National Prostate Cancer Conference 2006 - Speakers
Dr. Ian Banks BSc. BAO. BCh. MB. MSc. PhD.
In a previous life Ian Banks was once a television repair man. He might not be able to cure you but he can do wonders for your vertical hold. He has four children, delivering one himself. "Not quite the same as child birth but at least I got to shout 'push'." While working part-time as a family doctor and A&E officer in Belfast, he also represents doctors for the British Medical Association as a member of Council for the UK and awarded a BMA accolade, the Association Medal. He worked on the Developing Patient Partnerships (DPP formerly Doctor Patient Partnership) for six years.
Being a member of the BMA’s Patient Liaison Group fits with his role as the official spokesman on men’s health issues for the BMA, president of the European Mens Health Forum and the England & Wales Men’s Health Forum, vice president of the International Society for the Study of Mens Health, deputy editor of the Mens Health Gender Journal and for six years the medical editor for The Men’s Health Magazine.
The BBC book ‘The Trouble with Men’ was written by Ian in 1996 to accompany the television series of the same name. It was followed by Men’s Health, The Good Patient Guide, The Children's Health Guide, Get Fit with Brittas, Men’s Health in General Practice, Ask About Sex and the 50th NHS Anniversary book from the NHSE/HEA The Home Medicine Guide. He is also the author of the NHS Direct Healthcare Guide and Web site.
His latest books are 'The Dad’s Survival Guide', 'The Haynes Man Workshop Manual', 'The Haynes Baby Workshop Manual', ,The Haynes Sex Workshop Manual', 'The Haynes Woman Workshop Manual', 'The Haynes Cancer Manual', 'The Haynes HGV MAN manual on men and weight'. The latest manual, ‘Brain’ deals with men and mental well being. Ian was appointed visiting professor of mens health in Europe by Leeds Metropolitan University in 2005.
Jonathan Berry
Jonathan is the Executive Director, Health Improvement for ContinYou, a national learning and health improvement charity. He has been in this post for two years. Prior to this he worked for over twelve years in the NHS where his key focus was Public and Patient Involvement, including awareness raising. Since joining ContinYou he has taken a lead in developing the national Skilled for Health Programme which links basic skills learning with health improvement.
Mike Birtwistle
Mike Birtwistle is a Consultant for AS Biss & Co, a leading public affairs and government relations consultancy. He advises a range of clients with health interests, including the Prostate Cancer Charter for Action, which was shortlisted for Public Affairs Campaign of the Year by PR Week.
Elizabeth Butler
Elizabeth Butler is a nutritional therapist specialising in the support of those with cancer. Elizabeth is Senior Nutritional Therapist at the Bristol Cancer Help Centre, her role being to provide leadership and direction in the development of the nutritional component of the Bristol Approach. In addition she has as a private practice and also spends time writing and teaching on the subject of nutrition and cancer.
Elizabeth graduated from university with a degree in Biochemistry and then spent 3 years training to become a nutritional therapist. Currently she is completing her Masters degree in Nutritional Medicine and as part of this qualification she is carrying out research into the effect of diet on recovery from cancer. Elizabeth has worked with several UK doctors leading the way in the field of alternative and complementary cancer treatment.
Declan Cahill
Declan Cahill is a Consultant Urological Surgeon at Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals. His special are of interest is prostate cancer as part of a comprehensive service. As well as counselling patients on their diagnosis and treatment options, his part in the team is to deliver laparoscopic (Keyhole) radical prostatectomy and High Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU) treatments.
Maggie Crowe EN, RGN, MA, MSc
Maggie is currently working as consultant nurse and lead cancer nurse at the Royal United Hospital in Bath. Maggie has had over 15 years experience in a number of oncology nursing posts including chemotherapy nursing and working in an advance practice role with ovarian cancer patients. Maggie is currently deputy chair of the United Kingdom Oncology Nursing Society board. She has been influential on a number of national advisory groups and is currently a joint principal investigator for a multi-centre study investigating the supportive care needs of people following potentially curative cancer treatment. Key interests for Maggie include knowledge and competencies of nurses caring for cancer patients in non-specialist cancer areas. She is passionate about the contribution made by nurses to the care of cancer patients and their families.
Grant Duncan
Grant Duncan has been in advertising man and boy since leaving St. Andrews University in 1982, culminating in becoming Chief Executive of Publicis.
Over that time, Grant has worked with many great clients – the Met Police, Scottish Courage, French Connection, Muller, Barclaycard, The Army and Renault to name a few. He has also worked extensively with the Government on four privatisations as well as with HM Treasury, the DTI, DfEE, Department of Environment and DWP.
