Professor Michael Jefford is a Consultant Medical Oncologist at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre. He is the Director of the Australian Cancer Survivorship Centre and leads the Survivorship and Living Well After Cancer research program with the Department of Health Services Research. He is also a Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne.

Professor Jefford completed his medical oncology training (FRACP) in 1999 and holds a PhD (2002) and Graduate Certificate in University Teaching (2013) from the University of Melbourne and Masters degrees in Health Services Management (2003) and in Public Health (2006) from Monash University. He is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

His major clinical focus is on the management of people with gastrointestinal cancers. Most of his research has a cancer survivorship focus. He has been awarded A$23m in grant funding as a chief / principal investigator. He has numerous leadership roles including being a Board Member (Director) of the Clinical Oncology Society of Australia (COSA). He leads the survivorship study group with the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer, and has held similar roles with COSA, the American Society of Clinical Oncology and the International Psycho-Oncology Society. He is the first Australian to gain the Fellow of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (FASCO) distinction.

He has convened multiple successful survivorship conferences. He has contributed to more than 250 publications (as of June 2024) and presented at numerous international meetings covering clinical oncology, survivorship, psycho-oncology and cancer control broadly.