Miss Jo Cresswell
Consultant Urological Surgeon, South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Vice-President, British Association of Urological Surgeons, UK.
Speaker's biography
Miss Jo Cresswell is a consultant urological surgeon, and until recently a clinical director at James Cook University Hospital, South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in Middlesbrough. The department has 12 consultant urologists, 6 urologists in training and is a regional centre for urological cancer.
Miss Cresswell graduated in medicine from the University of Newcastle in UK and was awarded a PhD in bladder cancer immunology in 2002. Her clinical work focuses on the management of bladder cancer, with expertise in the management of all stages of disease including intravesical therapies, endoscopic management and radical cystectomy (open and robotic).
Miss Cresswell is a vice-president of British Association of Urological Surgeons (BAUS) and was previously a chair of the BAUS section of oncology. She is a member of the Specialty Advisory Committee (SAC) for urology and previously training programme director for urology in the North of England.
She is a reviewer for several international journals, conferences and grant funding bodies, and has contributed to numerous bladder cancer clinical trials as principal investigator and member of trial management groups.