Martina Ospelt MSc
Research Assistant (Prof. Gisela Michel)
T +41 41 229 59 38 • Alpenquai 4, Room 6 • martina.ospelt@unilu.ch
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Martina Ospelt holds a Master’s degree with a specialization in Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine as well as Social Neuroscience and Social Psychology from the University of Bern. Before that, she received her Bachelor’s degree in Psychology with a minor in Business Administration also from the University of Bern. Throughout her studies, she worked as a student assistant at the Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy at the University of Bern and completed a research internship in sleep research at the University Hospital of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy in Bern. For her master’s thesis, she conducted case studies to determine the role of psychological variables in a telerehabilitation application for post-stroke aphasia. In October 2022, she started her PhD in the project “The long shadow of childhood cancer: problems with insurance, legal and financial issues after childhood cancer as experienced by parents, survivors, and experts" (Shadow Project) at the University of Lucerne.
Publications
- Michel, G., Holmer, P., & Ospelt, M. I. (2025). Fertility‐Related Concerns in Survivors of Childhood Cancer: A Systematic Review. Cancer Medicine, 14 (13), e71045 ff. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16948559
- Ospelt, M. I., & Michel, G. (2025). Attending Childhood Cancer Follow-Up Care: Travel Time, Disparities and Health—A Canadian Cohort Study. Psycho-Oncology. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1002/pon.70344
- Ospelt, M. I., Kälin, S., Roser, K., & Michel, G. (2025). Parental employment adjustment during and after childhood cancer treatment — a report from the Swiss Childhood Cancer Survivor Study‑Parents. Supportive Care in Cancer, 33, 556 ff. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15747615
- Ospelt, M. I., Holmer, P., Michel, G., Kälin, S., & Roser, K. (2024). Insurance, legal, and financial hardships of childhood and adolescent cancer survivors - a systematic review. Journal of Cancer Survivorship. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17341841
Achievements
- The long shadow of childhood cancer: a qualitative study on insurance, legal, and financial hardships faced by childhood cancer survivors. Poster, Congress of the International Society of Paediatric Oncology (SIOP), Society of Paediatric Oncology (SIOP), Amsterdam, 2025
- The insurance, legal, and financial situation of parents of childhood and adolescent cancer survivors: a systematic review. Poster, Congress of the International Society of Paediatric Oncology (SIOP), Society of Paediatric Oncology (SIOP), Amsterdam, 2025
- Attending Childhood Cancer Follow-up Care: Travel time, disparities and health – a Canadian cohort study. Poster, 57th Congress of the International Society of Paediatric Oncology (SIOP), International Society of Paediatric Oncology (SIOP), Amsterdam, 2025
- Parental Career Adaptations Throughout and Beyond Childhood Cancer Treatment in Switzerland - A report from the Swiss Childhood Cancer Survivor Study-Parents. Lecture, 22nd American Psychosocial Oncology Society (APOS) Conference, American Psychosocial Oncology Society (APOS), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 2025
- Insurance, legal, and financial hardships of childhood and adolescent cancer survivors - A systematic review. Poster, 22nd American Psychosocial Oncology Society (APOS) Conference, American Psychosocial Oncology Society (APOS), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 2025
- Career evolution: Parental adaptations throughout and beyond childhood cancer treatment in Switzerland - A report from the Swiss Childhood Cancer Survivor Study - Parents. Lecture, Research Symposium Health, HSLU Hochschule Luzern; University of Lucerne; XUND, Lucerne, 2025
- The long shadow of childhood cancer: insurance, legal and financial hardships faced by parents of childhood cancer survivors. Lecture, Research Symposium Health Lucerne, Universität Luzern, Luzern, 2025
- Career evolution: Parental adaptations throughout and beyond childhood cancer treatment in Switzerland – A report from the Swiss Childhood Cancer Survivor Study-Parents. Poster, 56th Congress of the International Society of Paediatric Oncology (SIOP), International Society of Paediatric Oncology (SIOP), Honolulu, Hawaii, 2024
- THE COSTS OF CHILDHOOD CANCER - Insurance, Legal, and Financial Hardships of Childhood and Adolescent Cancer Survivors – A Systematic Review. Poster, 56th Congress of the International Society of Paediatric Oncology (SIOP), International Society of Paediatric Oncology (SIOP), Honolulu, Hawaii, 2024
- Career evolution: Parental adaptations throughout and beyond childhood cancer treatment in Switzerland – A report from the Swiss Childhood Cancer Survivor Study-Parents. Lecture, 56th Congress of the International Society of Paediatric Oncology (SIOP), International Society of Paediatric Oncology (SIOP), Honolulu, Hawaii, 2024
- Family burden among parents of children with cancer using multilevel latent profile analysis: A report from the Swiss Childhood Cancer Survivor Study – Parents. Poster, International Symposium on Late Complications after Childhood Cancer (ISLCCC), ISLCCC, Lucerne, 2024
- Heterogeneity of family burden among parents of children with cancer. Lecture, 2nd Research Symposium Health Lucerne, University of Lucerne, Hochschule Luzern, Xund, Lucerne, 2024
- The long shadow of childhood cancer: Insurance, legal, and financial hardships - perspectives of parents, survivors, and experts in Switzerland. Lecture, 2nd Research Symposium Health Lucerne, University of Lucerne, Hochschule Luzern, Xund, Lucerne, 2024
- Insurance, Legal, and Financial Hardships of Childhood and Adolescent Cancer Survivors and their Parents – A Systematic Review. Lecture, 29th PanCare Meeting, PanCare network, Gent, 2023
- Variability in parents’ family burden during their child’s cancer. Lecture, IPOS 2023 World Congress, IPOS, Milano, 2023
- Differences in mothers’ and fathers’ perception of family burden due to their child’s cancer. Lecture, SPOG SSPHO Scientific Meeting 2023, SPOG SSPHO, Bern, 2023
- The Costs of Childhood Cancer: Insurance, Legal, and Financial Hardships of Childhood Cancer Survivors and their Parents - A Systematic Review. Poster, 24th IPOS World Congress of Psycho-Oncology, International Psycho-Oncolocy Society (IPOS), Mailand, 2023
