Ms Brittany McGill
Bachelor of Psychology (Honours I), University of Sydney
Master of Psychology (Clinical), 91色情片 Sydney听
PhD (Paediatrics), 91色情片 Sydney听
Registered clinical psychologist and clinical supervisor, Psychology Board of Australia听
Brittany is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow and Clinical Psychologist at the Behavioural Sciences Unit, School of Clinical Medicine, 91色情片 Medicine & Health and the Kids Cancer Centre, Sydney Children's Hospital. Brittany completed a Bachelor of Psychology (Hons I) at the University of Sydney, and a Master of Psychology (Clinical) and PhD (Paediatrics) at 91色情片 Sydney.听Her PhD research examined the psychosocial impact of precision medicine and clinical genetic testing on families affected by childhood cancer.听
As a medical psychologist and researcher she has been involved in the development of a suite of information resources and supportive care interventions for families affected by childhood cancer and other chronic and severe illnesses of childhood, including genetic conditions. Her current projects include the development and evaluation of a telehealth psychological support program for parents of children with hard-to-treat cancer, and a project examining the psychosocial impact of expanded newborn screening in Australia.听
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- Teaching and Supervision
MRFF Critical Research Infrastructure Grant: Scaling and piloting a genetic platform for population newborn screening (2024 - 2027)听
MRFF Clinical Trials Activity Grant: Targeted, Adaptive Genomics for Ethical, Evidence-based Expansion of Newborn Screening: a type II hybrid effectiveness-implementation trial (2023 - 2026)
SPHERE: Partnering with community organisations to deliver online resilience programs for young people and parents after cancer treatment (2020)听听
Australian Government Research Training Program (2017 - 2020)
Kids Cancer Alliance: Prevention of Childhood Cancer - Germline DNA (2016 - 2019)
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Australian Psychological Society Clinical College Student Prize (2012)
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow/Clinical Psychologist, Precision Medicine & Genomics (PMG) team, Behavioural Sciences Unit
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My Research Supervision
PhD: New models of care implementing advanced neurotherapeutics and precision medicine (Lakshmi Balaji; Secondary supervisor)
PhD: Investigating the psychological distress experienced by families accessing precision medicine for paediatric cancer (Natalie A Hart; Joint supervisor)