I am a Professor of Medical Oncology at the Centre for Public Health, Queen’s University Belfast and a Consultant at the Northern Ireland Cancer Centre with an interest in oesophago-gastric and pancreatic cancer.  Having graduated in medicine from Queen’s University Belfast I began specialty training in Medical Oncology and was awarded a Cancer Research UK Bobby Moore Clinical Research Fellowship to pursue a PhD in novel drug target discovery in colo-rectal cancer under the supervision of Professor Patrick Johnston.  Following completion of my Phd I was appointed as an Academic Clinical Lecturer in the field of oesophago-gastric cancer and became a Visiting Research Fellow at the Hutchison/MRC Cancer Unit, University of Cambridge, under the supervision of Professor Rebecca Fitzgerald.  My work has been published in high impact journals and I have received the American Society of Clinical Oncology Merit Award.  My principle research interests include oesophago-gastric and pancreatic cancer and the analysis of genomic datasets for the discovery of biomarkers for early detection, treatment response and biological insights of pre-malignant disease and cancer.  These discoveries are being translated into clinical advances through the implementation of biomarker-led clinical trials.  As part of the upper gastrointestinal cancer team at Queen’s University Belfast I seek to transform the care of oesophago-gastric and pancreatic cancer patients through the integration of laboratory discoveries, translational science and clinical research.