Mr Giles Davies Bsc. MD FRCS

Mr Giles Davies is the Director of Surgery and a Breast Cancer Surgeon in a large London Hospital, an International Centre of Excellence for Breast Cancer Care.

Mr Giles Davies MB BS BSc. MD FRCS (Gen.Surg.) was educated at Harrow school and subsequently trained at St Georges Hospital Medical school where he obtained the Wiliam Devitt-Pendulbury exhibition for outstanding achievement in part B MB BS.

He graduated with an intercalated BSc with honours and undertook basic surgical training at the Royal London Hospital and then specialist surgical training in the South West Thames Specialist Registrar Rotation. During this training Mr Davies undertook a two-year period of research at the Royal Marsden Hospital where he was awarded his MD Thesis.

His research on the prevention of breast cancer with COX-2 inhibitors has been widely published and he has presented research at international meetings in Australia, Japan and the USA. In 2006 he spent an international Oncoplastic Fellowship year at the Royal Adelaide Hospital in Australia as the Senior Registrar and Oncoplastic Fellow where he was trained in Oncoplastic surgical techniques of the breast.

Mr. Davies also alongside Professor Ashrafi coordinates a research team based at Kingston University where there is now a thriving research group of 8 researchers investigating the link between the virus that causes cervical cancer Human Papillomavirus (HPV) and breast cancer. Mr Davies has recently presented in Qatar the first ever evidence of the presence of HPV in fresh breast cancer tissue and is currently supervising 2 PhD students researching this topic further.