Presentations

Russell Patmore

Russell is a Consultant Haematologist at the Queen's Centre for Oncology and Haematology, Hull University Teaching    Hospitals NHS Trust, where he was also Medical Director for Clinical Support. He is clinical lead for the Haematological Malignancy Research Network (HMRN) and has contributed to the study’s research outputs for many years. 

Russell's specific areas of clinical expertise include lymphoma and autologous stem cell transplant, and he is an expert in communication techniques, which he teaches to junior staff.

Debra Howell

Debra is Professor of Health Services Research and Deputy Director of the Epidemiology & Cancer Statistics Group (ECSG). She is a founding member of the Haematological Malignancy Research Network (HMRN), ECSG's main research study, which was instigated in 2004. Her research focuses on patient experiences of blood cancer, including diagnosis, treatment and management, and survivorship, with a view to improving care.

Debra leads ECSG’s qualitative research and Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement (PPIE). She is also responsible for managing all of HMRN's data collection processes.

Bob Phillips

Bob is Professor of Paediatrics and Evidence Synthesis at the Centre for Reviews & Dissemination, Hull York Medical School. He is also an Honorary Consultant in Paediatric /Teenage-Young Adult Oncology at Leeds Children's Hospital and Director of Candlelights Supportive Care Research Centre.

Bob's main areas of work are in the development of Individual Participant Data (IPD) Meta-analysis, supportive care management, the development of appraisal skills and the translation of clinical research in practice.

Ian Hitchcock

Ian is Professor of Experimental Haematology in the Department of Biology, and Director of the newly-established Centre for Blood Research at the University of York.

Ian's research focuses on understanding the development of myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs), a group of blood cancers characterised by the overproduction of red blood cells and/or platelets.

Adele Fielding

Adele is a physician-scientist and Professor of Haematology at the Hull York Medical School. She was President of the British Society for Haematology from 2020 to 2022.

In 1999, Adele was appointed Assistant Professor at the Mayo Clinic in America. She returned to the UK in 2003, joining the Royal Free Hospital before moving to the University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Adele's research aims to improve the lives of people with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) and she is part of several clinical trials into this cancer, which explore underlying mechanisms and search for new treatments.

John Dodds

Blood Cancer Patient