Prue Cormie

A new contender in the fight against cancer

TEDxPerth 2015
November 2015

Talk length:

12.21mins

A new contender in the fight against cancer | Prue Cormie | TEDxPerth

Exercise is, of course, important for health - but new research indicates that exercise can make cancer treatments both more tolerable and more effective. Might exercise be something that doctors could prescribe?

Prue Cormie is committed to improving the health and lives of people with cancer. Her research has led her to this conclusion: exercise should be part of a doctor’s prescription toolkit.

Prue is a Principal Research Fellow at Australian Catholic University’s Institute for Health and Ageing and an Accredited Exercise Physiologist. Her research and clinical work focuses on the role of exercise in the management of cancer. She has practiced and researched in various exercise clinics and research laboratories in Australia and the United States and has a PhD in exercise science.

Prue Cormie
Exercise and cancer researcher

Prue Cormie is committed to improving the health and lives of people with cancer. Her research has led her to this conclusion: exercise should be part of a doctor’s prescription toolkit.

Prue is a Principal Research Fellow at Australian Catholic University’s Institute for Health and Ageing and an Accredited Exercise Physiologist whose research and clinical work focuses on the role of exercise in the management of cancer. She has practiced and researched in various exercise clinics and research laboratories in Australia and the United States and has a PhD in exercise science. She presents regularly at international conferences and has published widely in scientific journals and textbooks.

She is a passionate science communicator with over 50 presentations in the last five years to a variety of groups within the community including cancer patients, clinicians, allied health professionals and general audiences.