As well as being a long-standing Trustee of The Prostate Cancer Charity, Grant is also Chairman of NABS, a Council Member and Fellow of the IPA, Chairman of the IPA's Ethcom Committee, Chairman of the ASA's General Media Panel, Chairman of the Marketing Society's Marketing Services Business Leaders' Group and a member of London First’s Economic Panel.
In his spare time he dotes on his two children and Chelsea Football Club but not always in that order!
Professor Paul Forster, Chairman, The Prostate Cancer Charity
Paul was appointed Chairman of The Prostate Cancer Charity in March 2005, is Deputy Chairman of the Board of Governors of Nottingham Trent University, a Visiting Professor at Nottingham Business School and Chairman of CVC Group.
Paul was diagnosed with advanced and incurable prostate cancer in October 1999 following a BUPA Health Screen that identified a PSA of 78. He had no obvious symptoms of the disease. He was advised there was a 90 per cent probability that the cancer had escaped beyond the prostate gland and a prognosis that the recommended course of hormone therapy would remain effective on average for two years.
A year later, in addition to his hormone treatment, Paul commenced a programme of complementary therapy which included radical changes to diet and the addition of dietary supplements.
Seven years later, he remains well with no signs of disease progression. This enabled him, last autumn, to participate in the clinical trial of Intensity Modulated Radiotherapy (IMRT). He enjoys playing tennis and skiing. He brings a unique personal perspective to his role as Chairman of The Prostate Cancer Charity and a determination to ensure that all men are aware of all the options that should be available to them in facing and beating prostate cancer.
Freddie Hamdy
Freddie Hamdy is Chair of Urology and Head of Oncology at the University of Sheffield, and Consultant Urological Surgeon at the Sheffield Teaching Hospitals Trust. His clinical and research interests are in the management of prostate and bladder cancer. He is Principal Investigator of the ProtecT study in early prostate cancer.
Peter Loader
Peter was diagnosed with advanced metastatic prostate cancer in 2000. After much research he decided on the intermittent hormone therapy using three drugs plus bisphosphonates, supplements, mind/body techniques, diet change and exercise. Six years later he has applied to run the London Marathon again. Peter established the Somerset Prostate Cancer Support Association and is presently its secretary.
John Neate, Chief Executive, The Prostate Cancer Charity
John Neate has been Chief Executive of The Prostate Cancer Charity for nearly five years. This followed a period as Director of Development for the Multiple Sclerosis Society, leading a major change and renewal programme. Prior to that, John worked for the NHS, most recently as General Manager of two acute hospitals and as Director of Commissioning for Bromley Health.
John is highly committed to partnership working and, in particular, to the Prostate Cancer Charter for Action. He is a member of its Steering Group, a member of the Government's Prostate Cancer Advisory Group and Chairman of the UK Prostate Link (web portal to prostate cancer information) Steering Group.
He has recently joined the Board of the National Cancer Research Institute.
Netty Nichol
Netty Nichol qualified in 1995 from QA Hospital in Portsmouth. Having worked in Urology for 10 years, initially as a ward based nurse, she left clinical nursing in 1999 to join The Prostate Cancer Charity. She worked initially on the helpline and subsequently as lead nurse for information and support services. In 2003 she returned to clinical practice, joining the Uro-Oncology team at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust. She helped to set up the brachytherapy and HIFU services before recently joining the model of care/rapid access team on secondment to look at new ways of working. This project involves the re-design of urology services, setting up a one-stop service for patients entering the urology department at Guy’s and St Thomas’.
Dr Chris Parker, Senior Lecturer and Honorary Consultant in Clinical Oncology, Institute of Cancer Research and Royal Marsden Hospital
Dr Chris Parker is a Cancer Research UK Clinician Scientist, and Senior Lecturer and Honorary Consultant in Clinical Oncology at the Institute of Cancer Research and Royal Marsden Hospital. He is the chief investigator on the MRC RADICALS trial, and a member of the Doha Prostate Cancer Advisory Group, the NICE Prostate Cancer Guideline Development Group, and the NCRI Prostate Clinical Studies Group.
Baroness Pitkeathley OBE
Jill Pitkeathley trained as a social worker and was a child care officer in Manchester and Essex. In the 1970s she worked for the health service as a Voluntary Services Coordinator in Berkshire.
In 1986 she became Chief Executive of what was then the National Council for Carers and led the carers movement for the next 12 years, creating Carers National Association (now Carers UK) and turning what had been a private, hidden trouble, the needs of Great Britain’s six million carers, into a public issue, high on the political and social policy agenda.
From 1998 to 2004 she was the first Chair of the New Opportunities Fund, responsible for allocating £2 billion of lottery money and also was the first Chair of the General Social Care Council for its first six months.
