Professor Mike Dixon is a Consultant Breast Surgeon at the Edinburgh Breast Unit, and Clinical Director of the Breast Cancer Now Research Group in Edinburgh and holds an Honorary Professorship in Breast Surgery at the University of Edinburgh. In 2013 he received an OBE from HRH The Queen for his work improving our understanding and management of breast disease. He has published over 330 papers, contributed 130 book chapters, and written or edited 25 books. He has given over 200 invited lectures, was the Royal College of Surgeons of Australasia Visiting Fellow in 2000 and 2011, and was visiting Professor to Yale and Harvard in 2012.