Dr Campbell Hewson has been a Consultant Paediatric Oncologist at the Great North Children’s Hospital in Newcastle upon Tyne since 2003. He specialises in Solid Tumours, Early Phase Trials and Palliative care.

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.

Consultant Paediatric Oncologist, Great North Children’s Hospital in Newcastle upon Tyne