Personal Profile
- Trained in general medicine for 2.5 years in London and Swindon.
- Haematology training for 7 years in Bristol, Leeds and Seattle USA.
- PhD for research into Acute Lymphoblastic leukaemia (Bristol).
- Haematology Consultant posts: Bristol (1994-96), Royal Free Hospital, London (1996-2004) and Royal Marsden Hospital - Surrey and London (2004 - current).
- Head of Stem Cell Transplantation (2003 – current).
- Other leadership roles: Head of Haematology Department (3 years) and Associate Medical Director of Royal Marsden (3 years) - to 2018.
- Educational Supervisor for trainee haematologists.
- National Examiner for FRCPath Haematology (2000-2017).
- Active in clinical research into haematology – oncology with over 160 publications to date.
- Main interest now is clinical care of patients with a wide range of haematology conditions including treatment with chemotherapy, biological agents and stem cell transplantation.
- Very experienced in investigation of new patients with clinical or laboratory haematological abnormalities.
- Over 20 years experience in clinical haematology at consultant level within NHS and private sectors.
- Extensive expertise in general haematology and haematology – oncology.
- Offers treatment in patients with lymphomas, leukaemias, myeloma, myelodysplasia and myeloproliferative conditions. Increasingly this includes this use of non chemotherapy approaches e.g. antibodies and othertargeted biological agents.
- Friendly and positive attitude based on personal experience of seeing huge advances in treatments and outcomes for most blood disorders over the last 20 years.
