Thirlestaine Breast Centre

Dr Sarah Vinnicombe is Lead Breast Radiologist and Deputy Director of Screening in the Thirlestaine Breast Centre, Gloucestershire NHS Foundation Trust, Cheltenham. Until 2011, she was lead Breast Radiologist and Director of Breast Screening at Barts Health, then moved to the University of Dundee to take up a Senior Lectureship in Cancer Imaging, a post she held till 2018. She was President of the British Society of Breast Radiology from November 2019 -2022, a Trustee of Symposium Mammographicum and current Chair of the Conference Organising Committee. In Cheltenham she leads on breast imaging research and is PI, co-investigator and CI on many national and local studies. Her main research interests are in breast density, risk adapted screening, imaging of response to neoadjuvant therapy with MRI and novel breast imaging techniques. She is a fellow of the International Cancer Imaging Society, a member of the NHS BSP RIDAC and the NHS BSP Clinical Advisory Group, and serves on the RSNA regional committee for Europe and Breast Radiology scientific abstract panels.Throughout her career she has been passionate about teaching and is a regular faculty member for ECR, ESOR and RSNA. She sits on the advisory board of the National Breast Imaging Academy and is editor of the e-learning breast MRI modules.