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Towards the Future: New Leadership and State of the Art Technology, 2011–2019

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From 2010, there were major changes in the leadership and the administration of the VCR. In 2014, Cancer Council Victoria separated completely from the Victorian government and the VCR was transferred to state control. Graham Giles stepped down as director. He was replaced by his long-time offsider Helen Farrugia. With the support of a new Council CEO Todd Harper, she accelerated the registry’s technological advancement and increased its utility to new areas of research and cancer control policy, notably in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cancer research and in supporting genetic counselling. Even as these major administrative and operational changes occurred, the VCR continued to expand its research contributions in existing areas and became a key part of world cancer benchmarking efforts. The result is that, today, these contributions have expanded the opportunities for the VCR’s future. In 2019, Farrugia resigned and was replaced by current director Sue Evans, who ran the registry through the difficult COVID-19 pandemic and the first assessments of its effects on cancer. Moving forward, she will take the registry in new and exciting directions, supported by impressive technological capabilities and new horizons in cancer research.

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    The Grant was: 2000–2000 Victorian Family Cancer Register G Giles Department Human Services $200,000.

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Kehoe, T. (2022). Towards the Future: New Leadership and State of the Art Technology, 2011–2019. In: Cancer Data For Good. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-4987-6_7

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