Committees
Click below for information on ABS Committee members. If you would like to contact a Committee member please do so by getting in touch with the ABS office.

Mr Giles Cunnick
ABS & NHS BSP Screening Committee Chair

Mr Pud Bhaskar
Clinical Advisor in Breast Surgery/ Northern Regional Representative

Miss Leena Chagla
ABS Vice President/ Clinical Advisor in Breast Surgery

Miss Marianne Dillon
Clinical Advisor in Breast Surgery

Ms Rosamond Jacklin
Clinical Advisor in Breast Surgery

Mr Hazem Khout
Clinical Advisor in Breast Surgery
Mr Khout was appointed as a Consultant Oncoplastic Breast surgeon in 2013. He joined Nottingham Brea
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Mr Brendan McFall
Clinical Advisor in Breast Surgery

Miss Caroline Mortimer
Clinical Advisor in Breast Surgery

Mr Seni Mylvaganam
Clinical Advisor in Breast Surgery/ Sloane Project Represenative

Mrs Jenny Piper
Clinical Advisor in Breast Surgery

Mr Zenon Rayter
Clinical Advisor in Breast Surgery

Miss Sheila Stallard
Clinical Advisor in Breast Surgery/ Sloane Project Representative

Ms Karyn Shenton
Clinical Advisor in Breast Surgery

Mrs Margaret Casey
Nursing Representative

Mrs Jacquie Jenkins
Member

Mr Ramsey Cutress
Chair
Research interests include breast cancer translational research; breast cancer clinical trials and p
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Miss Leena Chagla
ABS Vice President/ Clinical Advisor in Breast Surgery

Miss Shelley Potter
Secretary
Research interests include Improving outcomes in breast reconstruction; Surgical trials methodology;
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Miss Sarah Clark
Member
Sarah Clark has been a Consultant Oncoplastic Breast & Skin Surgeon at Poole Hospital since 2014
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Mr Rajiv Dave
Member
Rajiv is a consultant surgeon in the Nightingale & Genesis Breast Cancer Prevention Centre, at W
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Miss Beatrix Elsberger
Member
Beatrix Elsberger has been a Consultant Breast Surgeon at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary since 2018.She un
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Miss Toral Gathani
Member
Toral is a Senior Clinical Research Fellow in Clinical Epidemiology at the Nuffield Department of Po
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Prof Chris Holcombe
President
Research interests include the management of breast cancer in older women and treatment choices for
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Miss Charlotte Ives
Member

Mr Baek Kim
Member
Research interests include investigation of potential biomarkers in breast cancer patients treated w
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Mr Stuart McIntosh
RCS Surgical Specialty Lead
Research interests include Chemoprevention in high risk patient groups; Biomarker driven studies in
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Jenna Morgan
Mammary Fold Academic & Research Committee Representative
Jenna is an NIHR Clinical Lecturer in Breast Surgery in the Yorkshire and Humber Deanery. She comple
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Miss Rachel O'Connell
Junior SSL Representative

Mr Neill Patani
Member
Mr Neill Patani BSc (Hons) MBBS (Hons) PhD FRCS, is a Consultant Oncoplastic Breast Surgeon (UCLH),
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Mr Tim Rattay
Junior SSL Representative
Research interests include prediction of local treatment side-effects (toxicity) in the breast using
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Mrs Hilary Stobart
Patient Representative

Mr Amit Agrawal
Member
Consultant Oncoplastic Breast Surgeon, Cambridge University Hospitals

Ms Sarah Thorpe
Trials Nurses Representative

Ms Lynda Wyld
Member
Research interests include geriatric oncology, psychooncology, data modelling, mixed methods researc
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Mrs Isabella Karat
Yearbook Editor

Mr Lee Martin
Aesthetic Committee Chair

Miss Sue Down
Education & Training Committee Chair

Prof Chris Holcombe
President
Research interests include the management of breast cancer in older women and treatment choices for
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Miss Emma De Sousa
Member

Miss Lucy Khan
Member
Lucy Khan qualified from the University of Edinburgh in 2006 and trained at the Edinburgh Breast uni
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Mr Steven Thrush
Member

Mr Philip Turton
Member

Mr Sherif Wilson
BAPRAS Representative

Mr Dibyesh Banerjee
Member
Mr Dibyesh Banerjee MBBS MS FRCSEd FRCS, is a Consultant Oncoplastic Breast Surgeon based at St Geor
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Miss Pankaj Roy
South East Central Regional Representative

