Professor Gerry Hanna has been appointed to Chair of Clinical Oncology at Trinity College and St Luke’s Radiation Oncology Network (SLRON)

Trinity College Dublin shared a post on LinkedIn:

“Professor Gerry Hanna has been appointed to Chair of Clinical Oncology at Trinity College (School of Medicine: Discipline of Radiation Therapy), Trinity St James’s Cancer Institute and St Luke’s Radiation Oncology Network (SLRON).

Head of School of Medicine, Professor Colin Doherty said:

‘We are delighted to welcome Professor Hanna as the new Marie Curie Chair of Clinical Oncology. This is a joint post with St Luke’s Radiation Oncology Network and will be working within our Discipline of Radiation Therapy in the School of Medicine. New paradigms and conceptual shifts in cancer treatment have seen a blossoming of focused radiation therapy that is now acting in concert with other immunological therapies to deliver less toxic, more comprehensive treatment for common previously incurable cancers. Gerry brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to this post, and has previously held posts as the Chair of Oncology at the Northern Ireland Cancer Centre in Belfast City Hospital and honorary appointments at Queen’s University Belfast and the University of Melbourne. He is an international research leader in the field of radiation therapy.’

You can read more on this appointment here.”

Source: Trinity College Dublin/LinkedIn