Prof Rod Skinner

Professor Rod Skinner recently retired as Consultant in Paediatric and Adolescent Oncology/BMT at the Great North Children’s Hospital, Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom – a post he held since January 1996. He is also an Honorary Professor of Childhood Cancer at Newcastle University, UK.

Qualified in Birmingham in 1983, Professor Skinner trained initially in general paediatrics and then in paediatric haematology/oncology in Newcastle and in BMT at Minneapolis, USA. He has a longstanding interest in late effects of treatment for childhood cancer, long-term follow-up care and survivorship. He also obtained a PhD based on chemotherapy-related nephrotoxicity.

Professor Skinner has been a member of the Children & Young People’s Cancer Association (CCLG) Late Effects Group since 1992 (chair 2016-21). He was also one of the three instigators and founding members in 2008 of PanCare (Pan-European Network for Care of Survivors after Childhood and Adolescent Cancer), and has been a member of the Core Group of the International Late Effects of Childhood Cancer Guideline Harmonization Group since 2010.