Dr Dima El-Sharkawi is a Consultant Haematologist at the Royal Marsden Hospital in Sutton. Her special interests are in CLL, rare leukaemias and lymphomas as well as early phase trials and drug development. She has been an investigator on a number of clinical research studies in these disease groups. She is clinical lead of the Specialist Integrated Haematological Malignancy Diagnostic Services at The Royal Marsden.  She is a member of the UK lymphoma research group and CLL trials groups and has co-authored national guidelines for the diagnosis and management of T cell lymphoma and Waldenstrom macroglobulinaemia.