Professor Claire Wakefield will discuss the many initiatives that she has led down in Australia in the wide reaching and very important topic of psychosocial issues that play such a major role in the lives of Pediatric Cancer patients and their families

Professor Claire Wakefield is one of the leading , if not the leading experts concerning psychosocial issues down in Australia. Professor Wakefield will discuss a wide variety of what she has done to help make advances in this critical area for so many residents both "Down Under" and globally as well. Professor Wakefield is considered the most accomplished author in the world when it comes to the subject of childhood cancer survivors in the last decade, as she has helped to publish 235 articles on this obviously critical part of the pediatric cancer fight. One of the most important subjects that is often not talked about but one which Professor Wakefield will highlight, is the role that grandparents play in the family during these children's cancer battles.