St Vincents Private Hospitals

Biography

Dr Ivon Burns is a Melbourne-based oncologist who has given tirelessly many decades of care to the oncology patients of St Vincent’s.

Dr Burn’s first clinical appointment at St Vincent’s was in 1971 as a clinical assistant in the Haematology Clinic. He established the Oncology Department in 1977 and was the inaugural director of the department until 2007. He retired in 2012, but still holds an honorary appointment as an oncologist at St Vincent’s.