Louise Hanna
MA (Cantab), BM BCh (Oxon), MRCP, FRCR
Medicine
Oncology
Cardiff, Wales
Dr. Louise Hanna graduated from Cambridge and Oxford Universities before undertaking a medical rotation based at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge. She trained in clinical oncology at the Velindre Cancer Centre in Cardiff and became a consultant in 2001, specializing in gynecological and lung cancer and joining the FRCR course faculty.
Dr. Hanna has a keen interest in medical education and she currently sits on the Royal College of Radiologists Specialty Training Board as the UK clinical lead for clinical oncology recruitment. She is the lead editor of the textbook Practical Clinical Oncology (Cambridge University Press) which is now in its second edition. Dr. Hanna is also an Associate Dean in the training quality unit in the newly established Special Health Authority, Health Education and Improvement Wales. She is a past chair of the Wales Specialty Training Committee for Oncology the Royal College of Radiologists Specialty Training Advisory Committee and the Wales Standing Committee.
In addition to her training role, Dr. Hanna is chair of the Wales Cancer Network Gynaecological Cancer Site Group and a member of the International Cancer Benchmarking Partnership Clinical Committee, the British Gynaecological Cancer Society, and CTRad.
