A/Prof Laura Forrest PhD

🔔 big changes by @inheritedcaus This is a progressive and inclusive move by the Pink Hope board and will no doubt result in greater advocacy and support for individuals and their families with inherited cancer.

Loved catching up with friends and colleagues at this year’s @HGSAAustralasia ASM. Here is half of the class of 2004 who graduated from the Uni of Newcastle Grad Dip Genetic Counselling. 20 years as genetic counsellors!! @GCAustralasia

What are the key motivations & barriers to consumers when partnering with #CancerResearch teams? 🤔 This topic is explored in a new study by JL Waterland, C Beer, @Rowan_ForbShep, @LEForrest from @PeterMacCC & @unimelb. Access the full paper here 👇 link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Super proud of Tessa Gatt-Rutter who completed this brilliant piece of work reviewing consumer attitudes and preferences toward psychiatric genetic counselling and educational resources during her MGH @UniMelb internship at the Genomic Medicine @TheRMH pdf.sciencedirectassets.com/271173/1-s2.0-…

@purton_louise is speaking at our Lea Awards today where we reward and acknowledge our female researchers. She has given us an incredibly deep insight into her own journey as a woman, a woman with disability, and a female researcher in our society. Please follow her on X.

What an awe-inspiring day we've had at the Peter Mac Women in Science Symposium. A stellar lineup of speakers who are paving the way for #women and leading in their fields. Big thanks to all our speakers for their impactful, inspiring words. 📽️ full symposium vid coming soon

Join us for a HUGE celebration of women in science - next Friday, March 1 form 9:30am. Register here: forms.office.com/Pages/Response…

Absolutely delighted to share this ⬇️ Who is joining us on Feb 8th? To register, email Joanne.Isbister@mh.org.au @prisma_group_ @dmorenodeluca @GCAustralasia @HGSAAustralasia

A laughable “greetings of the day” email… It’s fair to say that 🪴 plant 🌱 science is not my forte. My closest appreciation of plant sciences are liquids distilled from juniper berries and fermented 🍇 #predatoryconferences @AcademicChatter publicationethics.org/predatory-publ…

@mahtabm81 @UniMelb Congrats Dr @mahtabm81!! I am so excited to hear this. You are an inspiring champion of women in science

I celebrated my Ph.D. graduation at @unimelb this week! I want to dedicate my award to my mum and my late grandmothers. Women have traditionally had less opportunities than men & I am thankful to the women in my life who paved the way for the next generation. #PhD #womeninstem

@RosieOShea5 @GCAustralasia @theAGNC Great to see @ShelbyT75935354 made it in time for #GCAD2023! Such an asset to the Dublin GC team

@Stephthepsych @fstutzin 🎉 amazing!! Can’t wait for this to roll out internationally. Going to be so useful for triaging for clinical genetics services

Delighted to say that we're one step closer to making the patient facing version of our #CanRisk tool available for wider use. Thanks to some incredible work by Tim and @fstutzin, #MyCanRisk passed its accessibility testing this morning 🥳 - we're now compliant with WCAG 2.2⭐️

I am constantly in awe of my research team members who contribute to the practice and process of genetic counseling daily. We are research and academic GCs! Thank you to my team for their commitment and dedication @Bec_Purvis @sharne_limb @AmyRuscigno

Incredibly grateful to be awarded a clinical services grant from @UniMelb MGC program to improve local practice in psychiatric genetic counselling along with the very wonderful @JoshSchultz16 for his work in implicit bias. Watch this space in 2024 as we create more opportunities.

Great visual of breast cancer risk factors that combine for a comprehensive risk assessment. This risk assessment is the first step needed for risk-stratified cancer screening. Presented by @DrKaraBritt on behalf of Prof Paul James @PeterMacRes #cancerprevention #vccca23

Amazing fundraiser for breast cancer prevention organised by Rochelle McKenry for @pinkhopeaus! Delighted to be attending to talk about our breast cancer prevention practice and research @PeterMacCC @PeterMacRes @PeterMacHSR #cancerprevention

I will be travelling to Canada to attain knowledge and experience in psychiatric genetics to improve patient care and quality of service at @TheRMH I could not have done this without the significant support of @TheRMH J L Frew Travelling Fellowship. We are making a difference!

The #FAC2023 meeting has kicked off with a fascinating presentation by A/Prof Kristy Brown @BrownLab_WCM about the role of overweight and obesity on the development of breast cancer for high risk women with BRCA1/2 Opportunities for cancer prevention #kconfab

New in #npjBCancer, @jocelippey and colleagues report on an Australian online breast cancer screening decision aid (define) that impacts understanding, acceptance, and decision making @LEForrest @PeterMacCC @PeterMacHSR @LouiseKeoghMDHS go.nature.com/458rBo1

New research alert: Garvan research genetic counsellor @LucasAMitchell published a scoping review outlining opportunities to increase the visibility of LGBTQIA+ people in healthcare: Read more here: doi.org/10.1016/j.pec.…