Professor Dr. Lisa Barbera

Biography

Dr. Barbera is a nationally and internationally recognized health services researcher and radiation oncologist. In 2018, she moved from Toronto to Calgary to become the Head of Radiation Oncology at the Tom Baker Cancer Centre at the University of Calgary. Her academic interests include health services research, quality care, and symptom management utilizing large sources of administrative health care data. Dr. Barbera has published extensively on health service use among end-of-life cancer patients and has conducted significant work employing unique patient-reported symptom datasets in Ontario. She was the provincial lead for the patient-reported outcomes program at Cancer Care Ontario, gaining considerable knowledge in using patient-reported outcomes in routine care. She maintains an active clinical practice focused on breast cancer and has years of experience treating gynecologic malignancies. Her work primarily involves using large administrative health data sets to study the health care service use at the end of life, reflecting the quality of end-of-life care.

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