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Toral Gathani is an Associate Professor in the Cancer Epidemiology Unit (CEU) at Oxford Population Health. She is a Consultant Breast Surgeon at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, and the clinical lead for Thames Valley Cancer Alliance Clinical Advisory Group for breast cancer. She was appointed Senior Research Fellow at Green Templeton College in 2019. 

Her main research interests are in the intersection of ethnicity and breast cancer, the role of health systems in early cancer detection and diagnosis, and of breast cancer as a global health challenge. 

She is the Principal Investigator for a Cancer Research UK funded project on the Associations of Ethnicity and Breast Cancer. The Royal College of Surgeons of England awarded her a prestigious Hunterian Lecture, and courtesy title of Hunterian Professor 2022, for her work in this area. She is the Chief Investigator of the AgeX Trial assessing the benefits and risks of extending the age range for routine screening invitations.

Nationally, she is the co-chair for the Research and Innovation Development Advisory Committee (RIDAC) for the NHS Breast Screening Programme in England. She is a member of the UK Breast Cancer Clinical Studies Group, the Academic and Research Committee for the Association of Breast Surgery, and the Audit Advisory Committee for the National Audit of Primary Breast Cancer.  

Toral has spent time working in India in a research and clinical capacity, and is a past recipient of a British Medical Association Humanitarian Award for public health related work in Assam, India. She is a faculty member of the Kenya UK Breast Cancer Alliance. 

She studied Medicine at the University of St Andrews and Guy’s and St Thomas’ Medical School graduating in 1999 with Honours. She undertook her surgical training in London and at the Nottingham Breast Institute. Toral was a research fellow in the Cancer Epidemiology Unit at Oxford in 2003-2006 where she undertook the research for her MD thesis.