Kevin Franks MBChB, MRCP, FRCR

Kevin Franks (MBChB, MRCP, FRCR) is Consultant Clinical Oncologist at St James’s Institute of Oncology (SJIO), Leeds Cancer Centre, Leeds Teaching Hospital, UK. Dr Franks trained as clinical oncologist in Leeds and completed a two-year clinical research fellow in lung technical radiotherapy at Princess Margaret Hospital under the supervision of Professor Andrea Bezjak and David Jaffray (2005-2007). He was appointed as consultant in Leeds in 2009 and as the clinical Lead for Lung Stereotactic Ablative Radiotherapy (SABR) he has established a large lung SABR program treating more than 700 patients since 2009.

In the UK, Dr Franks is a founding member of the UK SABR Consortium and is a member of the National Clinical Research Institute Clinical and Translational Radiotherapy Research Group (work stream 4). He was the co-chair of the National Cancer Action Team (NCAT) Image-guided Radiotherapy working group, which produced national guidelines on IGRT use in 2012 and is a member of the British Thoracic Society working group, which has produced guidelines for the investigation and management of pulmonary nodules (2013-2014).