Dr Anne Parker
Anne Parker is senior medical editor at Macmillan for information about blood cancers.
Anne's background
Anne Parker is senior medical editor at Macmillan for information about blood (haematological) cancers. She did her medical training at the University of Bristol and then went on to specialise in haematology. She worked as a trainee haematologist at centres in Glasgow, Nottingham, Leicester and Northampton before becoming a Consultant Haematologist in 1999.
She has treated people with all blood cancers but now has a particular interest in bone marrow transplant and infection. She is a member of British Society for Haematology (BSH) and the American Society of Haematology. She is active in research into infection, transplants, and graft versus host disease. She was a member and Chair of the BSH guidelines committee and involved in many of the group’s guidelines.