Ann Barrett

Who is Ann Barrett?

Ann Barrett OBE is Emeritus Professor of Oncology in the University of East Anglia, England, and formerly deputy dean of the School of Medicine and lead clinician for oncology at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital NHS Trust. She was awarded an OBE in 2010 for services to medicine. She is also a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland

Professor Barrett was an undergraduate at St Bartholomew's Hospital in London and did her postgraduate training at University College Hospital, the Middlesex Hospital, and the Westminster Hospital. Following that she spent a year in Paris at the Fondation Curie and l’Institut Gustav Roussy before returning to the Royal Marsden Hospital for ten years, first as lecturer, and then senior lecturer and consultant with a particular interest in paediatric oncology and cancer in young people. This was the time of the earliest bone marrow transplantation work, and she produced the first UK technique for whole body irradiation.