Dr Maria Hawkins
- Consultant Clinical Oncologist
- MD
- MRCP
- FRCR
Biography
Dr Maria Hawkins is a Consultant Clinical Oncologist specialising in the treatment of upper gastrointestinal (stomach and oesophagus) and hepatobiliary (pancreas and liver) malignancies, and colorectal (bowel) and skin cancers.
Dr Hawkins completed general medical training in London and specialist training at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital and The Royal Marsden. This was followed by a research fellowship at Princess Margaret Hospital in Toronto, Canada, where she gained expertise in hypofractionated stereotactic liver irradiation, image guided radiotherapy and modelling radiotherapy toxicity.
She undertook further research at The Royal Marsden and The Institute of Cancer Research integrating new technological developments in radiotherapy for gastrointestinal cancers, increasing the accuracy of radiotherapy delivery and sparing toxicity.
Dr Hawkins is an active contributor to international research through peer review journals and conferences. She was awarded the 2008 Dr Karol Sicher Fellowship by The Royal College of Radiologists and the 2009 Sylvia Lawler Prize by the Oncology Section of the Royal Society of Medicine for contributions to research.
She is leading the stereotactic liver irradiation programme for liver malignancies that cannot be treated by surgery. Her current research interests are a combination of novel treatments with radiotherapy, prediction and prevention of normal tissue toxicities, and further refinement of radiotherapy delivery techniques using image guided and adaptive radiotherapy.
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