Dr Tathagata  Das

Dr Das has been working as Consultant, Clinical Oncology in Weston Park Hospital, Sheffield, since November 2013. He is one of the 35 Oncology Consultants providing world class cancer care to a population of 1.8 million in the South Yorkshire and North Derbyshire region.

Dr Das specialises in the treatment of Lung Cancer and Non-melanoma skin cancers. Till January 2017, he was also treating Urological Malignancies.

He is involved with the development of Stereotactic Ablative Body Radiotherapy (SABR) services in Weston Park Hospital, and is currently the Chair of the SABR MDT at Weston Park Hospital and the MDT discusses the suitability for SABR of all patients referred from the South Yorkshire and North Derbyshire region.

Dr Das is the Lung Cancer group Lead in the trust and has been actively involved in the development of the Lung Cancer services in the trust. As the Lung group lead, he is responsible for various management responsibilities like chairing the Lung Research group meeting once every quarter; making applications to the Drugs and Therapeautic committee for approval of new drugs; ensuring that the Lung treatment protocols are reviewed and up to date; Audit our prescribing practice to ensure that we comply with the standards laid out via NICE Technical Appraisals.

Dr Das is the Audit Lead for the Oncology Directorate and in this capacity ensure that National and Local Clinical Audits and Service Improvement projects are conducted and completed in a timely manner.

He has been the Oncology Undergraduate Lead for the Sheffield Teaching Hospitals Trust and he manages the Oncology attachments of the Undergraduate medical Students of Sheffield University. 

As a consultant, Dr Das is actively involved in the training of doctors. He is the Clinical and Educational supervisor for junior doctors in Foundation year and Specialist Registrar Training.

Dr Das has recently been involved in developing the service of Ultrasound guided fiducial marker insertion in Prostate cancer patients. he was involved in the procurement of the Ultrasound scanner through Weston Park cancer Charity funding and then went to Clatterbridge Cancer Centre to learn fiducial marker insertion.

Dr Das has been actively involved in teaching undergraduate Medical Students and registrars (he teaches the FRCR part 1 course in Leeds and the FRCR part 2 course run in Weston Park Hospital.

Dr Das has been a Royal College of Radiologist Tutor (since July 2018) for the trust and has played an active role in ensuring that the specialty trainees have the best possible training in the trust and make sure that the training is of a high standard.