Dr Kieran Foley
Specialty Lead for Imaging
Health and Care Research Wales Faculty award:
Award: NHS Research Time Award (2019 - 2023)
Project title: To develop Stereotactic Ablative Body Radiotherapy (SABR) in Wales
Biography
Dr Kieran Foley is a Consultant Radiologist with interests in gastrointestinal imaging, oncology and research. He works between the Royal Glamorgan Hospital, Velindre Cancer Centre and the National Imaging Academy of Wales, and is also Clinical Senior Lecturer in the Division of Cancer & Genetics at Cardiff University.
He completed a PhD during a Wales Clinical Academic Training Fellowship at Cardiff University. His thesis focussed on prognostic variables derived from staging investigations in oesophageal cancer.
Dr Foley has subsequently received several research grants including a Research Time Award from Health and Care Research Wales and is co-Chief Investigator of a NIHR-funded multi-centre prospective observational study investigating the use of endoscopic ultrasound in oesophageal cancer.
He has also received further grant funding from the Royal College of Radiologists and Cancer Research Wales, the latter funding a feasibility study using the state-of-the-art Siemens Connectom MRI scanner at Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre (CUBRIC) to scan men with prostate cancer, which was the first time in the world this MRI machine had been used for this purpose.
His other research roles include past Research Officer for the British Society of Gastrointestinal and Abdominal Radiology (BSGAR), Faculty member of the European Society of Gastrointestinal and Abdominal Radiology (ESGAR), lead radiologist on national oesophageal cancer clinical trials, and is a trial management group member for several other studies.
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Health and Care Research Wales announces recipients of 2019-20 funding awards worth over £5 million