Prof. Stephen Ackland is Professor, Faculty of Health, University of Newcastle and Consultant Medical Oncologist at Lake MacQuarie Oncology. He is an Executive member, Hunter Cancer Research Alliance; Director, University of Newcastle Priority Research Centre for Cancer Research Innovation and Translation; Director of Clinical Cancer Research Network HNE Health; Co-director of Hunter Medical Research Institute Cancer Research Program; Director, Australasian GastroIntestinal Trials Group. He has played a key role in organisation, harmonisation and enhancements of translational and clinical research locally, on a state basis and nationally. He is Editor-in-Chief, Asia-Pacific Journal of Clinical Oncology. He was previously the Director of Hunter Cancer Research Alliance (2011-2019),  and was an inaugural member of the PRIMe consortium (Pharmacogenomics Research towards Individualised Medicine), a NSW Cancer Council-funded collaboration of 8 NSW hospitals and research institutes with the aim of facilitating cancer pharmacogenomics research in NSW (2011-2016).