In 2004 Jill became Chair of CAFCASS (Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service) which is an NDPB that looks after the interests of children involved in family proceedings. It works with children and their families, and advises the courts on what it considers to be in the best interests of the child.
In 2005 she also took on the role of Chair of the Home Office Advisory Panel on Futurebuilders.
Jill is currently President of Volunteering England, Community Council for Berkshire and The Prostate Cancer Charity. She is Vice President of Carers UK and the Princess Royal Trust for Carers. She was raised to the peerage in 1997, sits on the Labour benches and is a very active working peer.
Jill has published several books on topics such as carers, volunteering and being an only child. Her first novel, published in 2004 is about the sister of Jane Austen. Her interests include walking – not too far, theatre and grandchildren.
Professor Alison Richardson, Professor of Cancer and Palliative Nursing Care, The Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery, King’s College London
Alison currently holds the Chair in Cancer and Palliative Nursing Care at the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery at King’s College London. She took up the position in June 1999 and prior to that managed Chartwell Unit at Bromley Hospital. She is committed to building an evidence base of relevance for practising cancer nurses. Her research interests focus on assessment and alleviation of difficult symptoms, notably cancer-related fatigue; support and self-management needs of people with cancer and their carers and implications for services; the nature of cancer and palliative nursing work , and education and training to support such work. Together with Professor Irene Higginson she led the team who developed the NICE Service Configuration Guidance on supportive and palliative care for those affected by cancer.
Andy Ripley
Andy is one of the most cherished figures in the rugby world and one of Britain's sporting icons. He won 24 caps with England in the 1970s, was a member of a Lions tour to South Africa in 1974, a Rosslyn Park stalwart into his forties, BBC World Superstars champion, nationally ranked 400-metre hurdler, world indoor rowing champion, master yachtsman, Cambridge graduate, successful businessman.
At the age of 50 he had a stab at becoming the oldest man ever to row in the Boat Race, and he nearly succeeded.
Last year, Andy was diagnosed with locally advanced prostate cancer.
Anna Walker, Chief Executive of the Healthcare Commission
Anna is Chief Executive of the Healthcare Commission which was created in April 2004. The Commission’s role is to promote improvement in health and healthcare through the assessment of the performance of healthcare organisations in both the public and private sectors.
Anna has wide ranging experience in regulation and performance improvement. She was Director General, Land Use and Rural Affairs at DEFRA from 2001-2004. Her responsibilities there included drawing up a new rural policy following the foot and mouth disease outbreak. She was also responsible for a review of DEFRA’s regulatory functions and arms length bodies. She also co-ordinated DEFRA’s strategy.
Prior to that, Anna was Director General, Energy at the Department of Trade and Industry (1998-2001) – responsible for all aspects of the government’s energy policy including the regulation of the energy industry. She was Deputy Director General at the Office of Telecommunications regulating the telecommunications industry from 1994-98. Anna joined the Department of Trade and Industry in 1975 following jobs at the British Council and the Confederation of British Industry. She was Assistant Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for Industry between 1977-79.
Anna is married and lives in London. She has three daughters, when time allows, she likes to travel, cycle and walk!
Humphrey Walters
Humphrey Walters has spent the past 30 years inspiring and motivating individuals, teams and corporations in leadership and management and the concept of 'The business of winning'. He talks extensively on the steps necessary to develop high performing winning teams and winning leaders and works with many global organisations.
Humphrey spent 11 months competing in the BT Global Yacht Challenge where he used this hostile environment to study how teamship, trust and leadership were developed and maintained. Subsequently, he was co-author of the book 'Global Challenge' which has sold over 30,000 copies. It has become standard reading in many organisations who are interested in creating an inspirational environment.
Professor Jonathan Waxman, President, The Prostate Cancer Charity
Jonathan Waxman is a Professor of Oncology at the Hammersmith Hospital, London. He has developed new treatments for cancer, which are now part of standard practice. He is the author of around 300 research papers and chapters, and of eleven books on cancer. He directs a laboratory research group comprising 18 scientists. He has raised funds for the building of the Hammersmith Cancer Centre whose spirit aims to combine the best of conventional and alternative therapies. In 1996 he founded The Prostate Cancer Charity, the first United Kingdom national organisation promoting research and patient support for this condition. In 1998 he helped establish an All Party Parliamentary Group to improve cancer treatment and rationalise cancer research throughout the UK.
Julie Whitehouse PhD, MNIMH
Julie Whitehouse is a principal lecturer at the University of Westminster, School of Integrated Health, and is the course leader of the BSC Honours Health Science: Herbal Medicine degree. She is a practising medical herbalist and member of The National Institute of Medical Herbalists.
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