Roger Wheelwright

Advanced Nurse Practitioner - MSc, PG Dip, PGCE (FE), MISM, RN

Advanced Nurse Practitioner for Prostate Cancer, previous posts include Prostate CNS & Senior Research Nurse in Oncology at the Dorset Cancer Centre where we set-up and ran nurse led clinics for patients with prostate cancer. After gaining my research MSc from the University of Bristol in 2008 I moved to Southampton as Senior Nurse Manager at the Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Facility. Following this, worked on trials at Oxford University and then University of Southampton, including work on developing an EORTC QoL Module for Elderly Patients with Cancer. Specialist interests include prostate cancer, patient quality of life, collaborative practice within the MDT, education of patients, public and health care staff, and living beyond cancer, and enabling carers.