Professor Craig Underhill is a medical oncologist at Albury-Wodonga Regional Cancer and Wellness Centre. He is conjoint Associate Professor at the University of NSW Clinical School in Albury, and Adjunct Professor at Charles Sturt University. After training in Melbourne and working as a research fellow at Guys Hospital London and Ludwig Institute Melbourne, he led the development of a medical oncology service in Albury-Wodonga and established an independent not-for-profit Clinical Trials Unit (Border Medical Oncology Research Unit) which has twice been awarded NSW Premier’s Award for Innovation in Cancer Clinical Trials.
He is an advocate for the increased access to clinical trials for regional Victorians and leads the Victorian Teletrials Collaboration. This program has operationalised teletrial methodology (aka decentralized clinical trials). He is led a health services research program awarded by the Australian Government for AUD$18.5million over 5 years to implement improve clinical trial capacity and conduct health services research via telehealth across the Regional Trials Network – Victoria. This project focused on place -based solutions for improving access clinical trials for regional Victorians, including co-design with Aboriginal people with cancer to develop community-led resources to improve knowledge of clinical trials and improve understanding of cultural safety and practice for clinical trial providers.
