Summary
From 2013 to 2016, I was awarded doctoral research fellowship by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) in the United Kingdom, through which I undertook my first PhD at Imperial College London. The subject was basic science focusing on non-invasive breath analysis of volatile organic compounds (breath test) for the diagnosis of gastro-intestinal cancer. From 2015 to 2018 I undertook my second PhD at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden, through which I developed further knowledge in clinical research in the surgical treatment of oesophageal cancer.
In 2016, I was awarded my first postdoctoral position with a NIHR Clinical Trials fellowship, to support my training in the design and conduct of randomised clinical trials /RCTs) at Imperial College London. Through this fellowship I was also able to work on an RCT comparing minimally invasive with open surgery for oesophageal cancer, which was published in New England Journal of Medicine. In 2017 I was appointed as NIHR Clinical Lecturer in Oesophago-Gastric Surgery at Imperial College London. The focus of my research became cancer survivorship, through which I coordinated three large multi-center European studies with recruitment of over 1000 oesophageal cancer survivors. I also continued my basic science research in breath test analysis as supervisor of PhD students, studying breath profiling of early oesophageal cancer and its premalignant lesion (Barrett’s oesophagus).
Publications
Journals
Markar SR, Guazzelli A, Taylor A, et al., 2023, Protocol for open-label randomized clinical trial of intensive surveillance versus standard postoperative follow-up in patients undergoing surgical resection for oesophageal and gastric cancer., Br J Surg, Vol:110, Pages:1359-1360
Hanna L, Jha R, Sounderajah V, et al., 2023, Patient Reported Outcome Measures Used to Assess Quality of Life in Aortic Dissection: a Systematic Scoping Review using COSMIN Methodology., Eur J Vasc Endovasc Surg, Vol:66, Pages:343-350
Kauppila JH, Markar S, Santoni G, et al., 2023, Temporal Changes in Obesity-Related Medication After Bariatric Surgery vs No Surgery for Obesity., Jama Surg, Vol:158, Pages:817-823
Casey P, Gossage JA, Ford K, et al., 2023, The current landscape of nutrition care in oesophageal and gastric cancer - insights from the national oesophagogastric nutrition audit (NONA) survey., Clin Nutr Espen, Vol:56, Pages:87-93
Patel K, Sounderajah V, Hanna L, et al., 2023, Quantifying the burden of survivorship associated with infrarenal abdominal aortic aneurysms., J Vasc Surg, Vol:78, Pages:549-557.e23