Bob Phillips

Professor of Paediatrics and Evidence Synthesis at the Centre

for Reviews and Disseminiation at the University of York and Hull/York

Medical School, and an Honorary Consultant in Paediatric / Teenage-Young

Adult Oncology at Leeds Children's Hospital.



He is also the Director of Candlelighters Supportive Care Research

Centre, where his main areas of work are in the development of

supportive care for children with cancer, individual participant data

(IPD) meta-analysis, and the development of skills in appraisal and

translation of clinical research in practice.



Bob was the Clinical Lead for the UK NICE Guideline on the management of

neutropenic sepsis, as well as international guidelines on the topic. In

addition to the work in febrile neutropenia, he has undertaken work on

interventions to ameliorate the side-effects of cancer treatments in

childhood including the management of chemotherapy-induced nausea and

vomiting, constipation, nutritional support, nephropathy and mucositis.