Modern Healthcare - Technological Dream or Economic Nightmare?
Professor Karol Sikora, from Cancer Partners UK, recently spoke at the Building Better Businesses in Healthcare Conference in London. His presentation was titled: Modern Healthcare - Technological Dream or Economic Nightmare? Professor Sikora talks about the past, present and future of technology and its role in the UK health care system.
The conference was organized by Harley Street Direct.
Karol Sikora
Karol is Professor of Cancer Medicine and honorary Consultant Oncologist at Imperial College School of Medicine, Hammersmith Hospital, London where he was Clinical Director of Cancer Services for 12 years. He is Scientific Director of Medical Solutions PLC, Britain’s leading cancer diagnostic company and Special Adviser to HCA International in the creation of the London Cancer Group - the largest UK cancer network outside the NHS in HCA’s six major London private hospitals.
This includes the construction of a major new international cancer centre for care, teaching and research in London at the Harley St. Clinic with joint ventures with 5 major NHS Cancer Centres. He has recently been appointed Dean of Britain’s first independent Medical School at the Universities of Brunel and Buckingham.
He studied medical science and biochemistry at Cambridge, where he obtained a double first. After clinical training he became a house physician at The Middlesex Hospital and registrar in oncology at St Bartholomew’s Hospital.
He then became a research student at the MRC Laboratory for Molecular Biology in Cambridge working with Nobel Prize winner, Dr. Sydney Brenner. He obtained his PhD and then spent a year as a clinical fellow at Stanford University, California before returning to direct the Ludwig Institute in Cambridge. He has been Clinical Director for Cancer Services at Hammersmith for 12 years and established a major cancer research laboratory there funded by the Imperial Cancer Research Fund.
He became Deputy Director (Clinical Research) of the ICRF. From 1997 to 1999 he was Chief of the WHO Cancer Programme based in Lyon and from 1999 to 2002, Vice President, Global Clinical Research (Oncology) at Pharmacia Corporation.
Karol has published over 300 papers and written or edited 19 books including Treatment of Cancer - the standard British postgraduate textbook now going to its fifth edition. He is on the editorial board of several journals and is the founding editor of Gene Therapy and Cancer Strategy. He is a former member of the UK Health Department’s Expert Advisory Group on Cancer (the Calman-Hine Committee), the Committee on Safety of Medicines and remains an adviser to the WHO Cancer Programme.
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