Meet the team
Meet the team at University Hospitals Dorset - Bournemouth Hospital
Lead clinician - Miss Rachana Dwivedi
Miss Dwivedi works alongside the Poole Dorset Cancer Centre. Her role is to manage women who are referred to secondary care for suspected gynaecological cancer. She manages their diagnostic pathway including treatment and follow up. She has dedicated diagnostic clinics (post-menopausal bleeding, colposcopy and gynaecology outpatient department with fast track referrals) . She attends weekly Multi-Disciplinary Meetings and works closely with cancer centres.
Lead cancer nurse specialist - CNS Mary Brinsdon (Gynaecology Oncology Clinical Nurse Specialist)
Mary has been in post for 7 years. She is the CNS responsible for all co-ordination of all care given to women diagnosed with a gynaecological cancer. This involves the patient's treatment pathway, user issues and provision of written information. Mary also runs a monthly nurse led endometrial cancer follow up clinic.
Mary has attended the Advanced Communication Skills course, Psychological, Gynaecological Cancer and Chemotherapy study days. She has completed a Gynaecology cancer module at the Marsden hospital as well.
Consultants working within gynaecology oncology diagnostic & treatment team:
Gynaecology consultants
Rachana Dwivedi
Alex Taylor
Padma Eedeparali
Mangla Dubey
Gynaecology oncologist consultants
Anni Inamaa
Jonathon Lipiatt
Ianis Biliatis
All three oncology consultants are based at Poole Hospital. If you need an operation at Poole hospital your surgeon will be one of these three consultants and you will see one of them prior to your operation. Anni Inamaa is the Gynaecology oncology consultant who does a weekly clinic at the Royal Bournemouth Hospital.
Radiology specialist consultants
Sonya Snape is the named consultant radiologist at RBH. She takes the lead in imaging for all gynaecological cancers and attends the weekly multi-disciplinary team meeting.
Lead histopathologist consultant
Shereen Hayder
Palliative lead consultant
Megan Haworth
Medical oncologist consultant
Dr Joanne Parkinson
Nurse support team
Senior nurse colposcopist/ cervical screening provider lead
Stephanie Freeman
Stephanie is a BSCCP accredited Colposcopist working in the Colposcopy department of the Jigsaw building. Her role as CSPL involves liaising with external Quality Assurance teams to ensure that the cervical screening programme provided by Royal Bournemouth.
Gynaecology nurse practitioner
Georgie Morrissey (who covers when CNS Mary Brinsdon is off)
CNS administrator
Mrs J Foy
Cancer support worker
Suzanne Bannister. Suzanne Bannister is the Gynaecology Cancer Support Worker and her main role is to conduct holistic needs assessments with patients which result in planning, managing or implementing personalised care and support planning elements for people living with cancer.
