Today we meet Professor David Currow, who you might already know through his long career in cancer care and research and palliative care. David is currently a Deputy Vice-Chancellor at the University of Wollongong. He is the former Chief Cancer Officer for New South Wales and former Chief Executive Officer of the Cancer Institute of NSW. Before that, he was the foundation Chief Executive Officer of Cancer Australia, the Australian Government’s cancer control agency. David is a previous president of Palliative Care Australia and, separately, the Clinical Oncological Society of Australia. In 2015, David received the Tom Reeve National Award for Outstanding Contribution to Cancer Care. David co-founded the Australian National Palliative Care Outcomes Collaboration - a national data set for quality improvement in palliative care. And this September i ...