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AHP rep

 Justin Roe  AHP rep

 1.       Consultant/ Joint Head – Department of Speech and Language Therapy:   The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust

 2.       Clinical Service Lead (Airways/ Complex ENT):  Imperial College Healthcare   NHS Trust

 3.       NIHR Imperial BRC/ Imperial Health Charity Post-Doctoral Fellow:   Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London

Justin is a clinical-academic and service lead, specialising in dysphagia in benign and malignant head and neck disorders. He is the Clinical Service Lead at the National Centre for Airway Reconstruction/ ENT Service at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and Consultant Speech and Language Therapist/ Joint Head of Service at the Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust. His academic base is at the Department of Surgery and Cancer at Imperial College London. 

Justin completed his first degree, majoring in psychology, in 1993. He qualified as a speech and language therapist in 1999 from City University, London. He was awarded his MSc in dysphagia research with distinction from Newcastle University in 2015 and his PhD from the Institute of Cancer Research in 2013.

In 2019, Justin commenced a post-doctoral research fellowship awarded by the Imperial Health Charity and Imperial NIHR Biomedical Research Centre. He has published a number of peer-reviewed papers on head and neck cancer, lung cancer, palliative care, airway stenosis, co-design and ethics and spoken at scientific meetings and conferences internationally. Justin is a Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists (RCSLT) Specialist Advisor for head and neck cancer and palliative care. In 2019, he was elected as a member of the Council of the British Association of Head and Neck Oncologists. He was made a Fellow of the RCSLT in 2018.