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Radka Obermannova, MD, PhD

Masaryk Memorial Cancer Institute and Masaryk University
Brno, Czech Republic

Radka Obermannova MD, PhD is a senior consultant at the Department of Comprehensive Cancer Care at Masaryk Memorial Cancer Institute in Brno, Czech Republic. She completed her medical studies at Masaryk University in Brno and then went on to the PhD program on vitamin D levels' role in metastatic colorectal cancer outcomes. Her scientific focus on GI cancer inspired her for a subsequent research career, namely in her interest in optimising multimodal gastric cancer treatment involving predictors of treatment response.
She was a head physician of the GI inpatient ward and since 2012 has also been a chief physician of a Phase I unit. In 2019 she has appointed a deputy chair of science and research at the Department of Comprehensive Cancer Care. She is involved in drug development as a principal investigator and co-investigator of clinical trials. Dr Obermannova is a co-author of national guidelines on oesophageal and gastric cancer and she is also a co-author of ESMO oesophageal cancer treatment guidelines. Dr Obermannova is a member of the ESMO educational committee in GI cancers and the Individualized Therapy Task Force co-chair at EORTC Gastrointestinal Tract Cancer Working Group, a member of the International Gastric Cancer Association (IGCA) and Czech Society of Oncology.

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