Professor Lisa Beatty

Lisa Beatty is a Professor in Clinical Psychology at Flinders University, and a visiting Consulting Clinical Psychologist in Medical Oncology at Southern Adelaide Local Health Network. She has over 20 years of research and clinical expertise in the field of psycho-oncology (the scientific exploration of the psychological impact of cancer diagnosis and treatment).

Within this field, Prof Beatty specialises in digital psycho-oncology interventions, a strategy that aims to deliver evidence-based psychological treatments to those who may not be able to access them due to their health status, distance, or stigma. Lisa has led or supervised the development of multiple evidence-based digital psycho-oncology programs, including Finding My Way, Finding My Way-Advanced, and Healthy Living after Cancer-Online. Finding My Way is now a freely available online resource for the Australian cancer community and has been trialled by researchers in UK and USA.

Key career achievements include attracting 4.5 years of fellowship funding from Cancer Council SA, and over $4.5M in competitive project grant funding from a range of funders including National Health and Medical Research Council, Cancer Australia, Medical Research Future Fund, Beat Cancer Project, NorthWest Cancer Research, and Flinders Foundation. Lisa has published over 70 journal articles and 2 book chapters.

Prof Beatty is the Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC) Deputy Chair for the Psycho-Oncology Cooperative Research Group (PoCoG), and SAC Member for Breast Cancer Trials, two national cancer clinical trials groups funded by Cancer Australia.

Clinically, Prof Beatty sees adults affected by cancer at the Flinders Cancer Wellness Centre, a public psychology outpatient clinic, and supervises provisional psychologists on placement there.