Biography:
Buchan completed her undergraduate dual degree in Biology and Exercise and Sports Science at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill in 2007. She then gained a Master of Health Sciences from the University of Notre Dame-Australia in 2010, where she led the establishment of a student-led rehabilitation and staff fitness exercise clinic, still in existence today. During this time, she also gained her Exercise Physiologist accreditation with Exercise and Sports Science Australia. After a one-year Eurotrip break, Jena joined the iHOP cancer research group at Queensland University of Technology (QUT; Australia). Here she completed her PhD under Professor Sandi Hayes, running a randomised controlled trial looking at the physical and psychosocial impacts of exercise in women with breast cancer-related lymphoedema (completed 2015). Since this time, Dr Buchan has been an academic in exercise science and physiology, including work-integrated learning lead, currently working at Southern Cross University (Gold Coast, Australia). She also actively practices as an Accredited Exercise Physiologist, with a specialisation in oncology.
Title : When evidence or experience isn’t there: the importance of the client in ‘evidence-based practice’