Breast screening
Management of benign and malignant breast disease
Women with a family history of breast cancer

Consultant Breast Surgeon , Edinburgh Breast Unit, Western General Hospital, Crewe Road
NHS Lothian

Royal College of Surgeons Edinburgh

The Edinburgh Breast Unit, where I currently hold my NHS position, is one of the largest breast units in the UK, it  deals with over 7,000 new patient referrals and 12,000 review patients,  The cancer workload of the unit amounts to over 770 new breast cancer patients and a further 150 recurrent cancer cases.  I provide a specialist service for the diagnosis and management of all forms of breast cancer but specialise in screen detected and familial abnormalities, including breast reconstruction and other onco-plastic techniques. I integrate closely with a number of other disciplines including pathology, radiology, oncology and clinical genetics. I continue to provide clinical and administrative leadership for the Familial Breast Cancer Clinic in addition to co-ordinating Adinex research programmes.  This is a clinic I initiated and developed in 1992 and has formed the basis of significant National and International Research.

Previous positions include:

Senior Lecturer (part time) 1994-2011
Consultant with administrative responsibility for the Edinburgh Breast Unit April 1999-2002
Clinical Director of the South East of Scotland Breast Screening Programme April 2002-January 2008 and Clinical Director for Cancer and Palliative Care Jan 2008-March 2011

My current position is that of Consultant Breast Surgeon in the Edinburgh Breast Unit. I have been in post since 1994 and specialise in medical and surgical management of breast disease only. I am also the Clinical Director for Breast and Plastic Surgery for NHS Lothian.

As a female I am able to offer the opportunity to be treated by a doctor of the same gender to those women for whom this is important. My personal ethos has always been centred on high quality person centred care in a multidisciplinary setting.