Ann Barrett OBE (born 27 February 1943), is Emeritus Professor of Oncology in the University of East Anglia, England,[1] and formerly deputy dean of the School of Medicine and lead clinician for oncology at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital NHS Trust.
Following that she spent a year in Paris at the Fondation Curie and l'Institut Gustav Roussy before returning to the Royal Marsden Hospital for ten years, first as lecturer, and then senior lecturer and consultant with a particular interest in paediatric oncology and cancer in young people.
This was the time of the earliest bone marrow transplantation work, and she produced the first UK technique for whole body irradiation.
She is the author of more than 150 papers and five textbooks, including the Oxford Desktop Reference in Oncology.
She has received awards from the American College of Radiology, the American Society for Therapeutic Radiation Oncology, honorary fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, the President's medal of the RCR and a lifetime achievement award from ESTRO.