Stuart McIntosh

Stuart McIntosh is Professor of Surgical Oncology at Queen’s University in Belfast, and a consultant oncoplastic breast surgeon at Belfast City Hospital.

Stuart is an experienced clinical trialist, with a particular interest in neoadjuvant, peri-surgical and treatment de-escalation studies, and is Chief Investigator for the UK SMALL trial, as well as holding surgical leadership roles in several other trials. He led the UK neoadjuvant systemic therapy audit (NeST), as well as the recent Association of Breast Surgery breast cancer surgery research priority setting exercise. His translational research interests centre around the DNA damage driven immune response in breast cancer.

He is a former chair of the UK National Cancer Research Institute Breast Research Group, the Chair of the British Breast Group, and is one of the two Royal College of Surgeons Breast Surgical Specialty Leads, responsible for supporting the development and delivery of breast cancer surgical trials nationally.