Hamish Wallace

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| name = Hamish Wallace

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| birth_name = William Hamish Beith Wallace

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| birth_place = Edinburgh, Scotland

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| education = St George's, University of London

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William Hamish Beith Wallace (born 25 October 1956) was a consultant paediatric oncologist at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh.{{cite web|title=Honorary Professor: Hamish Wallace|url=https://www.ed.ac.uk/news/staff/appointments-awards/2011/hamish-wallace-260711|website=University of Edinburgh|publisher=The University of Edinburgh 2018|accessdate=23 May 2018|date=9 October 2015}} He was a trustee of Clic Sargent (now known as Young Lives vs Cancer) from 2008 to 2011,{{cite web|title=clic Sargent Companies House|url=https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/officers/2plbh8tLPWrEop-zvpe3Jl0YQrg/appointments/|website=Companies House entry for wallace wh|publisher=Companies House|accessdate=29 April 2025}} national clinical director of the NHS Scotland Managed Service Network for Children and Young People with Cancer{{cite web|title=MSN CYPC Team - Professor W. Hamish B. Wallace|url=https://www.youngcancer.scot.nhs.uk/managed-service-network/msn-team|website=Managed Service Network for Children and Young People with Cancer|publisher=Managed Service Network Terms & Conditions Contact Us Copyright MSN For Children & Young People with Cancer 2014 – 2018|accessdate=23 May 2018}} in Scotland from 2015 to 2019, and twice president of the european network for paediatric Hodgkin lymphoma (2010-14 and 2018- 2022).{{cite web|title=NIH EuroNet|url=https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8716340/|website=NIH Euronet entry for wallace wh|publisher=National Institute of Health|accessdate=29 April 2025}}

He is author of four books and over 250 peer reviewed publications.{{cite web|title=pubmed - Professor W. Hamish B. Wallace|url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=wallace+wh|website=pubmed entry for wallace wh|publisher=National Library of Medicine|accessdate=29 April 2025}}{{cite web|title=google scholar - Professor W. Hamish B. Wallace|url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=mWGT8PEAAAAJ&hl=en|website=google scholar entry for wallace wh|publisher=Google Scholar|accessdate=29 April 2025}}

Life

Hamish Wallace was born in Edinburgh to William Wallace and Joan née Beith Wallace. Wallace attended firstly Gillsland Park School until the age of 11, followed by Oundle School in Northamptonshire, later graduating from St George's, University of London, University of London, in 1980.{{cite web|title=Professor W. HAMISH B. WALLACE|url=http://www.bdebate.org/sites/default/files/ficheros/curriculums/cv_hamishwallace_bdebate.pdf|website=B·Debate |publisher=B·Debate |accessdate=24 May 2018}} Wallace undertook his clinical training in paediatric oncology at Great Ormond Street Hospital, the University of Birmingham Medical School and the Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh. Wallace was awarded a Leukaemia Research Fund Research Fellowship with his consultant being Stephen Shalet at the University of Manchester and the Royal Manchester Children's Hospital, in the late 1980s. It was during this period, that he developed an interest in the late endocrine effects of the treatment of childhood cancer.

In 2004, Hamish married Elizabeth Wotherspoon. They have three children, and currently reside in North Berwick.{{cn|date=November 2024}}

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