Meet our panel of medical specialists

Research Review New Zealand works with over 70 local medical specialists to select and advise on the most important research from around the world. They advise on what really matters, what impact it has on local healthcare and what we need to do in our daily practice to accomodate new skills and knowledge. Select a category below to see more about each of our expert advisors.

Dr Carmel Jacobs

Dr Carmel Jacobs

Dr Carmel Jacobs is a Medical Oncologist at Auckland City Hospital and Canopy Cancer Care. Carmel specialises in the treatment of genitourinary and prostate cancers. Carmel graduated from the Otago University School of Medicine in 2001 with Distinction. She completed training in oncology in 2011 with dual specialist training in Internal Medicine in 2012. Between 2013 and 2015 Carmel completed a clinical research fellowship at The Ottawa Hospital, Canada, focussing on breast cancer, genitourinary malignancies and melanoma. Carmel is a principal and co-investigator on a number of clinical research trials in the area of genitourinary oncology. She is an honorary clinical lecturer at Auckland University... read more »