Talk:Ian Jacobs (oncologist)

Seeking advice - content update - COI
Hello Editors. I am new to Wikipedia. May I seek your advice and assistance, please? I’m requesting advice on this Talk page because I am a UNSW Sydney (UNSW) staff member and it would be contrary to Wikipedia’s conflict of interest guidance for me to update the article 'Ian Jacobs (Oncologist)'. The article has little information about Professor Jacobs’ time as President and Vice-Chancellor at UNSW, which began in February 2015. I have drafted some information about Professor Jacobs’ time at UNSW that includes key milestones, such as the university’s 10-year strategy. I’ve written the information in a neutral way, and I’ve comprehensively sourced it according to Wikipedia’s guidelines about Verifiability and No Original Research. I’ve consulted Wikipedia’s guidelines about Biography of Living Persons (BLP) articles too. I’ve also noticed that there is some overlap in the existing ‘Early life and education’ and ‘Career’ sections of the article. I have attempted to clarify this in the content I have drafted. May I seek your advice on whether independent Wikipedia Editors might review and incorporate this new content in the article? How might I submit the content for review? Many thanks -- Corde2020  talk  04:55, 16 March 2021 (UTC)

Edit request please
May I ask that an editor make the changes outlined below to this article? The edits I propose are for the purposes of: Many thanks Corde2020   talk  08:07, 11 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Removing duplication between the existing ‘Early life and education’ and ‘Career’ sections
 * Clarifying the chronology of milestones in Jacobs’ education and career
 * Adding content about Jacobs’ milestones while President and Vice-Chancellor of UNSW Sydney
 * Adding and updating content about Jacobs’ research
 * Adding citations for existing content that is not referenced
 * Updating an existing citation for which the hyperlink is no longer active (existing Reference #3)
 * Adding relevant external links

Introductory text
 * Specific text to be added: In the first sentence, change “... a British academic, medical doctor, gynaecological oncologist and researcher. ” to “... an academic, medical doctor, gynaecological oncologist, charity founder and university leader from the UK, with dual British and Australian citizenship. ”
 * Reason for the change: The change includes Jacobs’ additional roles and notes his updated citizenship status.
 * References supporting change: As cited in the text above.

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Early life and education " Jacobs was born in Stoke Newington and raised in Cockfosters in North London. He attended De Bohun Primary School in Southgate, then The Haberdashers’ Aske’s School in Elstree.
 * Specific text to be added: Please replace the existing 'Early life and education' section with the following text.

Jacobs is an alumnus of Trinity College, Cambridge, and the Middlesex Hospital Medical School, which is now part of University College London. He received a Bachelor of Arts in Medicine and Law from Cambridge in 1980. He qualified as a Doctor of Medicine (MBBS) from Middlesex Hospital Medical School in 1983. He was awarded a Medical Doctorate (MD) from the University of London in 1991.

Jacobs was the first in his family to gain a tertiary education, benefitting from the era of publicly funded education in the UK. "
 * Reason for the change: This clarifies the chronology of Jacobs' education, removes duplication of content that appears in the 'Career' section and adds/amends citations.
 * References supporting change: As cited in the text above. The existing Reference #3, 'Jacobs's Journey', no longer links to the specific publication. I have resolved the inactive link within the new citation.

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Career " After qualifying as a doctor, Jacobs worked as a junior doctor at the Middlesex Hospital and at Mount Vernon Hospital. In 1984 he commenced specialist training in obstetrics and gynaecology at the Royal London Hospital and then Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, which he completed in 1990. Jacobs became a member of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in 1991. "
 * Specific text to be added: Please replace the first sentence of paragraph 1 ("After qualifying as a doctor ... Royal London Hospital") with the following text.
 * Reason for the change: This adds information about Jacobs' specialist training and add/amends citations.
 * References supporting the change: As cited in the text above.

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" In 1984 he founded the Eve Appeal (first called the Gynaecology Cancer Research Fund), a charity with the aim of raising funds for research in gynaecologic cancer. He was subsequently Medical Director of the charity, a Trustee and Emeritus Trustee. "
 * Specific text to be added: Please edit the sentence "To fund his research ... gynaecologic oncology" so that it is in a new paragraph and reads as follows.
 * Reason for the change: This clarifies the purpose of the fund and adds a citation.
 * References supporting the change: As cited in the text above.

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" In 1985 he began a program of research into ovarian cancer screening. "
 * Specific text to be added: Please add the following sentence in a new paragraph.
 * Reason for the change: This is an edit to an existing sentence in paragraph 1 of the 'Career' section. The change updates the citation and makes the sentence stand alone chronologically.
 * References supporting the change: As cited in the text above.

