Committees

Mr Khout was appointed as a Consultant Oncoplastic Breast surgeon in 2013. He joined Nottingham Breast Institute in 2015 and introduced the Oncoplastic Forum (OPF) to streamline oncoplastic and reconstruction pathway. 

Mr Khout has special interest in using new technologies to facilitate decision making in oncoplastic surgery. He is also interested in minimising inequality in accessing oncoplastic procedures. 

Research interests include breast cancer translational research; breast cancer clinical trials and peri-surgical window studies and nutritional and metabolic determinants of breast cancer outcome.

Research interests include Improving outcomes in breast reconstruction; Surgical trials methodology; Feasibility studies using mixed (qualitative and quantative) methods; Systematic reviews. Other roles include Chair of the Mammary Fold Academic & Research Collaborative (MFAC) and Trainee member of the NCRI Breast Clinical Studies Group.

Research interests include investigation of a fluorescent navigation system for sentinel lymph node (SLN) detection and development of a model for assessing fibroblast transformation. Other roles include local Principle Investigator for several national trials including POSNOC and MarginProbe and co-investigator for BUBBLES, PRIMETIME and PIONEER.

Sarah Clark has been a Consultant Oncoplastic Breast & Skin Surgeon at Poole Hospital since 2014. She was awarded an MD in 2009 for her work on immunohistochemical profiling of DCIS. The Poole breast unit takes part in multiple national clinical trials in both  the neoadjuvant and adjuvant setting, including recently the POETIC, SERD2 and iBRA 1 and 2 trials and are currently recruiting to Primetime, POSNOC, i-BRA, Nostra and PARTNER.  She has a particular research interest in Nipple discharge and  implant based reconstruction and has set up the NUND Study which is soon to launch. 

Beatrix Elsberger has been a Consultant Breast Surgeon at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary since 2018.She undertook her surgical training  in Scotland and completed a fellowship at the Royal Women’s Hospital in Melbourne, Australia. She was awarded a PhD in 2011 (University of Glasgow) investigating the role of Src kinase in Breast cancer. She has recently been awarded a three-year NRS academic fellowship to pursue her research interests comprising clinical trials and translational biomarker research. 

Diagnosed with breast cancer in 1999, Pat became a patient advocate the following year and soon after a board member of a national breast cancer charity. Pat is a founder member of the Independent Cancer Patients' Voice and is now a Trustee. She is engaged in working with several trial management groups looking at patient information for recruitment.

Research interests include investigation of potential biomarkers in breast cancer patients treated with neoadjuvant systemic therapy. Previously on steering group for the TeaM study. Other previous roles include chair of the Mammary Fold and member of the Mammary Fold Academic & Research committee

Research interests include surgical technologies for oncological margin controls; surgical education, skills training and simulation and neuroergonomic research.

Research interests include Chemoprevention in high risk patient groups; Biomarker driven studies in the neoadjuvant treatment of breast cancer; Use of three dimensional surface imaging technologies in breast surgery. Other roles include Deputy Director Northern Cancer Ireland Cancer Trials Network and Member, NCRI Breast Clinical Studies Group.

Research interests include prediction of local treatment side-effects (toxicity) in the breast using clinical and molecular markers, population-based studies of breast surgery and reconstruction outcomes, and qualitative exploration of patients’ views of breast cancer treatments and clinical decision-making.  As academic surgical trainee, other leadership roles include Member of the international Radiogenomics Consortium, Member of the Mammary Fold Academic & Research Committee, and co-PI on two national trainee collaborative studies.

Research interests includes the oncological outcomes after oncoplastic breast conservations and post-mastectomy breast reconstructions, effect of peritumoural inflammation on recurrence and variations in old age breast cancer treatment. 

