Presenters
Professor Jon Emery
Herman Professor of Primary Care Cancer Research, Director of PC4, Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre (VCCC) Primary Care Research and Education Lead, NHMRC Leadership Fellow
Professor Jon Emery is the Herman Professor of Primary Care Cancer Research at the University of Melbourne, a new Chair developed within the Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre. He is an NHMRC Practitioner Fellow, Director of the Cancer Australia Primary Care Collaborative Cancer Clinical Trials Group (PC4), and a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge. He studied medicine at Cambridge and Oxford and obtained his DPhil at Oxford on computer decision support to assess cancer risk in general practice. His research interests are in the role of primary care in cancer prevention, diagnosis and follow-up, and primary care trials of complex interventions.
Professor Rachel Neale
Deputy Coordinator of the population health department and holds adjunct appointments at the Queensland University of Technology and University of Queensland.
Professor Neale established a program of research into pancreatic cancer, and later into vitamin D. Professor Neale led the development of a newly released pancreatic cancer tool, which presents individual or combinations of signs, symptoms and risk factors in a way that helps indicate the suggested urgency of investigation.
Professor Peter Gibbs
Joint Division Head, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute and Colorectal Oncologist, Western Health
Peter is a leading researcher in medical oncology, with a particular interest in translational research. He has led several international clinical trials and participated in research collaborations within Australia and internationally, culminating in over 200 published articles.
Professor Jenny Philip
Academic Lead, Palliative Care, Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre Alliance
Academic Lead, Palliative Care Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre Alliance; Chair of Palliative Care, University of Melbourne; Physician, Palliative Medicine, St Vincent’s Hospital, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre and Royal Melbourne Hospital. Professor Philip is a palliative care clinician, researcher and educator with an interest in improving ways supportive and palliative care are delivered, ensuring care is underpinned by high quality evidence and that it is delivered by well trained professionals and carers. Her research works to improve patient access to timely, high quality palliative care. Her leadership and direction across the alliance enables research growth and innovation to ensure evidence-based care practices are implemented.