Dr Hartmut Kristeleit

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Dr Hartmut Kristeleit is a Consultant Medical Oncologist at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust and lead for Acute Oncology at South London Healthcare NHS Trust.

He is a specialist in the treatment of Breast cancer and Acute Oncology.

Dr Kristeleit provides the medical oncology service for breast cancer at Queen Elizabeth and Queen Mary's hospitals and is currently the lead clinician for Acute Oncology in the South East London Accountable Cancer Network.

Dr Kristeleit completed his undergraduate studies at the Universities of Bonn (Germany), Lausanne (Switzerland) and Barts and The London School of Medicine. He has a first class medical degree from Bonn University and performed his post graduate and specialist training in London teaching hospitals. He spent four years as an AVON Clinical Research Fellow at the Breakthrough Breast Cancer Research Centre investigating novel targets in familial breast cancer. He was appointed as a Consultant Medical Oncologist at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust in 2009.

Dr Kristeleit has a keen research interest in the role of novel therapies for breast cancer. He is an investigator on numerous clinical trials for breast cancer and chairs the oncology research committee at Guy's and St Thomas'. He gives regular lectures for the University of London and has been invited to speak at national conferences and international meetings. He specializes in the treatment of early and advanced breast cancer.

He is bilingual in English and German and converses in French.