Alison Berner

Alison is a Clinical Senior Lecturer and an NIHR Advanced Fellow at Queen Mary University of London, and an Honorary Consultant in Medical Oncology at St Bartholomew’s Hospital and Chelsea & Westminster Hospitals. She is the UK’s only oncologist to be dual trained gender identity medicine and leads the UK Cancer and Transition Service (UCATS), a world first national clinic to integrate local oncology and gender affirming care or transgender and gender diverse people in the UK. In recognition of this work, she was recently made a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians. Her mixed-methods programme of research centres on reducing cancer care inequalities according to sex, gender and sexual orientation. She is President of British Association Gender Identity Specialists and a Trustee of the OUTpatients LGBTIAQ+ cancer charity.