Qualifications: MD PhD FRCP(Edin)
| Professor Bertelli is a Consultant Medical Oncologist at University Hospitals Sussex NHS Trust and Honorary Clinical Professor at Brighton and Sussex Medical School. He has more than three decades of experience in the treatment of breast cancer and a strong interest in research, which has resulted in more than 100 publications and a PhD from the University of Maastricht. He first qualified in 1986 as MD in Genoa, Italy, specialised in Medical Oncology and Internal Medicine and worked as a consultant in the Genoa Cancer Institute and in Piedmont, before moving to the UK in 2002. He was a Consultant and Honorary Senior Lecturer at Singleton Hospital in Swansea, where he served as Clinical Lead of the South West Wales Cancer Research Network, and member of the National Cancer Research Institute Breast Cancer Trials Group. In 2018 he joined the Sussex Cancer Centre in Brighton; he is Principal Investigator for several breast cancer clinical trials conducted at Brighton’s Clinical Research Facility. He is a member of ASCO (American Society of Clinical Oncology), ESMO (European Society of Medical Oncology), UKBCG (UK Breast Cancer Group) and BMA (British Medical Association). |