Dr Angela Ives is a Research Fellow for CaPCREU, UWA. Angela has worked in both the public and private health sector in both Australia and the UK. She has experience of quantitative and qualitative research methods, has published widely and gained over a one million dollars in grant and scholarship funding. Her work involves developing and undertaking research and evaluation projects to improve care for patients, and their families, diagnosed with cancer in WA. She has worked on many projects whose results have been utilised to guide policy and improve care locally, nationally and internationally. This has included work to improve care for young women diagnosed with breast cancer who have a concurrent or subsequent pregnancy, guided changes in data retrieval methodologies and service review to improve care using data linkage and patient reported outcomes.