Dr Lara Edbrooke is a physiotherapist with more than 20 years rehabilitation experience. Lara is the Allied Health Research Development co-lead at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre and a senior lecturer within the Physiotherapy Department at the University of Melbourne. She completed her PhD in 2019 investigating the effects of a home-based multi-disciplinary rehabilitation program for people with inoperable lung cancer. With a 2020 Cancer Council Victoria fellowship she undertook a cost-effectiveness analysis of this intervention. Lara is a current Victorian Cancer Agency early career research fellow. Her key interests focus on improving outcomes for people with cancer through the development of novel models of multi-disciplinary care, technology use and the measurement of physical activity.

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Department of Health Services Research, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Department of Physiotherapy and The Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology, The University of Melbourne

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