Jon Emery is the Professor of Family Medicine and Director of the recently established Centre for Cancer Prevention and Early Detection at the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University. He was previously the Professor of Primary Care Cancer Research at the University of Melbourne where he remains an Honorary Professor.
Jon is an internationally recognised leader in primary care cancer research with specific expertise in the development and evaluation of complex interventions including novel cancer diagnostic and screening technologies, clinical translation of genomics, computer decision support systems, models of cancer survivorship, and use of linked healthcare data to study variations in cancer care.
Following his medical training at Cambridge and Oxford, he has had a highly successful career in academic primary care, initially at Oxford, where he obtained his DPhil on cancer risk assessment tools, then as a Cancer Research UK Clinician Scientist at Cambridge before taking up a Chair at the University of Western Australia. He moved to the University of Melbourne in 2013 for a Chair linked to the establishment of the Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre where he led the creation of one of the largest cancer in primary care research groups in the world.