Dr. Brackstone is Professor of Surgery and Oncology at Western University’s Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry and London's city-wide Chair/Chief for the division of General Surgery. She is a general surgeon with subspecialty fellowship training in breast surgical oncology. She is the breast site Guideline Lead for Ontario Health and was the lead author on a number of national clinical guideline documents for breast cancer care, including the joint ASCO and Ontario Health/Cancer Care Ontario's Program in Evidence-Based Care guideline on the Management of the Axilla and the CCO guidelines on Locally Advanced Breast Cancer and upcoming DCIS Management guideline. Dr. Brackstone was the founding Medical Director of London’s Breast Care Program and created the London Tumour Biobank, used to conduct translational clinical trials such as preoperative Window of Opportunity Trials in ImmunoOncology in Breast Cancer.