors. This study will be the first Australian database recording long term effects of childhood cancer treatments on survivors.
Dr Signorelli has been a researcher at the Behavioural Sciences Unit, Kids Cancer Centre, for over five years and has been involved in a large body of work examining Australian childhood cancer survivors’ physical and mental health. She has been developing a model of care to reduce survivors’ risk of chronic health problems and the natural next step was to develop a national childhood cancer database, to investigate the long-term health risks associated with cancer and its treatments.
Ultimately, the wealth of information collected in this database will be used to help us create resources and interventions to manage the impact of treatment-related conditions in survivors, and inform future treatment protocols to prevent some of these conditions altogether.
In addition to Dr Christina Signorelli, this study will also be led by Prof Claire Wakefield and Prof Richard Cohn at the Kids Cancer Centre, located within Sydney Children’s Hospital and UNSW Sydney.
