Emma Foreman

Consultant Pharmacist, Chair of the British Oncology Pharmacy Association (BOPA), Chair of Biosimilars Taskforce for the International Society for Oncology Pharmacy Practitioners (ISOPP)

Emma has been a hospital pharmacist for over 20 years, working in a variety of different hospitals from small district generals to large teaching hospitals – including a tiny mission hospital in Ghana! She specialised in oncology in 2001 taking on both technical and clinical roles, qualifying as an independent prescriber in 2010 and completing an MSc in clinical oncology at Birmingham University in 2011. She is a visiting lecturer at University of Brighton and University of Sussex.

As a Consultant Pharmacist, Emma works with a multidisciplinary team to innovate and implement chemotherapy service improvements as well as working with the pharmacy team to promote the role of pharmacists as advanced practitioners and develop a pharmacist-led research portfolio. Her specialist clinical area is renal cancer, and she works with the clinical team at the Royal Marsden to ensure that renal cancer patients get the most out of their medicines. She is currently Chair of the British Oncology Pharmacy Association (BOPA) and Chairs a Biosimilars Taskforce for the International Society for Oncology Pharmacy Practitioners (ISOPP).