Queen's University Belfast

Stuart McIntosh is a Clinical Reader in Surgical Oncology at Queen’s University in Belfast, and an honorary consultant breast surgeon at Belfast City Hospital. He graduated from Edinburgh University in 1993, completing general surgical training in the North-East of Scotland, moving to Belfast in 2009, and to an academic position in 2015. He is an experienced breast cancer clinical trialist, with a particular interest in neoadjuvant, peri-surgical and treatment de-escalation studies. He is the Chief Investigator for the UK HTA-funded SMALL trial, a national phase III multicentre study comparing standard surgery with vacuum-assisted excision for the treatment of small screen-detected breast cancers. His translational research interests lie in the area of the DNA damage immune response in breast cancer.He is Chair of the UK National Cancer Research Institute Breast Research Group and a member of the NCRI Strategic Advisory Group. In his role as the Royal College of Surgeons Breast Surgical Specialty Lead, he is responsible for supporting the development and delivery of breast cancer trials nationally, with a specific emphasis on surgical studies.