Miss Joanna Franks is a Consultant Breast and Oncoplastic Surgeon. She practises on the NHS at University College London Hospital in central London and sees private patients at The Wellington Hospital in St John’s Wood and their Diagnostic and Outpatient Centre in Golders Green.
Her area of expertise is the assessment and management of all conditions relating to the breast. This will include both benign and malignant breast disease. Her particular interests are:
Miss Franks qualified from Imperial College with honours. She took a year out to complete research, funded by the Medical Research Council, which resulted in a first class BSc in pathology with basic medical science. During her Higher Surgical Training she had a National Training Number with the London Deanery and spent the latter part of her training in the Oncoplastic Breast Unit and Macmillan Cancer Centre at UCLH.
As a member of the breast team at UCLH she regularly sees and treats patients who present to the symptomatic clinic as well as those who have been recalled through the NHS breast screening programme or come from a high-risk family background.
Miss Franks has an interest in assessment and training and completed an MSc in Medical Education. She standard-sets for University College London and the Royal Free Hospital Medical School and is a regular examiner. In addition she works with the General Medical Council item-writing and standard- setting as part of Fitness to Practice and is one of their Medical Assessors.
Her outside interests include spending time with her family, skiing and playing bridge.
Her area of expertise is the assessment and management of all conditions relating to the breast. This will include both benign and malignant breast disease. Her particular interests are:
- Detection of early breast cancers
- Oncoplastic breast conservation
- Neo-adjuvant strategies
- Mastectomy with immediate reconstruction and symmetrisation
- Discussing family history
- Risk reduction,
- Breast screening.
Miss Franks qualified from Imperial College with honours. She took a year out to complete research, funded by the Medical Research Council, which resulted in a first class BSc in pathology with basic medical science. During her Higher Surgical Training she had a National Training Number with the London Deanery and spent the latter part of her training in the Oncoplastic Breast Unit and Macmillan Cancer Centre at UCLH.
As a member of the breast team at UCLH she regularly sees and treats patients who present to the symptomatic clinic as well as those who have been recalled through the NHS breast screening programme or come from a high-risk family background.
Miss Franks has an interest in assessment and training and completed an MSc in Medical Education. She standard-sets for University College London and the Royal Free Hospital Medical School and is a regular examiner. In addition she works with the General Medical Council item-writing and standard- setting as part of Fitness to Practice and is one of their Medical Assessors.
Her outside interests include spending time with her family, skiing and playing bridge.
Miss Jenny Gattuso is a Consultant Oncoplastic Breast Surgeon at the Macmillan Cancer Centre at University College London Hospital for the NHS. She sees private patients at The Wellington Hospital in London, next to Lord's Cricket Ground. Her area of expertise include:
Miss Gattuso initially studied at Cambridge University (MA) and completed her MBBS at the Middlesex Hospital, University of London. She combined studying for her FRCS with 18 months of research as a Bernard Sunley Fellow at the Royal College of Surgeons of England (MPhil, Arris and Gale lectureship). This was followed by an MD at the University of London. She won the Cutlers Award which enabled her to visit breast cancer centres in Milan and Paris to complement her UK training.
She is the lead clinician for a multi-disciplinary team at UCLH and cares for patients who present via the NHS Breast Screening Service, attend diagnostic/ symptomatic clinics, and patients under family history clinics. She is experienced in and is happy to provide second opinions.
Miss Gattuso is a regular reviewer for the European Journal of Surgical Oncology.
Her outside interests include competing at national level in dressage and watching football. She has an extensive shoe collection which her other hobbies prevent her from wearing as often as she would like!
- Management of both benign breast disease and breast cancer
- Looking after high risk family history patients
- Use of oncoplastic techniques in breast conservation
- Use of neoadjuvant treatments to achieve breast conservation
- Symmetrisation surgery
- Immediate and delayed breast reconstruction.
Miss Gattuso initially studied at Cambridge University (MA) and completed her MBBS at the Middlesex Hospital, University of London. She combined studying for her FRCS with 18 months of research as a Bernard Sunley Fellow at the Royal College of Surgeons of England (MPhil, Arris and Gale lectureship). This was followed by an MD at the University of London. She won the Cutlers Award which enabled her to visit breast cancer centres in Milan and Paris to complement her UK training.
She is the lead clinician for a multi-disciplinary team at UCLH and cares for patients who present via the NHS Breast Screening Service, attend diagnostic/ symptomatic clinics, and patients under family history clinics. She is experienced in and is happy to provide second opinions.
Miss Gattuso is a regular reviewer for the European Journal of Surgical Oncology.
Her outside interests include competing at national level in dressage and watching football. She has an extensive shoe collection which her other hobbies prevent her from wearing as often as she would like!
