Yvonne Summers

Dr Summers studied undergraduate medicine at the University of St Andrews and the University of Manchester, graduating in 1993 and subsequently completed higher specialist training in Medical Oncology at the Christie Hospital, Manchester between 1997 and 2004. During this period she was awarded a doctorate for research in the field of stem cell biology.

In 2004 she commenced her first post as consultant medical oncologist in the Northern Ireland Cancer Centre, Belfast, where she concentrated her efforts on establishing a medical oncology service for lung cancer patients and introducing clinical trial research.

She returned to Manchester in 2009, where she specialises in thoracic oncology, was previously Clinical Director of Medical Oncology and is now Deputy Medical Director at the Christie Hospital.

She is active in clinical research with interest drug development for thoracic cancer and has experience as UK chief investigator and principal investigator in commercial and academic clinical studies. She influences lung cancer education, research & treatment through work with the British Thoracic Oncology Group (BTOG), NHS England’s lung cancer clinical expert group (CEG) and as a clinical expert for NICE technology appraisals.