Connie Yip MBChB, MRCP, FRCR, PhD

Dr Connie Yip is a Senior Consultant Radiation Oncologist with interests in gastrointestinal and thoracic malignancies. She graduated from the University of Dundee, UK with MBChB (Hons) and various medical awards in 2003. She subsequently completed her general medical training in Edinburgh and completed MRCP in 2006. She began her Radiation Oncology training at the National Cancer Centre Singapore and was awarded a 2-year HMDP fellowship from the Singapore Ministry of Health to pursue further training at Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital, London in 2011. She attained FRCR in Clinical Oncology in 2011. Following this, she was awarded the Clinical Research Fellowship funded by Cancer Research UK and the NMRC Research Training Fellowship by the National Medical Research Council (Singapore) to pursue a PhD at King's College London in 2013. Her thesis entitled 'Imaging tumor heterogeneity and improving treatment response assessment in oesophageal cancer' was awarded the Cancer Research UK Pontecorvo Prize for Best Ph.D. Thesis in 2018. Her main research interests are (i) to evaluate novel ways to combine radiation therapy with systemic/immunotherapy, (ii) the evaluation of downstream radiation-mediated immune and systemic responses, and (iii) the use of functional imaging to improve radiation treatment and response assessment in thoracic and gastrointestinal cancers.