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== Professor Bettina Meiser ==
Professor Bettina Meiser is a professor at the [[University of New South Wales]], with expertise in the psychosocial aspects of genetics; cancer, hereditary cancer, and the impact of genetic counselling and testing.<ref></ref><ref name=":0"> Prince of Wales Clinical School|website=powcs.med.unsw.edu.au|language=en|access-date=2019-07-26}}</ref>
== Career ==
Meiser is the Head of the Psychosocial Research Group, at the Prince of Wales Clinical School. She holds a [[National Health and Medical Research Council]] (NHMRC) Senior Research Fellowship Level B in addition to multiple research grants from the NHMRC, [[Australian Research Council]], [[Cancer Australia]], NSW Cancer Council, [[Cancer Institute of New South Wales|Cancer Institute NSW]] and the APEX Foundation for Research into Intellectual Disabilities. Meiser has built a nationally and internationally recognised research program that assesses the psychosocial impact of genetic counselling and testing for hereditary disease; psychological adjustment of individuals at risk for hereditary disease; and the design and evaluation of interventions in the cancer genetic counselling setting, in particular decision aids as an innovative means of patient education. She leads a Psychosocial research group at the [[University of New South Wales]].<ref></ref>
Her specific fields of research include Cancer Genetics, Health, Clinical and Counselling Psychology and Psychiatry (incl. Psychotherapy).<ref name=":0" />
Meiser was lead on a project, which developed a website with UNSW, [[Neuroscience Research Australia]] (NeuRA) and collaborators at other universities to address a gap in treatment of psychiatric treatment that is currently not available to people concerned about their own or family members' vulnerability to depression.<ref name=":1">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref>
"There aren't really any specialised [[Genetic counsellor|genetic counsellors]] who cover psychiatric illnesses in Australia," she says.
"The vast majority of genetic counsellors do prenatal genetic counselling or cancer genetic counselling. So we identified a gap and for that reason we set up this website to cater for what we believe is a sizeable group of people."<ref name=":1" />
== Education ==
Meiser has a BAppSc, BA (Hons) and PhD (Syd).<ref name=":0" />
== Awards and recognition ==
Meiser has been awarded the following NHMRC grants:
* <span class="fa fa-flask icon-portal"></span> <small>Principal investigator of Psychosocial aspects of genetic testing and counselling</small>
* <span class="fa fa-flask icon-portal"></span> <small>Principal investigator of Psychosocial implications of genetic counselling and testing</small>
* <span class="fa fa-flask icon-portal"></span> <small>Principal investigator of Genetic screening for haemochromatosis: determinants of uptake of population based screening</small>
* <span class="fa fa-flask icon-portal"></span> <small>Principal investigator of a randomised trial of a decision aid for women at increased risk for ovarian cancer</small>
* <span class="fa fa-flask icon-portal"></span> <small>Participant in Psychosocial predictors of developing breast cancer in women from high risk breast cancer families.</small><ref></ref>
Her scientific standing is demonstrated by her contributions to the following scientific boards, ethics and research committees:
* Executive Advisory Board, Breast Cancer Campaign, United Kingdom, since 2012
* Psychosocial Section Editor, European Journal of Human Genetics, since 2011
* Member of Editorial Board, Familial Cancer, since 2013
* Member of Scientific Committee for International Meetings on Psychosocial Aspects of Hereditary Cancer, since 2007
* Chair, Human Research Ethics Committee, The Cancer Council of New South Wales, 2003-2012
* Cancer Research Committee, The Cancer Council of New South Wales, 2008-2012
* Secretary, Ethical and Social Issues Committee, Human Genetics Society of Australasia, 2005-2012
* Scientific Advisory Committee, Psycho-Oncology Cooperative Group (PoCoG), 2007-2010. <ref></ref>
== Media ==
Meiser was interviewed on her work on fears on depression due to genes.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref> on her work published in BMC Psychiatry.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref>
Her work on risk of depression was published in Lab and Life.<ref></ref>
The website for family depression and it's production are described in a video by Good Eye Dear.<ref></ref>
