Anne-Lore Scherrens

Anne-Lore Scherrens has a background in Health Education, Health Promotion and Pediatric Nursing. Her doctoral research focussed on the use of a health promotion approach and behavioral theories to gain insight into factors related to palliative care behaviors among people confronted with serious illness. Her postdoctoral research mainly focusses on the testing of a theory-based behavioral intervention designed to promote people with cancer to start a conversation about palliative care with their physician. In addition to this, she actively contributes to impactful projects such as the EU MyPath project, which goal is to develop and implement innovative digital patient centred care pathways; the ZOZOJO project, which focusses on support needs and experiences of adolescents and young adults (AYAs) who are confronted with parental (incurable) cancer; PHYSIOPAL, which aims to develop and evaluate a tailored physiotherapy program for patients with advanced cancer; and COFII, which focusses on the integration of palliative care in phase I oncological trials. She is funded via a postdoctoral grant of the Research Foundation Flanders.