Tampere university hospital and Karolinska Hospital/Institutet
Tampere, Finland
Pia Österlund is halftime adjunct professor at Karolinska Institutet and senior consultant at Karolinska Comprehensive Cancer Centre in Stockholm, Sweden. She is also halftime deputy head at department of Oncology at Tampere university hospital and head of the GI-cancer team and tumour boards. Before that she worked as full professor in oncology at Tampere university and as consultant with responsibility of the GI outpatients at Helsinki university hospital. She is supervising/has supervised 9 PhD theses. Pia Osterlund has authored or co-authored more than 150 peer-reviewed articles.
Dr Österlund has done research in the field of GI cancers since 1997 and did her PhD thesis on tolerability of chemotherapy for colorectal cancer. Some novel research findings regarding secondary lactose intolerance, lactobacillus supplementation, cytokine release etc, improves everyday life of cancer patients. She has been PI or national PI in >30 clinical studies and has done translational research in collaboration with national and international groups.
ESMO and ASCO membership has been a privilege, and she has served on several ESMO boards and in GI faculty. She is member of several Nordic GI-cancer groups, academic collaboration in colorectal cancer, international rare cancer initiative/ small bowel cancer and the Finnish GI-cancer group.
Wednesday, June 29, 2022
19:35 – 19:40
Thursday, June 30, 2022
08:00 – 09:25
Friday, July 1, 2022
08:20 – 08:45
Friday, July 1, 2022
18:41 – 19:00
Saturday, July 2, 2022
08:35 – 09:25
Saturday, July 2, 2022
09:30 – 13:15