Rachael Hough

Consultant and Professor of Haematology

Rachael Hough is a consultant haematologist at University College London Hospital’s NHS Foundation Trust and Professor of Haematology and Haemopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation at University College London.

She has worked exclusively with teenage and young adult (TYA) patients with haematological malignancies since her consultant appointment in 2005.

She has specialist expertise in the management of acute lymphoblastic leukaemia in this age group and the use of umbilical cord blood as an alternative source of haemopoietic stem cells.

She established a national BSBMT affiliated UK cord blood working group and has worked closely with the Department of Health, Stem Cell Strategic Forum and All Party Parliamentary Group of stem cells to promote the use of cord blood and to expand the national cord blood repository.