Mr Martin J. Connor

Faculty of Medicine, Department of Surgery & Cancer

Research Postgraduate

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Location

5L01East WingCharing Cross Campus

Summary

Mr Martin J. Connor is a Specialty Registrar and Senior Clinical Research Fellow in Urological Surgery to Professor Hashim U. Ahmed and Mr Mathias Winkler at the Division of Surgery, Department of Surgery and Cancer, Charing Cross Campus as part of the North West London Training Deanary.

Martin's primary research interests is in: the role of PSMA PET/CT in high-risk prostate cancer, local cytoreductive therapy and metastasis-directed therapies for men with newly-diagnosed metastatic prostate cancer. He has a further interest in understanding how men make treatment decisions in prostate cancer, including the use of discrete choice experiments.

Martin has received grant funding from the Wellcome Trust and University College London Hospitals (UCLH) Charity. He is also the national research fellow for the RCT IP2-ATLANTA and the co-PI for the multicentre study IP5-MATTER with Professor Hashim U. Ahmed. Martin is an appointed member of the National Cancer Research Institute (NCRI) Early Career Researcher group.

Twitter: @Connor_Urol

ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Martin_Connor3

GoogleScholar: https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=JIQhf_0AAAAJ&hl=en

Website: www.imperialprostate.org.uk

IP5-MATTER (NCT04590976)

IP2-ATLANTA (NCT03763253)

IP1-PROSTAGRAM (NCT03702439)

Research Awards:

American Urological Association (AUA) 2020 Meeting Best Moderated Poster - Prostate Cancer Screening
Malcolm Coptcoat Prize BAUS / RSM Urology 2019 - Virtual Urology Clinic
BJUI - Top 10 Most cited & downloaded paper 2020

Publications

Journals

Pchejetski D, Hunter E, Dezfouli M, et al.Pchejetski D, Hunter E, Dezfouli M, Salter M, Powell R, Green J, Naithani T, Koutsothanasi C, Alshaker H, Jaipuria J, Connor MJ, Eldred-Evans D, Fiorentino F, Ahmed H, Akoulitchev A, Winkler M close, 2023, Circulating Chromosome Conformation Signatures Significantly Enhance PSA Positive Predicting Value and Overall Accuracy for Prostate Cancer Detection, Cancers, Vol:15

Connor MJJ, Gorin MAA, Eldred-Evans D, et al.Connor MJJ, Gorin MAA, Eldred-Evans D, Bass EJJ, Desai A, Dudderidge T, Winkler M, Ahmed HUU close, 2023, Landmarks in the evolution of prostate biopsy, Nature Reviews Urology, ISSN:1759-4812

Eldred-Evans D, Connor MJ, Tanaka MB, et al.Eldred-Evans D, Connor MJ, Tanaka MB, Bass E, Reddy D, Walters U, Stroman L, Espinosa E, Das R, Khosla N, Tam H, Pegers E, Qazi H, Gordon S, Winkler M, Ahmed HU close, 2022, The rapid assessment for prostate imaging and diagnosis (RAPID) prostate cancer diagnostic pathway, Bju International, ISSN:1464-4096

Peters M, Eldred-Evans D, Kurver P, et al.Peters M, Eldred-Evans D, Kurver P, Falagario UG, Connor MJ, Shah TT, Verhoeff JJC, Taimen P, Aronen HJ, Knaapila J, Perez IM, Ettala O, Stabile A, Gandaglia G, Fossati N, Martini A, Cucchiara V, Briganti A, Lantz A, Picker W, Haug ES, Nordstrom T, Tanaka MB, Reddy D, Bass E, van Rossum PSN, Wong K, Tam H, Winkler M, Gordon S, Qazi H, Bostrom PJ, Jambor I, Ahmed HU close, 2022, Predicting the Need for Biopsy to Detect Clinically Significant Prostate Cancer in Patients with a Magnetic Resonance Imaging- detected Prostate Imaging Reporting and Data System/Likert >3 Lesion: Development and Multinational External Validation of the Imperial Rapid Access to Prostate Imaging and Diagnosis Risk Score, European Urology, Vol:82, ISSN:0302-2838, Pages:559-568

Bass E, Pantovic A, Connor M, et al.Bass E, Pantovic A, Connor M, Loeb S, Rastinehad A, Winkler M, Gabe R, Ahmed H close, 2022, Diagnostic accuracy of magnetic resonance imaging targeted biopsy techniques compared to transrectal ultrasound guided biopsy of the prostate: a systematic review and meta-analysis, Prostate Cancer and Prostatic Diseases, Vol:25, ISSN:1365-7852, Pages:174-179

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