A/Prof Michael Jefford
MBBS MPH MHlthServMt PhD MRACMA FRACP
Medical Oncology
Dept of Medical Oncology
Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
Associate Professor Michael Jefford is a consultant medical oncologist at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, clinical consultant with the Cancer Information and Support Service (a unit of The Cancer Council Victoria) and an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Melbourne.
He completed medical oncology training in 1999. He also holds a PhD from the University of Melbourne (2002) and Masters degrees in Health Services Management (2003) and in Public Health (2006) from Monash University.
A/Prof Jefford maintains senior leadership roles in several state and national organisations. Amongst these, he is Chair of the Quality of Life Committee of the Australasian Gastrointestinal Trials Group, a member of the State Accreditation Committee of BreastScreen Victoria and a member of the Executive Committee of the Victorian Cooperative Oncology Group (The Cancer Council Victoria). Until recently he was Chair of the Specialist Advisory Committee in Medical Oncology (Royal Australasian College of Physicians) and a member of the Executive of the national Psycho-oncology Cooperative Research Group.
In his five years at Peter Mac he has been awarded $2m in research funding (listed as a Chief / (co) Principal Investigator). This has included funding from the NHMRC; state Cancer Councils, the Commonwealth Government, Leukaemia Foundation and the Peter MacCallum Cancer Foundation. His research interests focus on supportive care and patient-centred outcomes and on the management of people with gastrointestinal cancers. He has published over 50 peer-reviewed manuscripts and has presented work at several international meetings covering cancer control, clinical oncology and psycho-oncology.