Research description
Omid Sadr Azodi graduated from the medical programme at Karolinska Institutet in 2007 and became a licensed physician in 2009. He defended his PhD-thesis in clinical epidemiology in 2008 and has since then pursued research as a postdoctoral researcher alongside his clinical work as a surgeon. He became Associate Professor of Clinical Epidemiology in 2013.
Research area
The research addresses the etiology and clinical management of diseases in the gastrointestinal tract, including acute pancreatitis and upper gastrointestinal cancer. He is field responsible for the research in bile duct cancer within the unit. His research is conducted using both clinical databases and population-based registries.
Education
2015- General Surgeon
2010-2015 Resident of Surgery
2007-2009 Research-internship, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
2008 PhD in clinical epidemiology, Unit of Clinical Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Tobacco smoking, high body mass index and the outcome after surgery: the role of intervention, Supervisor: Rino Bellocco; Co-supervisors: Johanna Adami, Andreas Wladis, and Karl Eriksson.2007-2009 Research-internship, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
2001-2007 Medical school at Karolinska Institutet, MD in 2007
Academic honours, awards and prizes
2019- Swedish Society of Surgeon's Grand Research Prize
2016- UEG Rising Star, European Prize for research in the field of gastroenterology 2014- Bengt Ihre Award, Swedish Society of Surgeons 2010- Award from the Swedish Society of Gastroenterologist