Agenda - September 23 Webinar

PhD student, Department of Surgery, Erasmus MC, University Medical Centre, Netherlands

Ben Eyck

Ben Eyck is MD, PhD student at Dept. of Surgery of the Erasmus MC - University Medical Centre in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. His PhD thesis focuses on neoadjuvant treatment, active surveillance after neoadjuvant treatment, and surgical treatment for esophageal cancer.

University of Southampton, Southampton General Hospital, UK

Fereshteh Izadi

Fereshteh Izadi completed a PhD in comparing gene regulatory networks by microarray and RNA-seq in July 2017. Shortly after she started her first postdoctoral job in University College London as a bioinformatician on single cell RNA-seq data analysis. Afterwards she started her second job at University of Southampton working on multi omics data analysis in oesophageal adenocarcinoma.

NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow, General Surgery, University Hospital Birmingham NHS Trust, UK

Sivesh Kamarajah

Sivesh Kamarajah is currently an NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow in General Surgery at University Hospital Birmingham NHS Trust. He is currently steering committee member for the Student Audit and Research in Surgery (STARSurg) National Collaborative, the International, multicentre prospective cohort study, Oesophagogastric Anastomosis Audit (OGAA), and the CovidSurg Collaborative.

PhD Student, General Surgery, Karolinska University Hospital, Sweden

Klara Nilsson

Klara Nilsson is a PhD student at Karolinska Institute and 5th year resident in general surgery at Karolinska University Hospital. Her academic work is mainly focused on the timing of surgery after neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy in the treatment of esophageal cancer.

Clinical Surgery, St. Jame's Hospital & Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

John V. Reynolds

Professor Reynolds is Professor of Clinical Surgery at the St. James’s Hospital and Trinity College Dublin. He is the National Lead for oesophageal and gastric cancer. He is Cancer Lead at St. James’s Hospital and the Trinity School of Medicine, and a Principal Investigator in the Trinity Translational Medicine Institute. He has formerly held Fellowship positions with the University of Pennsylvania and Wistar Institute in Philadelphia and at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Centre in New York. He was a Senior Lecturer at St. James’s University Hospital in Leeds (1994-6). Professor Reynolds has obtained numerous research awards and has published widely in cancer research, with over 250 publications and approximately €5m research grant income. His clinical interest is in diseases of the oesophagus and stomach. His research interest is in four areas: (1) pathogenesis of Barrett’s oesophagus and progression; (2) prediction of response and resistance to chemotherapy and radiation therapy.

Director & Chief Surgical Oncologist, Indo-American Cancer Hospital, Hyderabad

Subramanyeshwar Rao Thammineedi

M.S (Gen. Surgery ), M.Ch(Surgical Oncology

Professional positions:

Formerly: Professor of Surgical Oncology, Osmania Medical College, Hyderabad
Presently: Director & Chief Surgical Oncologist, Indo-American Cancer Hospital, Hyderabad

Organisational positions:
Past Secretary – Indian Association of Surgical Oncology
Past President - ASI Telangana
Vice President - Hyderabad Surgeons Society
Chief Patron - Hockey Warangal

Author of 84 Publications.
Reviewer: Journals in Surgical Oncology, Gynecologic Oncology and Thoracic Oncology

Surgery in Erasmus MC, University Medical Center, USA

Berend van der Wilk

Berend van der Wilk is a PhD candidate at the department of Surgery in Erasmus MC - University Medical Center. He is one of the coordinators of the randomized SANO-trial (Surgery As Needed for Oesophageal cancer). His promotor is prof. dr. JJB van Lanschot.

General Surgical Trainee, Australia

Ravi Vissapragada

Ravi Vissapragada is a general surgical trainee from Adelaide, Australia. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. from Flinders University. His research interests are in detection of Barrett's Esophagus and Esophageal cancer in Volatile Organic Compounds in exhaled breath and improving cost-effectiveness of endoscopic surveillance of Barrett's Esophagus.

PhD Candidate, Dutch Institute for Clinical Auditing, Amsterdam

Daan M Voeten

Daan M Voeten is a PhD candidate at the Dutch Institute for Clinical Auditing and the Amsterdam University Medical Center under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Van Berge Henegouwen and Prof. Dr. Van Hillegersberg. The main focus of his work is assessment of quality of Dutch surgical upper gastrointestinal care at the Dutch Upper Gastrointestinal Cancer Audit (DUCA).

Esophago-gastric Surgical Trainee, University of Southampton, UK

Rob Walker

Rob Walker is a Cancer Research UK Clinical Research Fellow and esophago-gastric surgical trainee at the University of Southampton, UK. Working under the mentorship of Professor Tim Underwood, he is completing a PhD on the tumor micro-environment in esophageal adenocarcinoma. His research focusses on single cell RNA sequencing to detect rare cell types and interpreting the cell-cell interactions. He has published on both the molecular biology and clinical management of esophageal cancer and was awarded the British Journal of Surgery prize paper at the Association of Upper Gastrointestinal Surgery (AUGIS) congress in 2019 for his research.