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" In 1990-91 he received a fellowship from the Medical Research Council to research cancer genetics at Duke University, followed by a Cancer Research Campaign (now Cancer Research UK) McElwain fellowship at Cambridge University in 1992-94. "
 * Specific text to be added: Please edit the existing sentence "In 1990-91 he received ... 1992-94" so that it reads as follows.
 * Reason for the change: This corrects the inaccurate existing link to 'Cambridge Regional College', and adds a citation.
 * References supporting the change: As cited in the text above.

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" He was promoted to Professor of Gynaecological Cancer at the Queen Mary University of London in 1999 and was Director of the Cancer Institute and Associate Research Dean before joining University College London (UCL) in 2004 as the head of the gynaecologic oncology research department. "
 * Specific text to be added: Please edit the sentence "He was promoted to professor of ... research department." so that it reads as follows.
 * Reason for the change: Insert additional role, amend/insert citations.
 * References supporting the change: As cited in the text above.

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" At UCL, Jacobs established the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Institute for Women's Health (iFWH), the Ugandan Women's Health Initiative,  and the UCLH/UCL Biomedical Research Centre.  "
 * Specific text to be added: Please edit the sentence "At UCL, Jacobs established ... Biomedical Research Centre." so that it reads as follows.
 * Reason for the change: This adds the full name of the Institute for Women's Health, a hyperlink to the Institute, and citations.
 * References supporting the change: As cited in the text above.

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" From 2019-11 he was dean of the Faculty of Biomedical Sciences. "
 * Specific text to be added: Please replace the sentence "He held various positions ... dean of medicine." with the following text.
 * Reason for the change: This provides specific information with an updated citation.
 * References supporting the change: As cited in the text above.

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 * Specific text to be added: Please add the following citation after "... the dean of its Faculty of Medical and Human Sciences."
 * Reason for the change: This adds a citation where there was not one.
 * References supporting the change: As cited in the text above.

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 * Specific text to be added: Please add the following citation after "... six NHS hospitals."
 * Reason for the change: This adds a citation where there was not one.
 * References supporting the change: As cited in the text above.

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" While in Manchester, Jacobs founded the Northern Health Science Alliances (NHSA), involving 10 universities and 10 NHS Hospital Trusts across the north of England. "
 * Specific text to be added: Please add this sentence to the paragraph that ends "... six NHS hospitals."
 * Reason for change: This adds a career milestone that is not in the existing article, and a citation.
 * References supporting the change: As cited in the text above.

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NEW SECTION - UNSW Sydney President and Vice-Chancellor
 * Specific text to be added: Please insert the new section heading (and table-of-contents item) " UNSW Sydney President and Vice-Chancellor " above the existing sentence "In 2015 he relocated from the UK to Sydney ... University of News South Wales."
 * Reason for the change: This provides clarity in the chronology of Jacobs' career and a heading for a new section of content about his time at UNSW Sydney. (See below.)
 * References supporting the change: This change is to enhance content flow and readability. See references in the new content below.

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* Specific text to be added: Please replace the sentence "In 2015 he relocated from the UK to Sydney ... University of News South Wales." with the following content for the new "UNSW Sydney President and Vice-Chancellor" section of the article. " In 2015 Jacobs relocated from the UK to Sydney, Australia, after he was appointed President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney), one of Australia’s leading research- and teaching-intensive universities.

In his first year at UNSW Sydney, Jacobs launched the UNSW 2025 Strategy, a 10-year strategic plan to enhance UNSW’s global impact and reputation. The Strategy, published in October 2015 after wide-ranging consultation with the UNSW community, incorporated Jacobs’ belief in universities as servants of society, and in the transformative power of education. While President and vice-Chancellor at UNSW, Jacobs has:
 * Advocated for equity, diversity, inclusion and accessibility in education. He appointed UNSW’s first Pro Vice-Chancellor, Indigenous in June 2017 and first Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Equity Diversity & Inclusion (also UNSW’s first female DVC) in July 2017.
 * Improved the quality of research at UNSW as reflected by publications, highly cited researchers, grant awards and prestigious academic awards, and put in place new schemes for mentoring, recruiting and retaining outstanding academics.
 * Emphasised the importance of governments and universities working together to ensure that “all Australians who can benefit from a university education have the opportunity to do so".
 * Actively supported freedom of speech on the university campus, stating that freedom of expression at UNSW should be no different to freedom of speech outside the university campus, under law, across Australia.
 * Proposed the Translational Research Network model to bring universities, industry and government together to propel the cycle of research discovery – translation – application – and commercialisation in national priority areas.
 * Co-founded UNSW partnerships including the International Universities Climate Alliance, NUW Alliance, PLuS Alliance, Sydney Partnership for Health Education Research and Enterprise (SPHERE), Randwick Health & Innovation Precinct, and the Defence and Security Innovation Precinct in Canberra.
 * Championed the creation of the Education Focussed academic career pathway, highlighting the value of professional pedagogy and teaching innovation.
 * Advanced UNSW’s credentials in climate science, renewable energy and sustainability, including announcing UNSW’s plan to divest of fossil fuel assets by 2025 as part of its net zero emissions goal, and the university’s achievement of net zero emissions from energy use from 2020.
 * Achieved a rise in UNSW’s global ranking from 87th to 52nd on the aggregate of the QS (Quacquarelli Symonds), Times Higher Education and ARWU Rankings. "

* Reason for the change: The existing article does not contain any information about Jacobs' career at UNSW Sydney.
 * References supporting the change: As cited in the text above.

