Theme: outstanding contribution to the maintenance and/or recovery of cancer services during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Winner: Miss Theofano Tikka, MSc, FRCS (ORL-HNS) Recently completed ENT Registrar training (West of Scotland Deanery) PhD candidate (Strathclyde University) Current post-CCT fellow at the Royal Marsden Hospital, London

The Scottish Cancer Foundation Prize and Forrest/Evans Medal for 2022 were awarded to Theofano Tikka, an ENT trainee, for her work on a remote triage tool for patients with symptoms suggestive of head and neck cancer.  This was particularly useful during the COVID-19 pandemic when face to face consultations were difficult and hazardous.  The prize and medal were collected on Dr Tikka’s behalf by her PhD supervisor, Professor Anja Lowit.

photo credit to Steve Welsh