Dr Nicolas Hart

Overview
Dr Nicolas Hart, PhD AES CSCS ESSAF is Deputy Lead of the Cancer Survivorship Program at the Caring Futures Institute of Flinders University. As a Matthew Flinders Senior Research Fellow, his research focuses on improving outcomes for people living with advanced cancer, canvassing (1) survivorship and supportive care issues (including exercise, nutrition, psychosocial, and toxicity management), and (2) cancer outcomes (including disease biology, disease progression, and overall survival).

Research Summary
As an EMCR, Dr Hart has received >$11 million AUD of research income to improve outcomes for people with advanced cancer. This includes a fellowship from Cancer Council Western Australia (2018-2020); and chief investigator roles for NHMRC Project Grant (CIH); MRFF Primary Health Grant (CIJ); MRFF Rare Cancer Grant (CID) and several national and international multicentre randomised controlled trials (CIB-CIC). He has published >115 peer-reviewed research articles and 2 book chapters (including European Society of Medical Oncology Handbook of Supportive and Palliative Care) with a FWCI = 3.06 (Exercise and Cancer).

National and International Standing
Dr Hart is the inaugural Multinational Association for Supportive Care in Cancer (MASCC) Terry Langbaum Survivorship Fellow (2021-2022) to develop principles of survivorship care and research priorities for people living with advanced cancer; and the inaugural MASCC Chair in Exercise Oncology. He is one of two Australian members of the World Health Organisation (WHO) Cancer Rehabilitation Development Group; the only Australian member of the international Survivorship Research in Prostate Cancer (SuRECaP) Working Group; and one of three Australians in the international Bone Metastases Exercise Working Group who developed the worlds' first clinical exercise guidelines for people with bone metastases. He sits on national and international committees, and Senior Editor for BMC Cancer.