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Biography
Mr. Hellawell is a consultant urological surgeon at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and Northwick Park and St. Mark’s Hospital.
He trained in laparoscopic oncology at Imperial College and at the Monash Medical Centre in Melbourne, Australia. He completed a laparoscopic radical prostatectomy fellowship in Leipzig, Germany with Professor Stolzenburg at the University of Leipzig.
In addition to general urology he has a sub-specialty interest in urological oncology including prostate, bladder and renal cancer. He has a high volume practice in laparoscopic pelvic oncology (laparoscopic radical prostatectomy and radical cystectomy) and upper tract laparoscopy (laparoscopic nephrectomy).
He provides a complete general urology service including surgery for benign prostate disease and renal stone disease. He maintains an academic interest in clinical research and has published book chapters and papers on prostate cancer and laparoscopic surgery.
Medical training
University of Oxford 1988 – 1994
Biography
Mrs Katy Hogben graduated in London in 1993 and trained in the south west Thames region in general surgery. She obtained a national oncoplastic training fellowship in 2005 and commenced her consultant post at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust in 2006.
She is lead surgeon of the west of London breast screening unit and meetings secretary of the Association of Breast Surgery UK. She is also training programme director for higher surgery in west London.
Biography
Dr Kenny qualified in medicine in 1995, and became a consultant in medical oncology in 2009.
She is actively involved in breast cancer research including clinical trials, and has expertise in molecular imaging using PET.
Her research work has been awarded both nationally and internationally, and she regularly reviews articles for leading cancer journals.
Biography
Dr Alex King has worked in specialist psycho-oncology (cancer psychological care) in major London centres for over a decade, and currently leads the cancer psychology team at Imperial Healthcare NHS Trust.
Dr King obtained his BSc Psychology at the University of Kent and his MSc and DClinPsy Doctorate of Clinical Psychology at University College, London, where he continues to teach and supervise research and clinical trainees.
Clinically, Dr King’s approach draws flexibly on solution-focused, cognitive-analytic and cognitive-behavioural models, and he has a particular interest in treatment decision-making, preparing for surgery, and long-term effects of complex cancer treatments such as haematological stem-cell transplantation.
Additional languages spoken: Greek
Biography
Ms Kyrgiou is a senior lecturer at Imperial College London and a consultant gynaecologist and gynaecologic oncologist. She has trained in obstetrics and gynaecology and subsequently specialised in advanced minimal access surgery (laparoscopy and hysteroscopy) and gynaecologic oncology at the West London Gynaecological Cancer Centre at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust.
She completed a masters of science in advanced gynaecological endoscopy at the University of Surrey and a doctorate thesis in ovarian cancer chemotherapy. She has expertise in the management of cervical, vulva and endometrial pre-invasive and invasive disease and has led research investigating the impact of their treatment on reproduction. Her main clinical interest is colposcopy, gynaecologic oncology, fertility-sparing surgery for gynaecological malignancies, endometriosis, menstrual disorders and surgery for benign and (pre) cancerous gynaecological conditions.
For details of publications by Ms Kyrgiou please visit http://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/m.kyrgiou
Languages spoken: Greek
Biography
Dr Charles Lowdell studied at Harrow and then Charing Cross Medical School. He has been a consultant at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust since 1991.
Biography
Dr Won-Ho Edward Park is a Clinical Oncology Consultant who trained at Imperial and The Royal Marsden Hospitals and started as a Consultant in 2011.
Cancer types of sub-specialist interest are oesophago-gastric and gynaecological cancers.
Biography
Dr Sarah Partridge has been a consultant clinical oncologist at Charing Cross Hospital (Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust) since 2002. She graduated from Guys and St.Thomas’ Hospital in 1990, following which she completed five years of postgraduate specialist training in oncology in London based between Charing Cross, Guys & St.Thomas’, and Mount Vernon hospitals. A research fellowship in Vancouver, Canada, between 1999-2000 contributed to insights regarding the effects of reversing tumour hypoxia. She completed a diploma (with distinction) in clinical hypnotherapy in 2005, and developed a service for cancer patients based at Charing Cross, as part of her role as lead for complementary therapy services.
During a sabbatical year based at Mount Vernon Hospital from Sept 2016-2017, she expanded her experience of treating thyroid cancer patients, and submitted research proposals for hypnotherapy studies.
Working closely with the surgical and nursing teams, Dr Partridge sees and treats patients diagnosed with head & neck cancer including cancers of the larynx (voice box), tongue, tonsil and other rarer sites. She supervises, prescribes and plans curative treatments with radiotherapy and chemotherapy as well as giving post-operative radiotherapy treatments. Intensity modulated radiotherapy is used as standard in these cases, including immunotherapy in appropriate cases. Her expertise in clinical hypnosis presents an opportunity to integrate this with other conventional treatments to improve side-effects and outcomes.
As well as her clinical roles Dr Sarah Partridge works a college representative for the Royal College of Radiologists, has played a role as an ethics tutor and facilitator for the Imperial Medical School. She remains keen to offer holistic cancer care to her patients.