Summary
Dr. Nur Amalina Che Bakri is an NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow and Specialty Registrar at Imperial College London. Her research interests include breast cancer surgery, artificial intelligence, radiomics, wearable technology, and their applications in medicine.
Dr. Bakri received her medical degree in 2013 from Edinburgh Medical School, The University of Edinburgh, where she also completed a BMedSc in Pharmacology with an ERASMUS exchange at Leiden University in the Netherlands. She did an internship at Harvard Medical School, USA, followed by a foundation year of training in Cambridge. She also completed her Master's in Translational Medicine and Therapeutics from the University of Cambridge during her foundation years.
During her surgical training in London, she competitively won the Darzi Clinical Research Fellowship and is currently doing a PhD in surgical innovation and breast cancer using wearable technology to improve patient outcomes. Her PhD project is funded by the NIHR BRC, and she is supervised by Prof. Lord Ara Darzi, Mr. Daniel Leff, and Mr. Richard Kwasnicki. Additionally, she is an academic supervisor for BSc and MEng students at Imperial College London. She presented her research projects at many international conferences and published them in high-impact journals.
Aside from her academic and clinical work, Dr. Bakri is a strong advocate for women's empowerment and shares educational posts for public health education and medical teaching for medical students and junior doctors on social media. She was recently appointed as an ambassador for Genomics England. She also works with Public Health England (NHS) and No. 10 Downing Street on the latest COVID vaccine campaigns on their official social media platforms. She regularly gets invitations to become a panellist for many women's empowerment and educational events. She’s the Country Lead of Girls4Girls UK, where she spearheaded a national leadership course to encourage young women to become leaders. She received multiple awards, including being highly commended at the UK Women of the Future Award 2021, the Inspirational Youth Award from the Ministry of Youth and Sports of Malaysia, the Muslim National Award from the King of Malaysia, and being chosen as one of the Asia GenT Leaders of Tomorrow.
Current BSc students:
- Luqman Tenang
- Manolis Giannas
Publications
Journals
Kwasnicki RM, Irukulla M, Che Bakri NA, et al., 2024, Identifying variation in the cost of abdominally based breast reconstruction in the UK., J Plast Reconstr Aesthet Surg, Vol:88, Pages:466-472
Che Bakri NA, Kwasnicki RM, Giannas E, et al., 2023, ASO author reflections: objective outcome measure of upper limb function following axillary lymph node dissection and sentinel lymph node biopsy, Annals of Surgical Oncology, Vol:30, ISSN:1068-9265, Pages:7133-7134
Che Bakri NA, Kwasnicki RMM, Giannas E, et al., 2023, ASO Visual Abstract: The Use of Wearable Activity Monitors to Measure the Upper Limb Physical Activity After Axillary Lymph Node Dissection and Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy, Annals of Surgical Oncology, ISSN:1068-9265
Che Bakri NA, Kwasnicki R, Giannas E, et al., 2023, The Use of Wearable Activity Monitors to Measure the Upper Limb Physical Activity after Axillary Lymph Node Dissection and Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy, Annals of Surgical Oncology, ISSN:1068-9265
Che Bakri NA, Kwasnicki R, Khan N, et al., 2023, Impact of axillary lymph node dissection and sentinel lymph node biopsy on upper limb morbidity in breast cancer patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis, Annals of Surgery, Vol:277, ISSN:0003-4932, Pages:572-580