Professor Sandy Jack

Sandy Jack is a Professor of Prehabilitation Medicine in the Faculty of Medicine at University of Southampton, and Honorary Consultant Clinician Scientist in Perioperative Medicine at University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust. She has >20 years of experience leading and delivering healthcare services in public sectors, including community settings in the UK. She has> 15 years’ experience in prehabilitation medicine and is considered a national/international leader in her field. She was the first to show that cancer treatments decreased physical fitness, leading to poor outcomes and high–intensity exercise-training reversed/ameliorated the decline and improved tumour regression outcomes. She has a global perspective of the challenges and works with international partners to address these.

Sandy is Co-Director of Fit-4-Consortium and Director of Centre for Human Integrative Physiology in the NIHR Research Facility. She is a Board member on numerous Societies. She is CI on several trials, including the NHSE&I Sustainability and Transformation Partnership Cancer Transformation funded multi-centre Wessex Fit-Cancer Surgery Trial-WesFit, which is evaluating multimodal prehabilitation in patients undergoing major intra-cavity cancer surgery in the community settings. In response to the pandemic, she transformed WesFit into SafeFit utilising virtual clinics to deliver multimodal interventions.

She has co-authored over 28 publications and chief or co-investigator on >£5 million in research grants. Her team have been awarded 15 prizes including the Health Service Journal Cancer Care Initiative of the Year award for WesFit. She has recently been appointed as the theme lead for Prehabilitation for our £25 million NIHR Southampton Biomedical Research Centre.