Cancer Australia

MD PhD CMin FRACP MRACMA FAChPM

Professor Olver is the Chief Executive Officer, The Cancer Council Australia.  He trained as a medical oncologist and received the Cancer Achievement Award from the Medical Oncology Group of Australia in 2008.  Amongst other committees, he is a member of the Advisory Council to Cancer Australia and the Palliative Care Working Group of the European Society of Medical Oncology.  He chairs the Research Ethics Committee of the New South Wales Cancer Institute.

An Aboriginal and South Sea Islander woman from north Queensland in Australia, Associate Professor Elston is a descendent of the Kalkadoon people of north-east Queensland.  Wife and mother of two school age children, Jacinta was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2003.  Jacinta holds the position of Associate Dean Indigenous Health in Faculty of Medicine, Health and Molecular Sciences at James Cook University in Townsville and serves on numerous governing and advisory committees nationally and internationally.  She is a Master’s graduate with Public Health and Tropical Medicine qualifications from James Cook University.  Her Masters was received in 1998 and her Diploma in 1994.