Clinical Advisory Board - Modi 110 May 2019 08:46
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Chairman, Professor Robert Coleman MBBS, MD, FRCP, FRCPE
Robert Coleman is Emeritus Professor of Medical Oncology at Weston Park Hospital and the University of Sheffield. He graduated in medicine from Kings College Hospital Medical School and trained in London and Edinburgh before moving to Sheffield where he was instrumental in developing clinical cancer research in the city and establishing an internationally respected bone oncology research team. Professor Coleman held many leadership roles before his recent retirement from the University. He has written more than 450 scientific articles and 60 book chapters, is a past-president of the Cancer and Bone Society and was a trustee for Breast Cancer Now, the largest breast cancer research charity in the UK from 2010-2018. Currently he is a trustee at St Luke's Hospice in Sheffield and the Weston Park Cancer Charity. Since 2014 he has been a part-time Medical Director for the global independent medical education provider, prIME Oncologyâ„¢ developing and delivering both live and on-line educational programmes for oncologists and other providers of cancer care.
Professor Christian Ottensmeier MD, PhD, FRCP
Christian Ottensmeier is Professor of Experimental Cancer Medicine at the University of Southampton. He graduated in Münster, Germany and began his specialist training there. After a 3-year training fellowship in the Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, Massachusetts, he moved to Southampton where he leads the Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre. He has been a consultant in medical oncology since 2000. Clinically his interests are thoracic malignancies, head & neck cancer and melanoma, and he has co-developed a number of national NCRI studies in lung cancer. He is at the forefront of research into cancer vaccines and manages a broad and active clinical trials portfolio, including lung cancer and melanoma.
Professor Poulam Patel MD, PhD, MBBS, FRCP
Poulam Patel is Professor of Clinical Oncology at the University of Nottingham and Honorary Consultant Medical Oncologist at the Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust. He combines laboratory research with clinical practice focussing on the development of new treatments for several cancer types including malignant melanoma and renal cancer. He has been principal investigator for many trials of novel therapies, including Scancell's Phase 1/2 clinical trial of SCIB1-001 in melanoma patients. Professor Patel is currently the Chairman of the UK National Cancer Research Institute's Skin Cancer Clinical Studies Group, the multidisciplinary committee charged with developing the national trials portfolio for skin cancer. He has previously been a National Cancer Specialty lead of the NIHR Clinical Research Network, the clinical trials arm of the NHS, and Chairman of the EORTC Melanoma Group, one of the world's largest international melanoma clinical trials networks.
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