Professor Chrissie Thirlwell was appointed as Head of the Bristol Medical School in 2023, prior to this she was the Associate Dean of the University of Exeter Medical School and Clinical Director of the South West Genomic Medicine Service Alliance. Prof Thirlwell is Professor of Cancer Genomics and Clinical Academic Oncologist at the University of Bristol Medical School. She has an international reputation for research into and on the management of neuroendocrine tumours and integrated genomic analyses of cancer. She is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and was the NIHR Clinical Academic Training Lead for Oncology at UCL and was the Training and Development lead for the NIHR Exeter Biomedical Research Centre prior to moving to Bristol.