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Professor Nancy Baxter

Professor Baxter is the Deputy Executive Dean (Research Centres), Faculty of Medicine and Health at the University of Sydney.She continues to maintain her appointment as Professor of Surgery in the Department of Surgery and the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto. She is a scientist with the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute at St. Michael’s Hospital and a Senior Scientist in the Cancer Theme Group with the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences.Professor Baxter obtained her MD and PhD in Clinical Epidemiology from the University of Toronto. She completed her general surgery residency training at the University of Toronto followed by a fellowship in colorectal surgery at the Mayo Clinic . Most recently, she completed a MBA from the University of Melbourne in 2022.Her primary research focus as a clinical epidemiologist and health services researcher is the effectiveness of colorectal cancer screening, long-term outcomes of cancer survivors and quality of surgical care. She also applies the use of linked health administrative data and cancer registry data to evaluate long-term consequences of cancer care for adults.

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