Our Team

NBOCA Project Team

• Orouba Almilaji – Research Fellow
• Helen Blake – Clinical Fellow
• Michael Braun – Clinical Co-Lead (Medical Oncology)
• Karen Darley – Senior Project Manager
• Nicola Fearnhead – Clinical Co-Lead (Surgery)
• Angela Kuryba – Quantitative Analyst
• Jan van der Meulen – Senior Methodologist
• Adil Rashid – Clinical Fellow
• Kate Walker – Senior Methodologist
• Leo Watton – Clinical Fellow

NBOCA Clinical Advisory Group

• Robert Arnott – ACPGBI, Patient Liaison Group and Chair of NBOCA Patient & Public Involvement Forum
  
• Elaine Burns – ACPGBI, Chair of Research & Audit Committee
• Mark Cheetham – GIRFT, Clinical Lead for General Surgery 
• Chloe Chin – Palliative Medicine
  
• Chris Cunningham – ACPGBI, Chair of Cancer Sub-Committee
  
• Lucy Danks – NHS England Cancer Programme
• Justin Davies – ACPGBI, President
• Shauna Eddery – NHS England Cancer Programme
• Martyn Evans (Chair) – NHS Wales Representative, Consultant Colorectal Surgeon
• Omar Faiz – NHS England Representative, Consultant Colorectal Surgeon
  
• Sarah Galbraith – Palliative Medicine 
  
• Julie Lane – ACPGBI, Association of Nursing (ACPN) Committee Representative
  
• Jose Lourtie – National Emergency Laparotomy Audit (NELA) Representative
  
• Andy McMeeking – Transforming Cancer Services Team for London
  
• Rebecca Muirhead – Royal College of Radiologists, Clinical Oncology Representative 
• Andrew Murphy – NHS England, Cancer Datasets Representative 
  
• Julie Nossiter – NATCAN, Director of Operations
• Deborah Robinson – NHS England Cancer Programme
• Caroline Rogers – HQIP, Associate Director
  
• Kate Roggan – Nursing Team Representative
  
• Tracy Smith – Lynch Syndrome UK
• Annalise Summercorn-Katz – ACPGBI, Duke’s Club Representative
• Damian Tolan – British Society of Gastrointestinal & Abdominal Radiology (BSGAR) Representative
  
• Abigail Vallance – Colorectal Surgery Trainee Representative
• Dale Vimalachandran – ACPGBI, Research & Audit Committee Member 
  
• Sarah Walker – HQIP, Project Manager
  
• Nick West – Royal College of Pathologists, Associate Professor of Pathology 
  
• Lisa Wilde – Bowel Cancer UK 

NBOCA Patient and Public Involvement Forum

• Robert Arnott (Chair) – ACPGBI
• Katrina Attwood – Patient Representative
• Suzanne Dore – Patient Representative
• Ian Jackson – Patient Representative
• Robin Johnston – Patient Representative
• Sam Alexandra Rose – Bowel Research UK, Charity Representative
• Pete Wheatstone – Patient Representative
• John Whelpton – Patient Representative