== References ==
Professor Bettina Meiser is a professor at the [[University of New South Wales]], with expertise in the psychosocial aspects of genetics; cancer, hereditary cancer, and the impact of genetic counselling and testing.<ref></ref><ref name=":0"> Prince of Wales Clinical School|website=powcs.med.unsw.edu.au|language=en|access-date=2019-07-26}}</ref>
== Career ==
Meiser is the Head of the Psychosocial Research Group, at the Prince of Wales Clinical School. She holds a [[National Health and Medical Research Council]] (NHMRC) Senior Research Fellowship Level B in addition to multiple research grants from the NHMRC, [[Australian Research Council]], [[Cancer Australia]], NSW Cancer Council, [[Cancer Institute of New South Wales|Cancer Institute NSW]] and the APEX Foundation for Research into Intellectual Disabilities. Meiser has built a nationally and internationally recognised research program that assesses the psychosocial impact of genetic counselling and testing for hereditary disease; psychological adjustment of individuals at risk for hereditary disease; and the design and evaluation of interventions in the cancer genetic counselling setting, in particular decision aids as an innovative means of patient education. She leads a Psychosocial research group at the [[University of New South Wales]].<ref></ref>
Her specific fields of research include Cancer Genetics, Health, Clinical and Counselling Psychology and Psychiatry (incl. Psychotherapy).<ref name=":0" />
Meiser was lead on a project, which developed a website with UNSW, [[Neuroscience Research Australia]] (NeuRA) and collaborators at other universities to address a gap in treatment of psychiatric treatment that is currently not available to people concerned about their own or family members' vulnerability to depression.<ref name=":1">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref>
"There aren't really any specialised [[Genetic counsellor|genetic counsellors]] who cover psychiatric illnesses in Australia," she says.
"The vast majority of genetic counsellors do prenatal genetic counselling or cancer genetic counselling. So we identified a gap and for that reason we set up this website to cater for what we believe is a sizeable group of people."<ref name=":1" />
== Education ==
Meiser has a BAppSc, BA (Hons) and PhD (Syd).<ref name=":0" />
== Awards and recognition ==
Meiser has been awarded the following NHMRC grants:
* <span class="fa fa-flask icon-portal"></span> <small>Principal investigator of Psychosocial aspects of genetic testing and counselling</small>
* <span class="fa fa-flask icon-portal"></span> <small>Principal investigator of Psychosocial implications of genetic counselling and testing</small>
* <span class="fa fa-flask icon-portal"></span> <small>Principal investigator of Genetic screening for haemochromatosis: determinants of uptake of population based screening</small>
* <span class="fa fa-flask icon-portal"></span> <small>Principal investigator of a randomised trial of a decision aid for women at increased risk for ovarian cancer</small>
* <span class="fa fa-flask icon-portal"></span> <small>Participant in Psychosocial predictors of developing breast cancer in women from high risk breast cancer families.</small><ref></ref>
Her scientific standing is demonstrated by her contributions to the following scientific boards, ethics and research committees:
* Executive Advisory Board, Breast Cancer Campaign, United Kingdom, since 2012
* Psychosocial Section Editor, European Journal of Human Genetics, since 2011
* Member of Editorial Board, Familial Cancer, since 2013
* Member of Scientific Committee for International Meetings on Psychosocial Aspects of Hereditary Cancer, since 2007
* Chair, Human Research Ethics Committee, The Cancer Council of New South Wales, 2003-2012
* Cancer Research Committee, The Cancer Council of New South Wales, 2008-2012
* Secretary, Ethical and Social Issues Committee, Human Genetics Society of Australasia, 2005-2012
* Scientific Advisory Committee, Psycho-Oncology Cooperative Group (PoCoG), 2007-2010. <ref></ref>
== Media ==
Meiser was interviewed on her work on fears on depression due to genes.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref> on her work published in BMC Psychiatry.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref>
Her work on risk of depression was published in Lab and Life.<ref></ref>
The website for family depression and it's production are described in a video by Good Eye Dear.<ref></ref>
== References ==
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