Associate Professor Lynn Oldham
Associate Professor Oldham held a joint appointment with Curtin University of Technology and Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital where she was the Director of the Cancer and Palliative Care Division until June 2007.
Currently, she is the Deputy Director of the WACCPC and is a Research Consultant for the Silver Chain Hospice Care Service. In 2004 A/Prof Oldham was awarded the inaugural NHMRC Post Doctoral Research Fellowship—Palliative Care and has a PhD in Nursing from ECU. In 2007 she was awarded Nurse Researcher of the Year by the Nurses and Midwives Board of WA. A/Prof Oldham has a strong background in clinical practice, education and research in palliative care across settings. She has worked among the Western Australian palliative care community for over 20 years, has developed sound collaborative links with national and local service providers and consequently has a very clear understanding of issues related to community palliative care.
A/Prof Oldham’s main area of research involves intervention studies and she is developing high levels skills in conducting randomized controlled trials in the palliative care population. Current projects include exploring the grief experiences of community palliative care nurses in order to develop appropriate workplace support and education, implementation and evaluation of a rural palliative care service, several family carer intervention studies, development and implementation of an educational program to guide a palliative approach to care for people with Motor Neurone Disease and determining and meetings the needs of Grade III-IV Glioma patients and their carers. She is also the Chief investigator for WA in the Palliative Care Clinical Studies Collaborative.
