Laura Forrest

Senior Research Fellow
Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
Associate Genetic Counsellor
Royal Melbourne Hospital

Melbourne, VIC

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Biography

Dr Laura Forrest is a senior research fellow and leads the Psychosocial Cancer Genomics research team in the Parkville Familial Cancer Centre co-located at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre and Royal Melbourne Hospital.

Laura is also an associate genetic counsellor practising clinically in the Parkville Familial Cancer Centre in addition to her research work.

Laura co-chairs the Research Gender Equity and Diversity Committee at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre and also co-chairs the Australia and New Zealand Chapter of the Li-Fraumeni Syndrome Association.

Laura and her team use mixed methods approaches to examine the psychosocial implications of hereditary cancer syndromes on families, as well as health service and implementation science evaluations of genetic counselling and genetic testing models of care.

Featured

Academic paper

2021

Finding the five-year window: A qualitative study examining young women's decision-making and experience of using tamoxifen to reduce BRCA1/2 breast cancer risk
Academic paper

2019

Evaluation of telephone genetic counselling to facilitate germline BRCA1/2 testing in women with high-grade serous ovarian cancer
Academic paper

2016

Clinically Significant Germline Mutations in Cancer-Causing Genes Identified Through Research Studies Should Be Offered to Research Participants by Genetic Counselors