{"entity":{"id":"ashley-ball-gamble","kind":"person","name":"Ashley Ball-Gamble","aka":[],"tldr":"Chief executive of CCLG, the UK charity and professional body that unites the children's and young people's cancer community.","summary":"Ashley Ball-Gamble is Chief Executive Officer of the Children's Cancer and Leukaemia Group (CCLG), a registered charity founded nearly 50 years ago that brings together professionals working in children's and young people's cancer to drive collective action and research. The executive team also includes Claire Shinfield (Director of Engagement) and Chief Nurses Jeanette Hawkins and Jo Stark. The charity's Chair is Dr Sara Stoneham, a consultant paediatric and teenage and young adult oncologist at University College London Hospital, and David Oxnam chairs the Board of Trustees.","asOf":"2026-09-10","links":[{"label":"Source: CCLG executive members page","url":"https://www.cclg.org.uk/about-us/our-team/our-executive-members"}],"tags":["leadership","paediatric-oncology","charity"],"related":[],"cancers":[],"sections":[],"technologies":[],"targets":[],"drugs":[],"companies":["cclg"],"institutions":[],"pathways":[],"terms":[],"trials":[],"people":[],"bottlenecks":[],"keyPapers":[],"journals":[],"dependsOn":[],"notes":[],"role":"Chief Executive Officer of the Children's Cancer and Leukaemia Group","institutionId":"cclg","specialisms":["Childhood cancer","Charity leadership","Professional membership organisations"],"profiles":[{"label":"Institution executive members page","url":"https://www.cclg.org.uk/about-us/our-team/our-executive-members"}],"papers":[{"title":"The Childhood Cancer Diagnosis (CCD) Study: a UK observational study to describe referral pathways and quantify diagnostic intervals in children and young people with cancer","journal":"BMJ Open","year":2022,"doi":"10.1136/bmjopen-2021-058744"},{"title":"Clinical presentation of bone tumours in children and young people: a systematic review and meta-analysis","journal":"Archives of Disease in Childhood","year":2025,"doi":"10.1136/archdischild-2024-327879"},{"title":"Research priorities for children’s cancer: a James Lind Alliance Priority Setting Partnership in the UK","journal":"BMJ Open","year":2023,"doi":"10.1136/bmjopen-2023-077387"}]},"route":"/people/ashley-ball-gamble/","neighbours":{"company":[{"id":"cclg","kind":"company","name":"Children's Cancer and Leukaemia Group","route":"/companies/cclg/"}]}}