Dr. Christopher Jackson

Biography

Chris Jackson is a Consultant Medical Oncologist with the Southern Blood and Cancer Service (Southern DHB) and Senior Lecturer in Medicine with the University of Otago. He was awarded the Graham Aitken Nuffield travelling Scholarship to complete his Fellowship in the United Kingdom. He initially took up a position as Clinical Research Fellow in the Gastrointestinal Cancer Unit of the Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, and was later appointed to Locum Consultant at the Trust. Over this time, he oversaw the development and opening of a satellite Royal Marsden treatment service imbedded in a local hospital environment. Returning to New Zealand for family and lifestyle reasons, he commenced his present post in 2008. He is currently lead for Cancer Trials at the Southern Blood and Cancer Centre, an active investigator in several collaborative clinical studies, Principal Investigator in the Cancer Immunology Therapeutics Research Group at the University of Otago, and Scientific Advisor to Cancer Trials NZ and the Centre for Translational Cancer Research. Chris is currently Chair of the South Island Bowel Cancer Working Group and a member of the National Bowel Cancer Work Group. Current projects include Genetics of Chemotherapy Toxicity, Immunotherapies in Colorectal Cancer, and he is the Clinical Lead for the PIPER colorectal cancer outcomes project. His clinical interests are gastrointestinal cancer and lymphoma.

Research Interest

gastrointestinal cancer and lymphoma.