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Dr Mark Churn

Dr Mark Churn
Mark
Churn
MB, CHB, MRCP(UK), FRCR, Clinical oncologist

Languages spoken

English

Expert in

Bowel, breast and gastrointestinal.

Overview

Centres

Birmingham
Birmingham

Little Aston Hall Drive, Sutton Coldfield, B74 3BF

52.60208, -1.87412
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Dr Churn is a graduate of the University of Edinburgh who subsequently trained in General Medicine to Registrar level in the UK and New Zealand before starting as a Specialist Registrar in Oncology at Clatterbridge Centre for Oncology on the Wirral in 1994.

After a period of post-FRCR training at Christie Hospital, Manchester he was appointed as Consultant Clinical Oncologist at New Cross Hospital, Wolverhampton in 2000 with visiting sessions at Kidderminster Hospital specialising in breast and colorectal cancers, such as bowel cancer.

In November 2014, he joined the team of consultant oncologists at the new Worcestershire Oncology Centre and will be making a significant contribution to the development of services there, as well as continuing to hold sessions at Kidderminster Treatment Centre. He has recently been appointed Lead in colorectal cancer for the West Midlands section of the new National Institute for Health Research Clinical Research Network.

Career positions

Current position(s)
  • Worcester NHS Trust
  • Lead in colorectal cancer for the West Midlands section of the new National Institute for Health Research Clinical Research Network.
Previous position(s)
  • Consultant Clinical Oncologist at New Cross Hospital, Wolverhampton
  • Specialist Registrar in Oncology, Clatterbridge Centre for Oncology

Education

Universities
  • University of Edinburgh 
  • General Medicine to Registrar level in the UK and New Zealand 
Fellowship
  • Neuroradiology at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford

Expertise and interests

Interests
  • Radiotherapy and chemotherapy for breast and colorectal cancer.

Professional associations

  • British Medical Association
  • Royal College of Radiologists