Professor Ian Olver AMProfessorial Research Fellow, School of Psychology,Adjunct Professor, School of Public HealthTrained as a medical oncologist, cancer researcher and bioethicist his current research interests are in psycho-oncology, supportive care in cancer and bioethics. Ian is author of over 330 journal articles and is a regular commentator on cancer issues in Australia and internationally.Ian was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for service to medical oncology as a clinician, researcher, administrator and mentor, and to the community through leadership roles with cancer control organisations.Ian Olver graduated MB, BS from the University of Melbourne in 1976, was awarded an MD in 1991 and completed a PhD from Monash University in bioethics in 1997. He also holds a Certificate of Ministry (Lay Preaching) form the Adelaide College of Divinity. He is a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (FRACP), its Chapter of Palliative Medicine (FAChPM) and is was an Associate Fellow of the Royal Australian College of Medical Administrators (ARACMA) until 2020. He became a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Science (AAHMS) in 2016. He trained as a medical oncologist at Peter MacCallum Cancer Institute, the Alfred Hospital, Melbourne and the University of Maryland Cancer Centre in Baltimore. He practised at Peter MaCallum and then at The Royal Adelaide Hospital where he became Clinical Director of the RAH Cancer Centre, and the first Cancer Council SA Professor of Cancer Care at the University of Adelaide and set up tele-oncology links with Darwin, established an oncology clinic in Alice Springs and trained the first medical oncologist for the CMC Hospital in Vellore India. From May 2006 to December 2014 he was appointed CEO, Cancer Council Australia in Sydney and received their Gold Medal in 2104. He held an appointment as Clinical Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Sydney.He returned to SA in 2015 and was Director of the Sansom Institute and then UniSA Cancer Research Institute until 2019. In 2020 he took up his current appointments at University of Adelaide.He is a past chair of the Medical Oncology Group of Australia (MOGA) and received their Cancer Achievement award in 2008 and served on the Clinical Oncology Society of Australia Council and then Board being awarded the Tom Reeve award for "outstanding contributions to caner care" in 2019. He currently chairs the Sax Institute Board in Sydney and the Youth and Young Adults Advisory Board to Canteen in Sydney.He currently consults for Bellberry Ethics and Chairs the MOGA Ethics Committee. He is a past chair of the Australian Health Ethics Committee of NHMRC and sat on NHMRC Council. He is a past President of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer.