Dr Quentin Campbell-Hewson is a Consultant Paediatric Oncologist specialising in solid tumour oncology, sarcomas, early phase trials and palliative care at the Great North Children’s Hospital.
Dr Campbell-Hewson qualified as a doctor from Edinburgh in 1988 and trained as a paediatrician in Leeds, Manchester, Brisbane and Newcastle. He has been a consultant in Paediatric Oncology in Newcastle since 2003.
As the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health College Tutor for Newcastle, Dr Campbell-Hewson is responsible for the training of junior doctors in children’s services here.
As a strong advocate for new therapies he jointly established a Northern Network for Children’s Cancer Early Phase trials –the ”INCLuDE” network- which encompasses Northern England, Scotland and Northern Ireland. This network has been the template for the networks which now cover the whole UK.
He is active as a member of the UK Experimental Medicines Cancer Group Paediatric Network Strategy group and the European Innovative Therapies for Children’s Cancer consortium.
He is the Specialty Group lead for Children’s Research NIHR CRN North east and North Cumbria, leads children’s clinical research for Newcastle upon Tyne as well as Children’s Cancer Theme lead for the NIHR CYPMed Tech Cooperative.
He is Principal Investigator for a number of late and early phase studies for sarcomas and a member of the NCRI Sarcoma clinical Study group.
