Dr Richard Shaffer is a world expert in benign radiotherapy and works in the UK as a consultant radiotherapy and radiation oncology specialist. He treats a wide range of benign conditions and was the first doctor to treat patients in the UK for Osteoarthritis, Tendinopathy and Bursitis. He has also treated the most patients in the UK for Dupuytren’s, Ledderhose and plantar fasciitis.

He is co-author of the Royal College of Radiologists guidelines on radiotherapy for benign conditions, and led the English-language version of the most recent German guidelines. He also serves on the American Radium Society Benign Radiotherapy Working Group and co-authored the first American case series on radiotherapy for osteoarthritis.

Dr Shaffer is President of the International Organisation for Radiotherapy for Benign Conditions. He is also the founder and CEO of RT-ABC, a global education company training other doctors in radiotherapy for benign disease.

He previously worked as an NHS Consultant in Clinical Oncology in Guildford for 10 years before moving into full-time private practice.