Professor Jon Emery is the Herman Professor of Primary Care Cancer Research at the University of Melbourne, and the Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre Primary Care Research and Education Lead. He is also Director of the Cancer Australia Primary Care Collaborative Cancer Clinical Trials Group (PC4), and a Visiting Research Fellow at the Department of Public Health and Primary Care, 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 program applies principles of implementation science and focuses on the role of primary care across the cancer continuum including prevention, early diagnosis and survivorship, aiming to improve the integration of health services. He leads a parallel program of cancer research between Melbourne and Cambridge on cancer screening, risk assessment and early diagnosis. He has published over 240 papers and has been a Chief Investigator on research grants and awards totaling over $35 million and an additional GBP16 million. He sits on several national and international advisory committees related to cancer early detection and survivorship, and cancer research.
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Implementing a nurse-enabled, integrated, shared-care model involving specialists and general practitioners in breast cancer post-treatment follow-up: a study protocol for a phase II randomised controlled trial (the EMINENT trial).
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PC4 (Primary Care Collaborative Cancer Clinical Trials Group)
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Personalising bowel cancer detection
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The Impact of a Comprehensive Risk Prediction Model for Colorectal Cancer on a Population ..
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Transforming early detection of cancer in primary care
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What's gone wrong with managing bowel cancer in Australia?
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Barriers and facilitators to colorectal cancer diagnosis in New Zealand: a qualitative stu..
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Positions
Herman Chair Of Primary Care Cancer Research
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Education
Doctor of Philosophy
University of Oxford
Master of Arts
University of Cambridge
Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery
University of Oxford
Bachelor of Arts
University of Cambridge