Professor Arnie Purushotham

Professor Arnie Purushotham has been a Consultant Academic Surgeon for 26 years having worked in Glasgow, Cambridge, and London. He is a Professor of Breast Cancer at King’s and Consultant Surgeon at Guy’s and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust. He is also the Director of King’s Health Partners Comprehensive Cancer Centre.

As a scientific researcher, Professor Purushotham’s goal has been to drive high-quality clinical and translational research that directly impacts patients with cancer. Key areas of research are patterns of metastatic spread, novel optical intra-operative imaging, MR Elastography to predict response or resistance to neoadjuvant chemotherapy, window of opportunity trials, prevention, and early detection, cancer in low- and middle-income countries, and cancer outcomes.