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| 23-24 April 2010 | Melanoma and Sarcoma |
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Mr Robert Grimer
Rob Grimer is a Consultant Orthopaedic Oncologist working at the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital in Birmingham. He qualified at the Middlesex Hospital in 1976 and worked for Rodney Sweetnam who at the time dealt with most of the bone tumours in London. The only treatment available was amputation and after six months he felt that he had seen enough of these for a lifetime. Four years later he was appointed as a registrar in Birmingham and worked for Rodney Sneath who dealt with the Midlands bone tumours. During that four years treatment had changed with limb salvage becoming common and chemotherapy offering a chance of cure. He was hooked!
He is now the Senior Consultant in one of the largest bone and soft tissue sarcoma units in the world. He has extensive experience of limb salvage surgery for sarcomas and has a special interest in pelvic tumours. He founded the British Sarcoma Group and is Vice President of the European Musculo Skeletal Oncology Society. He is a past chair of the NCRI Sarcoma Group and the Editor of the journal Sarcoma. He has published extensively on both bone and soft tissue sarcomas and his Hunterian Professorship was entitled ‘Improving Outcomes for patients with sarcomas’.
Dr Colin Walker
Dr Colin Walker is a Consultant Radiologist in Birmingham. He contributes to Academic Research into Melanoma in Birmingham. This year he has been part of the group revising the UK Guidelines for the Management of Malignant Melanoma which will be published shortly.