Professor Robert Thomas MbChB MD FRCR is a consultant in oncology at Addenbrook’s and also at Bedford Hospital.
Robert Thomas has many jobs and titles, such as Consultant Oncologist at the Primrose Oncology Unit, Bedford and Addenbrooke’s, Hospitals. A visiting professor of Biological and Exercise Science at Coventry University. A clinical teacher at Cambridge University. A visiting Professor at the University of Bedfordshire.
Professor Robert Thomas is a practicing consultant and cancer specialist with over 30 years’ experience in patient care. After a formal training at the Royal Marsden, the National Hospital for Neurology, the Royal Free and Middlesex Hospitals London, he now leads chemotherapy services at the Primrose Oncology & Research Unit, Bedford Hospital and treats patients with radiotherapy at Addenbrook’s; he is a Senior Clinical Tutor at Cambridge University.
A former Pfizer oncologist of the Year, he also scored the highest grade "outstanding clinical teacher" from every student for three years running in his role of teaching students in lectures and at the bedside. He also lectures in Translational Medicine at Cranfield University.
Thomas designed the UK Government’s first rehabilitation programme for cancer patients and gives regular lectures on the evidence for self-help lifestyle strategies after cancer.