Published 29 January 2009, doi:10.1136/bmj.b272
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Lifetime Achievement Award shortlist: Professor Patrick Bradley

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, North America, Australia, and India. He has published more than 200 papers, and in 2007-8 served as the Hunterian Professor for the Royal College of Surgeons, in addition to being on the editorial board of several journals. He has also contributed in the area of management, having served as clinical director of his trust for two terms and worked with the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence. He received an MBA from Nottingham University Business School in 2000.

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