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Per Pfeiffer

Odense University Hospital
Odense, Denmark

Per Pfeiffer, MD, PhD, is currently Professor at the University of Southern Denmark, Head of Clinical Research Unit and the Digestive Oncology Unit at department of Oncology, Odense University Hospital, Denmark.
Prof. Per Pfeiffer obtained his degree of MD and PhD at the University of Southern Denmark. Per Pfeifer trained in internal medicine, surgery and oncology in Odense and Aarhus, Denmark and became consultant in Digestive Oncology at department of Oncology, Odense University Hospital in 1998.
His research interests include primarily clinical cancer research in patients with gastrointestinal cancer, primarily colorectal, gastric and pancreatic cancer.
He has a large clinical activity in Odense, Denmark and is involved and leads National and Nordic clinical and translational research projects on gastrointestinal cancer.
He has published more than 250 peer-reviewed articles (H-factor 50) in prestigious journals including Lancet Oncolology, Journal of Clinical Oncology, Annals of Oncology, British Journal of Cancer and European Journal of Cancer, and given more than 100 congress presentations and lectures on gastrointestinal cancer. Dr. Pfeiffer is member of ESMO and the Nordic Colorectal Cancer Biomodulation Group, he is chairman of the Danish Pancreatic Cancer Group and is recent past chairman of the Danish Colorectal Oncology Group. He serves as co-editor and reviewer for several oncology journals.
Most recently he planned, conducted and published/presented two Nordic randomized trials (Nordic 8 and Nordic 9) and one Danish randomized trial in metastatic colorectal cancer (Danish Lonsurf trial).

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