The project has been carried out at Rigshospitalet, unit 7641, Trygfondens Center for Aktiv Sundhed (CFAS),
www.aktivsundhed.dk
Title:
Role of skeletal muscle mass and function in patients undergoing surgery for upper gastrointestinal cancer: clinical implications, methodological challenges and exercise-based treatment
Supervisors:
Primary supervisor:
Professor Bente Klarlund Pedersen, MD, DMSc
Director of Centre for Physical Activity Research (CFAS)
Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark
Primary co-supervisor:
Associate Professor Jesper Frank Christensen, PhD
Centre for Physical Activity Research (CFAS)
Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark
Co-supervisor:
Professor Lars Bo Svendsen, MD, DMSc
Department of Surgical Gastroenterology
Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark
Assessment committee:
Associate Professor Martin Sillesen, MD, PhD (Chair)
Department of Clinical Medicine,
University of Copenhagen
Professor Ulrik Dalgas, PhD
Aarhus Universitet, Denmark
Professor Kristin Campbell, PhD
The University of British Columbia, Canada