Prof David Bloomfield

I specialise in the management of breast and urological cancer. I have been heavily influenced by a Clinical Research Fellowship in Canada where I had the opportunity to study clinical epidemiology at the University of Toronto, concentrating on the effectiveness of treatments and developing clinical research trials.

My specialist training was at University College Hospital London and the Royal Marsden. I was appointed to a Consultant Clinical Oncologist post in Sussex in 1998. In 2001 I set up the Sussex Cancer Research Network. I have led Oncology as Head of Department since 2004 and then appointed to Principal Lead Clinician for Cancer Services at BSUH in 2006.

I have a longstanding interest in teaching; The MSc in Oncology at the Institute of Cancer Research that I set up as joint Course Director in 2006 has gone from strength to strength. It currently educates about half of the UK oncology specialists. I have also been keen to introduce oncology to the medical students at Brighton & Sussex Medical School early in their clinical studies.

As a member of the Specialist Training Advisory Committee for Clinical Oncology, I led a move to incorporate Quality Improvement into the curriculum. In 2012, I was nominated and appointed to Council of the Royal College of Radiologists.