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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.

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