Dr Garth Funston

I am a GP and Clinical Senior Lecturer in Primary Care Cancer Research at the Wolfson Institute of Population Health. My work spans multiple areas of cancer research, but I have a particular interest in early cancer detection. I have expertise in the analysis of large healthcare datasets, diagnostic test evaluation and the development and validation of diagnostic prediction models.

I currently sit on the Editorial Board of the British Journal of General Practice and the NICE Suspected Cancer Quality Standards Update Committee.

I undertook my clinical training at the University’s of St Andrews and Cambridge followed by clinical academic training posts (Academic Foundation Programme and NIHR Academic Clinical Fellowship) in Manchester. In 2021 I completed a Cancer Research UK funded PhD at the University of Cambridge, which focussed on the detection of ovarian cancer in primary care. I was lead author on the Royal College of General Practitioners Paper of the Year for Clinical Research (2021) and have been awarded the prestigious World Ovarian Cancer Coalition Transformational Research Prize.