Mr Daniel Leff
Breast Health
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Qualifications
MBBS FRCS PhD MS (Hons)
Special Interests
Breast assessment, Benign breast disease, Breast screening, Breast cancer, Oncoplastic breast conservation, Partial breast reconstruction, Breast reconstruction, Hereditary breast cancer, Breast surgery
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Specialist Treatments
Treatments offered at King Edward VII's Hospital include, but are not limited to:
- Mastectomy
- Core Biopsy
- Breast Lump Excision
- Wide Local Excision
- Therapeutic Mammoplasty
- Implant Based Breast Reconstruction
- Sentinel Node Biopsy
- Axillary Node Clearance
Professional Biography
Daniel is a Consultant in Oncoplastic Breast Surgery at King Edward VII's Hospital and is also working within the breast unit at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. {{ label }}
He trained at several centres of excellence in breast cancer and reconstructive breast surgery, including the Imperial Breast Unit and the Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust.
Daniel was competitively selected for a National Training Fellowship (one of only nine such posts in the UK) and completed advanced oncoplastic breast surgery training at the St Andrews Centre for Plastic Surgery and Breast Unit in Chelmsford.
Daniel won the Ronald Raven Prize Travelling Fellowship to learn from international experts in breast cancer and reconstructive surgery at the MD Anderson Cancer Center, the forefront of cancer care in the USA.
Daniel was awarded the prestigious ‘Issac Gukas Medal’ for outstanding achievement in his Masters’ degree in Oncoplastic Breast Surgery.
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COVID-19 Specific Projects / Groups
I am a contributor to the national B-MAP-C study aiming to map changes to surgical treatments of breast cancer during the COVID-19 pandemic and protocol for safe re-introduction and recovery of complex breast reconstructive services.
Awards
Daniel’s research has won national and international recognition, including the:
- Hounsfield Prize
- British Journal of Surgery Prize (ABS)
- Sir Pat Forrest Award (BBG)
- Parasuraman Award
- Athanasiou Medal (ABME)
- and nominations for the Patey Prize (SARS) and the young scientist award at MICCAI.
He has attracted funding from Industry (Waters Corp, Hitachi Medical Corp), the Academy of Medical Sciences and Wellcome Trust (AMS), Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), Association of Breast Surgery and Cancer Research UK (CRUK). He has delivered several keynote named lectures around the world, including the McGuire Lecture in surgical oncology (Queens University, Kingston, Canada).
Memberships
I am a member of the Association of Breast Surgeons and American Society of Breast Surgeons.
Training Positions
I am the Lead for the National Oncoplastic Training Interface Fellowship (Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust).
Cutting Edge Technologies
I have developed novel systems and technologies to improve the diagnosis or surgical management of breast cancer.
I am Co-lead investigator on the Cancer Research UK-funded ‘REI-EXCISE’ trial, which seeks to validate a mass-spectrometry based intelligent knife – or ‘iKnife’ – to improve the precision of breast conserving surgery, reduce re-operative intervention, and enhance quality of life.
I also lead a UK-wide team working on a CRUK-EPSRC funded project ‘MAMMOBOT’, to design a flexible growing ductoscopic robot for early breast cancer detection. I Co-Chair the ‘Precision Therapy’ theme of Imperial’s CRUK Centre and represent cancer surgery for the Imperial Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre.
Publications
I have published over 100 scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals on subjects relating to the application of surgical technologies, sensing and robotics to improve cancer surgery.
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