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
Talavera-Urquijo E, Gantxegi A, Garbarino GM, et al., 2023, ESDE-MIE fellowship: a descriptive analysis of the first experiences., Dis Esophagus
Wen Q, Myridakis A, Boshier PR, et al., 2023, A complete pipeline for untargeted urinary volatolomic profiling with sorptive extraction and dual polar and nonpolar column methodologies coupled with gas chromatography time-of-flight mass spectrometry., Analytical Chemistry, Vol:95, ISSN:0003-2700, Pages:758-765
Antoniou SA, Florez ID, Markar S, et al., 2023, Author Correction: AGREE-S: AGREE II extension for surgical interventions: appraisal instrument., Surg Endosc, Vol:37
Schuring N, Jezerskyte E, van Berge Henegouwen MI, et al., 2023, Influence of postoperative complications following esophagectomy for cancer on quality of life: A European multicenter study., Eur J Surg Oncol, Vol:49, Pages:97-105
Leijonmarck W, Asplund J, Markar SR, et al., 2023, Weekday of gastrectomy and long-term survival in gastric adenocarcinoma., Eur J Surg Oncol, Vol:49, Pages:83-88