Doctor Gerard Walls

Gerard is a Senior Lecturer and Honorary Consultant in Clinical Oncology at Queen's University Belfast and the Northern Ireland Cancer Centre. Clinically, Gerard focuses on radiotherapy and systemic therapy for all stages of lung cancer. Through his research Gerard hopes to improve the prognosis of lung cancer by advancing how patients are selected and optimised for treatment, especially regarding cardiovascular health. Gerard completed his PhD in radiation cardiotoxicity in lung cancer in 2022, spanning translational mouse models, spatial transcriptomics and clinical physics analyses. In 2023 he was a Visiting Fellow at Washington University in St Louis where he joined the Bergom Labortory for 3 months to work on cardiac SABR and cardiotoxicity studies – via a Fulbright Scholarship.