Kezia Gaitskell

Dr Kezia Gaitskell is a Senior Clinical Research Fellow and UKRI Future Leaders Fellow in the Cancer Epidemiology Unit (CEU) at Oxford Population Health. She is an Honorary Consultant in Gynaecological Histopathology at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Her main research interest is in the interface between histopathology and epidemiology. Her UKRI Fellowship focuses on using large population-based studies to investigate the origins of specific histological types of ovarian and endometrial cancers. She is also involved in collaborations integrating epidemiology and pathology to study cancers at other sites, including breast, colorectal, oesophageal, and kidney cancers. She is currently leading feasibility studies of incorporating digital histopathology slides and tissue samples from participants with ovarian, endometrial, kidney, or colon cancers, across two large UK cohorts.

Prior to her current role, she completed clinical training alongside postdoctoral research as an NIHR-funded Academic Clinical Lecturer in Histopathology in Oxford and worked as a Locum Consultant in Histopathology at Oxford University Hospitals. She studied medicine in Oxford, trained as a histopathology registrar in London, and completed an MSc in Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. She undertook her DPhil in CEU as part of the Cancer Research UK Oxford Centre’s Clinical Research Training Fellowship programme. She also holds an MSt in Practical Ethics from Oxford.