Professor Deborah Tweddle is an Honorary Consultant in Paediatric and Adolescent Oncology at the Great North Children’s Hospital and Professor of Paediatric Oncology at the Newcastle University Centre of Cancer.
Professor Tweddle has a specific interest in childhood neuroblastoma – biological, translational and clinical – which she has specialised in for over 20 years.
As a clinical academic in paediatric oncology, Professor Tweddle spends half of her time at Newcastle University supervising her research team or undertaking duties related to the Children’s Cancer and Leukaemia group tissue bank, of which she is the Scientific Director.
Her clinical work takes her to the RVI’s Great North Children’s Hospital to see patients with neuroblastoma either on the ward or day unit.
Education
- BSc (Hons), Experimental Immunology and Oncology, Manchester University, 1988;
- MB ChB (Hons), Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery, Manchester University, 1991;
- Member of the Royal College of Physicians/Paediatrics and Child Health (MRCPCH), 1994;
- PhD, Newcastle University, 2002;
- Fellow of the Royal College of Paediatrics & Child Health (FRCPCH), 2005
Career history
- Senior Lecturer and Honorary Consultant in Paediatric and Adolescent Oncology, 2004-2011;
- Lecturer and Honorary Registrar in Paediatric Oncology, 2002-2004;
- Department of Health Clinician Scientist Fellowship, Newcastle University, 2002-2008;
- Specialist Registrar in Paediatrics, Newcastle and North Tyneside Hospitals,1999-2002;
- Research Registrar in Paediatric Oncology, Newcastle University, 1996-1999;
- LRF Fellow in Paediatric Oncology, Newcastle Hospitals 1995-1996;
- SHO and Senior Resident in Paediatrics, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford and Duke University Hospital, North Carolina, USA 1993-1995;
- SHO and PRHO in Medicine and Surgery, Manchester Hospitals, 1991-1992.
Memberships
- Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health;
- United Kingdom Children’s Cancer and leukaemia Group (CCLG);
- British Association for Cancer Research;
- British Medical Association;
- National Cancer Research Institute (NCRI) Children’s Cancer and Leukaemia Clinical Studies Group, Neuroblastoma Subgroup;
- Chair of UK CCLG Neuroblastoma Special Interest Group 2010-15
- Medical Trustee of Neuroblastoma UK
- European Neuroblastoma Group (SIOPEN) & SIOPEN Biology Group
- Innovative Therapies for Childhood Cancer Solid Tumour Committee
