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Professor Phil Drew
Phil Drew
Dr John Kennedy
John Kennedy
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Professor Philip J Drew is a Professor / Honorary Consultant Breast Surgeon
within the Hull York Medical School. He qualified from St Mary’s Hospital,
London in 1990. He was awarded an MD with honours from the University of
Hull for his thesis on the clinical application of breast MRI and a MS from the
University of London for his work on artificial neural networks and
prognostication. His clinical training was in London, Yorkshire (as Professor
Kerin’s lecturer) and the Cardiff Breast Unit. His team’s breast research
interests include the immunology and genetics of breast cancer including
proteomic investigation of mechanisms of radio/chemoresistance, prediction
of outcome with artificial intelligence techniques and applications of MRI.
With support from his NHS colleagues his clinical activity includes an
extensive oncoplastic breast practice which has provided opportunities for
qualitative research and the development of novel surgical techniques. He
has previously been awarded a Hunterian Professorship from the Royal
College of Surgeons of England. He has produced more than 100 academic
papers and contributed to several books on breast surgery. He acts as
surgical advisor to the randomised multicentre UK HTA trial of comparing
MRI and mammographic planning for breast conserving surgery (COMICE)
and the recently approved NEO-COMICE trial.
Dr. Kennedy holds the position as Consultant Medical Oncologist at St
James’s Hospital and St. Lukes Hospital and Director of the Cancer Clinical
Trials Consortium at St James's Hospital. Dr. Kennedy holds a Bachelor of
Medicine, a Bachelor of Surgery and a Bachelor of Obstetrics from the
University of Dublin, Trinity College where he was awarded a first class
degree and won the university Gold Medal in 1983. His training took him
from Ireland to the United States where he began a Clinical Fellowship in
Oncology at the renowned Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore in 1987
and rose to the position of Associate Professor of Oncology before returning
to Ireland in 1998. He is the Chairman of the Irish Clinical Oncology Research
Group (ICORG), immediate past Chairman of the Irish Society for Medical
Oncology, and Chairman of the Medical Committee of the Irish Cancer
Society. His major research interest is in breast cancer.