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NEW SECTION - Research
 * Specific text to be added: Please insert the new section heading (and table-of-contents item) " Research " above the existing section "Personal life".
 * Reason for the change: This provides clarity in the chronology of Jacobs' career and a heading for a new section of content about his research. (See below.)
 * References supporting the change: This change is to enhance content flow and readability. See references in the new content below.

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 * Specific text to be removed: Please delete the two paragraphs from "In addition to his role as president and vice-chancellor ... randomised trials ever performed in the history of medicine."
 * Reason for change: This content has been updated (see below) to include recent reporting of the UKCTOCS research and to update Jacobs' publications data.
 * References supporting the change: See citations in the new (replacement) content below.

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" Jacobs initiated and was chief investigator for the following ovarian cancer research programs, which were funded by a combination of MRC, NIHR, CRUK and Eve Appeal:
 * Specific text to be added: Please insert the following text under the new "Research" section of the article.
 * UKFOCSS (UK Familial Ovarian Cancer Screening Study), involving more than 5,000 women at high risk of ovarian cancer.
 * UKCTOCS (UK Collaborative Trial of Ovarian Cancer Screening), involving more than 200,000 women at general population risk.
 * PROMISE (Prediction of Risk of Ovarian Malignancy Screening and Early Detection) program.
 * GCAPPS (Genetic Cancer Prediction through Population Screening).

Jacobs’ research programs have received approximately AUD $100 million of funding awards over the last 20 years and have led to over 400 publications with an h-index >85.

In May 2021 the results of UKCTOCS were published in The Lancet. The research found that although ovarian cancer can be detected early and before women develop symptoms, this does not translate into saving lives. Jacobs wrote an account of his 35-year involvement in the research in The Conversation, expressing his sadness and disappointment that the robust study did not find the outcome for which the research team had hoped.

Jacobs is founder, non-executive director and Consultant to Abcodia, a University College London spin out company involved in biomarker discovery and development. "
 * Reason for change: This content contains citations for each of the research projects, recent reporting of the UKCTOCS research, and an update to Jacobs' publications data.
 * References supporting the change: As cited in the text above.

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Many thanks, Editors Corde2020   talk  08:07, 11 June 2021 (UTC)


 *  Hello, the page has been updated. Anything that is not crossed out has not been added. See the reasons below:
 * *In the "Early life and education" section, the source provided says Jacobs was born in the East End of London. There was no mention of Stoke Newington, nor were his primary and secondary schooling mentioned, so I did not include them in the updates.
 * * In the "Career" section, no source provided mentioned Jacobs as Emeritus Trustee of The Eve Appeal, so I did add his UNSW page as a supporting citation. I also reordered the chronology of the first paragraph and moved the 1991 fact to the fellowships paragraph. I added the detail that he was also a consultant at Barts. I may have missed it in the sources, but I didn't see mention of his founding the UCL Biomedical Research Centre, so I added an additional source . The source provided did not specify the number of universities and NHS trusts involved in NHSA, so I left that part out and mentioned that AHSNs are involved.
 * '''*In the "UNSW Sydney President and Vice-Chancellor" section, I kept the original third paragraph and did not add the bulleted list of Jacobs' UNSW Sydney achievements because it seems undue and promotional when positioned with the rest of the page content. The part about UNSW being a leading university also seems undue.
 * *Any other minor edits were for language/clarity/punctuation.
 * *I have not yet looked through the "Research" section of the edit request, but I plan to do so. Heartmusic678 (talk) 18:29, 19 July 2021 (UTC)


 *  Hello, in the "Research" section of your request, I spelled out the abbreviations that were not defined before this section. I added citations for the UKCTOCS and PROMISE program mentions because the org.uk sites are not accessible for me to reference check. The additional information regarding UKFOCSS and UKCTOCS was taken verbatim from the provided source (which is against Wikipedia's policy) and was not necessary to add to the page, so I did not include them in the update. I added an additional source to the GCaPPS mention to support that Jacobs is its chief investigator . To support the fact about Jacobs’ research funding, I added the citation. I noticed this fact was also taken verbatim from the additional source and revised the sentence. I added the journal article  to support that Jacobs is also consultant to Abcodia because I did not see this mentioned in the sources already provided and could not access to check.
 * ✅ All approved updates are now complete. Please submit a new request if you require additional updates. Thanks, Heartmusic678 (talk) 15:11, 20 July 2021 (UTC)