My current role
I am the Professor of Surgical Oncology at the University of Cambridge, where I have a focus on developing and promoting surgery related clinical trials and translational research.
I am particularly interested in the concepts of early detection and screening for kidney cancer as well as giving drug treatments around the time of surgery with the aim of optimising survival of this cancer. In order to make practice changing developments I have developed a range of interlinked clinical trials and translational research offered to the majority of our kidney cancer patients.
Previous history
I moved to Cambridge in 2015 from a post as Senior Lecturer in Urological Surgery at the University of Edinburgh and Honorary Consultant Urological Surgeon at the Western General Hospital, Edinburgh.
Membership/accreditations
I am:
- Fellow, Director of Studies and Dean at Selwyn College, Cambridge
- Co-lead the Urological Malignancies Virtual Institute and Integrated Cancer Medicine Programme CRUK Cambridge Centre
- Director of Academic Clinical Fellow training, Clinical Academic Training Office, Cambridge
- Co-lead for the Capacity Building Programme of the NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre
- Clinical lead for the Kidney Cancer NICE Guideline
- Clinical director of the National Kidney Cancer Audit
- Chair of the Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) Kidney Cancer Best Practice pathway
- Trustee of Kidney Cancer UK
- Associate Editor of the British Journal of Urology International
- Member of Association of Academic European Urologists
- Honorary Professor University of Leeds
Personal interests
In my free time I enjoy watching my children grow up, running (retired hill runner), and play golf (badly!).