Our Team

Professor Kieran Horgan
Clinical Lead (Surgery) and NABCOP CSG Chair Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Professor David Dodwell
Clinical Lead (Oncology) Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford
Miss Katie Miller
NABCOP Clinical Research Fellow. Clinical Effectiveness Unit, RCS Specialist Registrar in General Surgery
Ms Jibby Medina
NABCOP Project Manager Research Fellow, Clinical Effectiveness Unit (CEU), RCS
Mrs Melissa Gannon
NABCOP Research Fellow / Methodologist, CEU, RCS Research Fellow in Clinical Epidemiology, LSHTM
Professor David Cromwell
Director, Clinical Effectiveness Unit, RCS Professor of Health Services Research, LSHTM
Ms Karen Clements
NABCOP / NCRAS Project Manager Public Health England
Ms Catherine Foster
CEU Research CoordinatorNABCOP Clinical Steering Group
The purpose of the Clinical Steering Group (CSG) is to provide guidance and support on the direction and deliverables of the NABCOP and to encourage support from professional members.
The CSG has members from patient associations, medical associations, multi-disciplinary experts in the area of breast cancer and medical care of the older person, and policy makers.
The CSG’s objectives are to:
- Advise on proposed audit analyses and presentation of results
- Review and prioritise identified audit questions
- Inform the Project Team about relevant national initiatives and evolving clinical evidence
- Advise on study design, and appropriate process and outcome measures
- Comment on the Audit dataset and methods of data collection
- Advise on proposed audit analyses and presentation of results
- Comment on the findings of the Audit and their interpretation
- Support Audit communication with professional colleagues on Audit aims and data collection
- Help publicise the results of the NABCOP among patients, the professions involved and other stakeholders
- Represent the views of the associated professional patient groups
The NABCOP CSG Terms of Reference and CSG meeting minutes, are available to download.
Clinical Steering Group Members as of March 2020
Name | Base | Role |
Prof. Kieran Horgan (Chair) | Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust | Consultant Breast Surgeon
NABCOP Liaison for the Association of Breast Surgery reporting to the Clinical Standards and Audit Committee Chair Breast Cancer Expert Advisory Group of NCRAS |
Dr. Nicolò Matteo Luca Battisti | The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust | Clinical Research Fellow in Medical Oncology
Specialty Doctor |
Ms Karen Clements | National Cancer Registration and Analysis Service, Public Health England | NABCOP / NCRAS Project Manager |
Miss Marianne Dillon | Swansea Bay University Health Board
Wales Cancer Network |
Consultant Breast Surgeon
Breast Cancer Site Group Lead |
Prof. David Dodwell | University of Oxford | Consultant Clinical Oncologist
Chair, Systemic Anti-Cancer Therapy Executive Committee UK Breast Cancer Group |
Prof. Deborah Fenlon | Swansea University | Professor of Nursing |
Mr Ashu Gandhi | Association of Breast Surgery
Manchester University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust NHS Breast Screening Programme & ABS Screening Audit Group |
Chair of the Clinical Practice & Standards Committee
Oncoplastic Breast and Endocrine Surgeon
Chair |
Prof. Margot Gosney | Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust | Professor of Elderly Care Medicine |
Ms Lis Grimsey | East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust | Macmillan Nurse Consultant |
Prof. Chris Holcombe | Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Association of Breast Surgery |
Oncoplastic Breast Surgeon
Vice President |
Ms Jacquie Jenkin | Public Health England, Screen Quality Assurance Service | Deputy Director of Quality Assurance |
Prof. Ian Kunkler | University of Edinburgh
NHS Lothian |
Professor of Clinical Oncology
Clinical Oncologist |
Miss Fiona MacNeill | Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT)
The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust |
Clinical Lead for Breast Surgery
Consultant Breast Surgeon |
Mr Andrew Murphy | National Cancer Registration and Analysis Service, Public Health England | Head of Cancer Datasets |
Dr Emma Pennery | Breast Cancer Now | Clinical Director |
Dr Stanley Ralph | Age Anaesthesia Association
University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust |
Honorary Secretary
Anaesthetist |
Dr Alistair Ring | The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust | Medical Oncologist |
Prof. Tom Robinson | University of Leicester
University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust NIHR Senior Investigator |
Deputy Head of the College of Life Sciences and Professor of Stroke Medicine
Honorary Consultant Stroke Physician
|
Ms Janice Rose | Independent Cancer Patients’ Voice | Patient Representative |
Dr Nisha Sharma | Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust
British Society of Breast Radiology |
Director of Breast Screening (Leeds-Wakefield) and Clinical Lead for Breast Imaging
Audit Lead |
Dr Richard Simcock | Macmillan Cancer Support | Chair of the Expert Reference Group (ERG) for Cancer Care in Older People convened by Macmillan |
Ms Sophia Turner | Independent Cancer Patients’ Voice | Patient Representative |
Ms Carla Whitbread | Independent Cancer Patients’ Voice | Patient Representative |
Prof. Lynda Wyld | University of Sheffield
Jasmine Breast Cancer, Doncaster Bridging the Age Gap Study |
Professor of Surgical Oncology
Honorary Consultant Breast Surgeon Principal Investigator |
NABCOP Project Board
The Project Board (PB) responsible for ensuring that NABCOP works within the contracts covering the delivery of the audit, and directing the strategic work of the audit. The PB has representation from patient associations, medical associations, and the commissioners; members are listed in the NABCOP Annual Reports .
If you have any questions about this information, please contact nabcop@rcseng.ac.uk
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