Speakers
Plenary Speakers - Monday 19 January 2026
Judy Garber
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute & Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts, USA
Richard Meddings CBE
Breast Cancer Now, UK
Anna Weiss
University of Rochester Medical Center, New York, USA
Plenary Speakers - Tuesday 20 January 2026
Angela DeMichele
University of Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia, USA
Fredrik Strand
Karolinska Institute,
Solna, Sweden
Parallel Session Speakers
Carmel Anandadas - The Christie NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, UK
Stephen Beers - University of Southampton, UK
Mark Beresford - Royal United Hospital Bath, UK
Alison Berner - Queen Mary University of London, UK
Richard Berry - University of Oxford, UK
Rebecca Bowen - Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust, Bath, UK
Henry Cain - Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, UK
David Cameron - University of Edinburgh, UK
Juanita Caseley - Maidstone & Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust, UK
Declan Cawley - East Kent Hospitals, UK
Charlotte Coles - University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Sarah Downey - James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Norfolk, UK
Mitch Dowsett - Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust/Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK
Lesley Fallowfield - University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
Nina Fuller-Shavel - National Centre for Integrative Oncology, Reading, UK
Awen Gallimore - Cardiff University, UK
Toral Gathani - Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, UK
Fiona Gilbert - University of Cambridge, UK
Lucy Gossage - Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, UK
Anita Grigoriadis - King’s College London, UK
Helen Hanson - Royal Devon University NHS Foundation Trust/University of Exeter Medical School, Exeter, UK
Catherine Harper-Wynne - Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust, Maidstone, UK
Robert Hills - University of Oxford, UK
Jenny Hiscock - University of Kent, UK
Penny Kechagioglou - University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, UK
Carol Keen - Active Together Cancer Rehabilitation, Sheffield, UKLucy Kilburn - The Institute of Cancer Research, UK
Anna Kirby - Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
Gerald Lip - NHS Grampian, Aberdeen, UK
Iain MacPherson - University of Glasgow, UK
Neil Masters - Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, UK
Stuart Mcintosh - Queen's University Belfast, UK
Terri McVeigh - Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
Sara Meade - University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, UK
Icro Meattini - University of Florence, Italy
Miriam Mutebi - Aga Khan University Hospital, Nairobi, Kenya
Olga Oikonomidou - University of Edinburgh, UK
Alicia Okines - Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
Luigi Ombrato - Queen Mary University of London, UK
Sam Orange - Newcastle University, UK
Penny Ottewell - University of Sheffield, UK
Carlo Palmieri - University of Liverpool, UKShelley Potter - University of Bristol, UK
Dan Pepworth-Smyth - Breast Cancer Now, UK
Sarah Pinder - Kings College London, UK
Andrew Proctor - York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, UK
Keshthra Satchithanda - King’s College Hospital, London, UK
John Saxton - University of Hull, UK
Marjanka Schmidt - Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Val Shilling - University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
Richard Simcock - Macmillan Cancer Support, Brighton, UK
Lesley Stephen - Make 2nds Count, UK
Fredrik Strand - Karolinska Institute, Solna, Sweden
Nick Turner - Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
Andrew Tutt - Guy’s Hospital & Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK
Ines Vaz - Gustave Roussy, Paris, France
Lauren Watts - NHS England, London, UK
Ephia Yasmin - University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, UK
Leonie Young - Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland
Session Chairs
Judith Bliss - Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK
Jeremy Braybrooke - University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust, UK
Henry Cain - Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, UK
Leena Chagla - Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, UK
Charlotte Coles - University of Cambridge, UK
Ellen Copson - University of Southampton, UK
Ramsey Cutress - University of Southampton, UK
Angela DeMichele - University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
David Dodwell - Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, UK
Sarah Downey - James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Norfolk, UK
Mitch Dowsett - Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust/Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK
Diane Eccles - University of Southampton, UK
Lesley Fallowfield - University of Sussex, UK
Julia Gee - Cardiff University, UK
Catherine Harper-Wynne - Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust, Kent, UK
Ingunn Holen - University of Sheffield, UK
Stephen Johnston - Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
Judy King - Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, UK
Anna Kirby - Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
Sally Kum - Breast Cancer Now, UK
Gerald Lip - NHS Grampian, Aberdeen, UK
Stuart McIntosh - Queen's University Belfast, UK
David Miles - East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, UK
Carlo Palmieri - University of Liverpool, UK
Sarah Pinder - King's College London, UK
Claire Ryan - Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust, Kent, UK
John Saxton - University of Hull, UK
Michal Sladkowski - York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, UK
Susannah Stanway - Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
Lesley Stephen - Independent Cancer Patients' Voice, UK
Lesley Turner - Independent Cancer Patients' Voice, UK
Sarah Vinnicombe - Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, UK
Caroline Wilson - The Christie NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, UK
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