Spotlight events at The Christie Charity

The Christie Charity Spotlight events are an opportunity to hear from leading clinicians about their own area of work at The Christie and to learn about the impact that The Christie Charity has on treatment options and services available to patients.

They are free to attend and open to anyone who would like to hear more about our work.

Spotlight on innovation

Our next Spotlight event is on Thursday 18 September 2025, from 10.30am to 12pm at the Oglesby Cancer Research Building.

Join us for our next event and hear about how The Christie Charity is pledging £7 million toward a new Total Body PET-CT scanner to improve diagnosis and develop faster treatment plans for patients at The Christie.

Our Spotlight events are free and open to everyone, but places are limited so please book early.

You will hear from Dr Prakash Manoharan and Dr Heather Williams MBE, about how this innovative new scanner will transform our approach to cancer care.

PET-CT scanning (Position Emission Tomography-Computed Tomography) plays a vital role in many patients’ cancer journey. It’s used to help diagnose a range of different cancers, see how far they’ve spread and determine the best treatments.

Our speakers will explain how our new Total Body PET-CT scanner will  capture the highest quality images of a patient’s entire body in as little as five minutes, in one continuous scan. It will also provide experts with a wealth of data for cancer research, to help provide more precise and personalised patient care.

We will also be joined by patient speaker John McCormick, who will share his experience of treatment at The Christie.

Guest speakers

• Dr Prakash Manoharan - Consultant Radiologist & Nuclear Medicine Physician NHSE PET CT, Phase 1 Clinical Lead Academy Director and Clinical Molecular Imaging Lead
• Dr Heather Williams MBE - Consultant Medical Physicist and Clinical Director, Christie Medical Physics and Engineering
• Patient Speaker – John McCormick

Light refreshments will be provided.

You can also see recordings of our previous Spotlight events on our YouTube account.