Nottingham Galway - National University of Ireland, Galway

Professor Gordan Wishart
Gordan Wishart
Dr Margaret Sheehan
Margaret Sheehan
Gordon Wishart is a consultant breast & endocrine surgeon & Director of
Breast Services in Cambridge. During the last ten years in Cambridge he has
been instrumental in developing a strong multidisciplinary team that
delivers excellent survival results on par with the best centres in Europe. He
was one of two lead clinicians that were responsible for opening the
Cambridge Breast Cancer Research Unit in August 2008 to facilitate the
clinical breast cancer research programme. His research interests include
variation in breast cancer survival, investigation of new diagnostic and
screening technologies and optimisation of adjuvant therapy. He has
recently led a team of scientists and clinicians to produce a UK version of
Adjuvant! to be launched in 2009. He is surgical coordinator for several
neoadjuvant studies including NeoTanGo, Artemis, Monet & Artist and
recently published a protocol for tumour bed localisation to support
recruitment to trials of partial organ radiotherapy including IMPORT high
and low. In December 2009 he was appointed as Professor of Cancer Surgery
at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.
Consultant Pathologist BreastCheck West. Dr Margaret Sheehan is a
graduate of University College Cork. Her early post graduate training was
achieved at Cork University Hospital and St James Hospital, Dublin. She then
spent some time at St Mary’s Hospital, London working in Cytopathology
and achieving, during that time, an MSc in Cytopathology from Imperial
College London and the Diploma of the Royal College of Pathologists in
Cytopathology. She subsequently returned to Cork where she completed
research work on the Pathogenesis of Hepatitis C Virus liver disease,
presented for her MD theses. Thereafter, she worked in the UK, firstly in
Newcastle upon Tyne, then moving to Aberdeen in the North East of
Scotland where she spent 10 years working as a consultant
histopathologist/cytopathologist with NHS Grampian. Her work there
included providing histo and cytopathology for screening and symptomatic
breast services for the Grampian region extending to include Orkney and
Shetland Islands. Other areas of specialist interest include hepatopancreatico-biliary
pathology and upper GI pathology. She has been a
visiting lecturer to the International Medical University in Malaysia and is
actively involved in post graduate pathology training. In September 2007, Dr
Sheehan took up a post as Consultant Pathologist with BreastCheck West,
based at UCHG.
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