Published 29 January 2009, doi:10.1136/bmj.b272
Cite this as: BMJ 2009;338:b272

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Lifetime Achievement Award shortlist: Professor Patrick Bradley

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Patrick Bradley has devoted his career to improving the management of head and neck cancers, building up one of the busiest services for the condition in the UK during his 26 years working as a head and neck oncological surgeon at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, UK.

Described as "the most influential health and neck surgeon of his generation", he played a key role in developing the specialty and introduced many innovations before they became widely popular, including voice restoration surgery in the mid 1980s and multidisciplinary treatment planning in the late 1980s.

As well as building a good local service for head and neck cancers, Professor Bradley has driven initiatives at a national level, including working as national lead clinician for head and neck cancer, and internationally, serving on the European Laryngological Society.

He has trained a generation of surgeons and is internationally acknowledged as a teacher throughout Europe, . . . [Full text of this article]


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