I am a Wessex trainee and I am excited to take on the role of Chair of the Mammary Fold Academic and Research Collaborative as of March 2019. As a group we are very ambitious to role out some important national research projects that we expect will make a big impact in day to day clinical practice. On a personal level, I would like to make research and academia less daunting to more trainees at all levels and hopefully encourage greater participation. I look forward to hearing from more trainees about their research ideas and meeting you at our Annual Research and Academic day

Research interests include geriatric oncology, psychooncology, data modelling, mixed methods research (qualitative and quantitative), quality of life research and clinical trials.   She leads the Age Gap study of cancer outcomes in older women with early breast cancer.

Research interests include the management of breast cancer in older women and treatment choices for women with breast cancer.

Research interests include the management of breast cancer in older women and treatment choices for women with breast cancer.

Izzy works as a Consultant Oncoplastic Breast Surgeon in North Bristol NHS Trust and Weston General Hospital. She undertook her surgical training in the South West, followed by a fellowship in Perth, Western Australia.

Sue currently works as an ANP (Breast) and continues to work in diagnostic clinics, family history clinics, home visits for elderly patients on primary endocrine patients on Primary Endocrine therapy.  She is chair of her hospital’s breast support group and is involved with patients having moving forward/end of treatment visits.

Ruth Waters is a Consultant Plastic and Reconstructive surgeon at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital of the University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Trust. She has specialised in all aspects of breast reconstruction but with a particular interest in microsurgical reconstruction and the surgical management of lymphoedema. She is the West Midlands representative on BAPRAS council and the breast TIG representative on the SAC

I trained in Nottingham, Bristol, Manchester and Yorkshire. I have been a consultant surgeon at the James Paget Hospital since 2005.  I was an MRCS examiner and Chair of the Court at the time of significant changes to the format. For 5 years, I was Divisional Director which gave me a broader understanding of the relationship between service provision and training. More recently, I have been Chair of the oncoplastic breast Training Interface group, a member of the SAC in General Surgery and appointed as Training Programme Director for the East of England. I am currently a QA surgeon. 

Research interests include the management of breast cancer in older women and treatment choices for women with breast cancer.

Rachel has been a consultant breast surgeon in Worcestershire since 2006. Within the breast surgery community Rachel has been a faculty member of the MS in Oncoplastic Breast Surgery Course and the Advanced Breast Disease Management course. More widely, she has been a clinical and educational supervisor for all levels of junior doctors, the college tutor for surgery, the director of the West Midlands’ core surgical teaching programme and she has recently become the area TPD for General Surgery in Coventry, Warwickshire and Worcestershire.

Mr Douglas Ferguson qualified in 1993 (St George’s, London), achieved FRCS (Eng) in 1997, a TiG Oncoplastic Fellowship in 2004 and in 2005 both an MS and the Gold medal for FRCS(GenSurg). He was appointed Exeter’s first Oncoplastic Surgeon in 2006 and Clinical Lead 2009; developing an accredited Oncoplastic centre of excellence, with National TiG Fellow Host status and is the ABS TiG rep. He has worked on regional STCs, as RCSEng College, University representative and as Medical Director at AAC panels. He established and convened several Oncoplastic SWOBS Courses. He was a RCSE Breast Tutor and is Faculty for ABS courses portfolio. He is a University of Exeter Hon Associate Professor for teaching/ research, supervises an MD student and is PI for 9 NCRN trials. He was privileged to be elected as ABS Honorary Treasurer in 2019.  He is the Chairman and a coach of his junior football club and continues to learn the guitar!

Alex is a senior Breast Trainee in the Severn region and has a particular educational interest in simulation and non-technical skills training having completed a fellowship in this area.

Dick Rainsbury was Foundation Breast Tutor then Director of Education at The Royal College of Surgeons and President of ABS. A strong advocate of comprehensive NHS breast and reconstructive services, he secured funding for the National Oncoplastic Fellowship programme, now training >100 consultants. He chaired the UK National Mastectomy and Breast Reconstruction Audit, and subsequent Guidelines for Oncoplastic Breast Reconstruction. He currently co-chairs the ABS International Forum with Leena Chagla, which aims to improve training in Low and Middle Income Countries.