Dr. Paul Nankivell received his Ph.D. from the University of Warwick in 2013 and completed his Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (FRCS ORL-HNS) in 2014. He began his career in Otolaryngology in the West Midlands, followed by an NIHR academic clinical lectureship. In 2017, he undertook an advanced head and neck fellowship in Melbourne. Dr. Nankivell is a Consultant ENT and head and neck surgeon at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham. He is also a member of the NCRI Head and Neck Clinical Studies Group and the NCRI Head and Neck Surgery and localized therapies sub-group. His research interests include oral and laryngeal premalignancy, head and neck cancer iomarkers, and HPV-positive oropharyngeal cancer.
Prof. Hisham Mehanna received his Ph.D. in the Assessment of Quality of Life in Head and Neck Cancers from Erasmus University in 2010. He is the Chair of Head and Neck Surgery and Director of the Institute of Head and Neck Studies and Education (InHANSE) at the Department of Cancer and Genomic Sciences. Prof. Mehanna is a head and neck, and thyroid surgeon with a clinical focus on recurrent thyroid and parathyroid surgery. His research, which spans clinical and translational fields, has attracted over £18 million in grants and influenced clinical practices globally.
Gozde Ozakinci received her PhD in Psychology from the Rutgers-State University of New Jersey in 2004. She worked as Academic Fellow, Lecturer and Senior Lecturer at University of St Andrews (2004-2021). In 2021, she moved to University of Stirling as Professor of Psychology. Her research topics mainly include: fear of cancer recurrence, social prescribing, health behaviour change, physical activity.
