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Best Junior Faculty/Trainee Manuscript Award 

Dr. Sander Ubels   
Radboud University Medical Centre, PhD Student, Netherlands 

Sander is a PhD student, who will defend his thesis shortly. He has managed to publish every single manuscript in his thesis in leading surgical journals. For the last months he has combined his research with clinical work as a resident, his formal surgical training will start this July. During his six-year residency he will stay involved in the esophageal cancer research group in the Radboudumc as a PostDoc.The title of his awarded article is: Predicting mortality in patients with anastomotic leak after esophagectomy: development of a prediction model using data from the TENTACLE—Esophagus study | Diseases of the Esophagus | Oxford Academic (oup.com) 

  

Outstanding Junior Faculty Peer Reviewer Award 

Dr. Sivesh Kamarajah 
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust   

NIHR ACF General Surgery Trainee at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Trust Hospitals (UHB) and University of Birmingham. Steering committee member for the Student Audit and Research in Surgery (STARSurg) National Collaborative and the International, multicenter prospective cohort study, Esophagogastric Anastomosis Audit (OGAA)