Ms Karina Cox
CPSC Chair

Mr Lee Martin
Aesthetic Committee Chair

Mr Giles Cunnick
ABS & NHS BSP Screening Committee Chair

Mr Pud Bhaskar
Clinical Advisor in Breast Surgery/ Northern Regional Representative

Miss Leena Chagla
ABS Vice President/ Clinical Advisor in Breast Surgery

Mr Seni Mylvaganam
Clinical Advisor in Breast Surgery/ Sloane Project Represenative

Prof Chris Holcombe
President
Research interests include the management of breast cancer in older women and treatment choices for
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Mr Sumohan Chatterjee
North West Regional Representative

Mrs Ritchie Chalmers
South East Coast Regional Representative

Miss Carol-Ann Courtney
East Midlands Regional Representative
Carol-Ann Courtney has been a Consultant Oncoplastic Breast Surgeon in Derby since 2007. Her interes
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Miss Isabella Dash
South West Regional Representative
Izzy works as a Consultant Oncoplastic Breast Surgeon in North Bristol NHS Trust and Weston General
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Miss Harleen Deol
Eastern Regional Representative

Mrs Claudia Harding-Mackean
Merseyside Regional Representative

Mrs Sue Holcombe
Nursing Trustee
Sue currently works as an ANP (Breast) and continues to work in diagnostic clinics, family history c
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Ms Jennifer Hu
Coding Representative

Miss Tracey Irvine
GiRFT Representative

Miss Natasha Jiwa
Mammary Fold Representative

Mrs Isabella Karat
Yearbook Editor

Mr Ilyas Khattak
Wales Regional Representative

Mr Rick Linforth
Yorkshire and Humberside Regional Representative
Rick Linforth trained in the regional teaching hospitals of Glasgow, Manchester, Liverpool, and Lee
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Mr Sekhar Marla
West Midlands Regional Representative

Miss Helen Mathers
Northern Ireland Regional Representative

Mr Vassilis Pitsinis
Scotland Regional Representative
Vassilis Pitsinis is a consultant breast surgeon in NHS Tayside (Ninewells Hospital and Medical Scho
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Ms Kathryn Rigby
Communications Rep

Miss Nicola Roche
ABS Trustee

Miss Pankaj Roy
South East Central Regional Representative

Mr Maurice Stokes
Society of Irish Breast Surgeons Representative

Mr Mark Sibbering
Screening Committee Representative

Prof Jayant Vaidya
London Regional Representative

Miss Ruth Waters
BAPRAS Representative
Ruth Waters is a Consultant Plastic and Reconstructive surgeon at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital of th
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Miss Sue Down
Education & Training Committee Chair

Miss Leena Chagla
ABS Vice President/ Clinical Advisor in Breast Surgery

Miss Sarah Downey
Trustee
I trained in Nottingham, Bristol, Manchester and Yorkshire. I have been a consultant surgeon at the
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Prof Chris Holcombe
President
Research interests include the management of breast cancer in older women and treatment choices for
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Ms Lynda Wyld
Member
Research interests include geriatric oncology, psychooncology, data modelling, mixed methods researc
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Mrs Isabella Karat
Yearbook Editor

Miss Rachel Bright-Thomas
Member
Rachel has been a consultant breast surgeon in Worcestershire since 2006. Within the breast surgery
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Mr Matthew Barber
Member
Matthew Barber is a Consultant Breast Surgeon in Edinburgh and West Lothian, Honorary Senior Lecture
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Mrs Geeta Shetty
member
Geeta Shetty has been an Oncoplastic and reconstructive surgery Consultant since April 2013. She has
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Mr Douglas Ferguson
Honorary Treasurer
Mr Douglas Ferguson qualified in 1993 (St George’s, London), achieved FRCS (Eng) in 1997, a TiG Onco
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Mr Hasnain Haider
Member

Mr Yazan Masannat
Member

Mrs Ann Pearson
Nursing Member

Mrs Karen Ives-Smith
Nursing Member

Miss Amtul Sami
SAS Representative
Miss Sami works as a Speciality Doctor, Breast Surgery, at Lincoln County Hospital, Lincoln, where s
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Miss Leyla Swafe
Mammary Fold representative

Mr Dick Rainsbury
Chair
Dick Rainsbury was Foundation Breast Tutor then Director of Education at The Royal College of Surgeo
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Miss Leena Chagla
ABS Vice President/ Clinical Advisor in Breast Surgery

Prof John Benson
Member
Research interests include investigation of a fluorescent navigation system for sentinel lymph node
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Ms Lis Grimsey
Member

Mrs Janet Hicks
Member

Mr Mike McKirdy
Member
