Name:
Professor Kwok-Leung Cheung
Job Title:
Professor of Breast Surgery and Medical Education, and Deputy Head of Education and Director of The BMBS Medicine Programmes
Organisation / Company:
University of Nottingham
Biography:
Professor Kwok-Leung Cheung is Professor of Breast Surgery and Medical Education, and Deputy Head of Education and Director of The BMBS Medicine Programmes at the University of Nottingham. He qualified and trained in Hong Kong, was appointed as Consultant Breast Surgeon, Nottingham University Hospitals in 2001, and is now an Honorary Consultant Breast Surgeon at the University Hospitals of Derby and Burton. Professor Cheung has clinical and research interests in breast cancer and geriatric oncology. He has served many roles in the International Society of Geriatric Oncology (SIOG) where he is currently the President-Elect and the UK National Representative. He is also a member of the Executive Committee of the European Society of Breast Cancer Specialists (EUSOMA), and of the Breast Cancer Clinical Guidelines Committee and the Expert Adviser Panel of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE). In 2010, Professor Cheung pioneered the Symposium on Primary Breast Cancer in Older Women in the UK, which has now become a biennial event, hosted by the University under the auspices of SIOG.