INTERNATIONAL Faculty

Prof Emma Crosbie

Prof Crosbie is an NIHR Advanced Fellow, Professor and Honorary Consultant Gynaecological Oncologist at the University of Manchester. Her research focuses on screening, prevention and early diagnosis of gynaecological cancers. Her research showed which patients with endometrial cancer should be tested for Lynch syndrome, how they should be tested, that women want to be tested to protect their family members and that testing everyone is cost-effective for the NHS. This led directly to a change in NICE guidance that all women with endometrial cancer be offered testing for Lynch syndrome. Her team won AACR Team Science Award 2024 for this work. Her leadership roles include Deputy Editor-in-Chief for BJOG, Chair of the Research Advisory Committee for The Eve Appeal and she is President of Peaches Womb Cancer Trust, the only UK charity that focuses exclusively on improving the lives of those affected by endometrial cancer. 

Prof Shannon Westin

Dr. Westin is a professor in the Department of Gynecologic Oncology and Reproductive Medicine at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. Dr. Westin focuses on developmental therapeutics and the use of biomarkers to predict response and recurrence in gynecologic malignancies. She currently serves as the Medical Director of the Gynecologic Oncology Center, Director of Early Drug Development and Phase I trials in her department and is a Co-Director of the Ovarian Cancer Moonshot. She is the co-PI for multiple major projects in her institution’s SPORE in Uterine Cancer and SPORE in Ovarian Cancer. At her institution, she is currently the PI or co-PI for greater than 30 novel treatment trials in gynecologic malignancies. In addition to previously serving on the National Cancer Institute (NCI) Uterine Task Force and Gynecologic Cancer Steering Committee (GCSC), she currently serves as a co-chair of the GCSC Ovarian Cancer Task Force and the MDACC Executive Scientific Review Committee.

local faculty

• James Aitken

• Emma Allanson

• Chloe Ayers

• Andrea Binks

• Alison Brand

• Julie Lamont

• His Honour Judge Laurie Levy SC

• Rosie McBain

• Orla McNally

• Raj Mohan