Meet the team
Our team consists of doctors, biomedical engineers, data scientists, and students. We also collaborate with other clinical departments, research institutions, and the MedTech industry.
Tobias Todsen
Group Leader
Tobias is a Head and Neck Surgeon, PhD at Rigshospitalet and an Associate Professor at the University of Copenhagen.
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Fatemeh Makouei
Head of Techincal Research
Fatemeh is a Biomedical Engineer, PhD at Rigshospitalet and an Assistant Professor at the University of Copenhagen.
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Martin Garset-Zamani
Medical Doctor, PhD Student
Martin is a Registrar in Otolaryngology conducting a PhD project on transoral ultrasound to improve the diagnostic workup of oropharyngeal cancer.
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Kasper Daugaard Larsen
Medical Doctor, PhD Student
Kasper is doing a multicentre randomized clinical trial comparing a spinal versus conventional needle for fine needle aspiration (FNA) biopsies of thyroid nodules.
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Nina Buhl Sannino-Greve
Medical Doctor, PhD Student
Nina is conducting randomized controlled trials of surgeon-performed transoral and transcervical ultrasound in the diagnostic work-up of oropharyngeal cancer and a prospective study of ex vivo 3D ultrasound for surgical margins in oropharyngeal cancer.
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Amalie Hartvig Pall
Medical Doctor, PhD Student
Amalie is investigating novel ultrasound techniques to improve diagnostic workup in the outpatient clinic. These include cervical and transoral ultrasound of the oropharynx in patients suspected of oropharynx cancer and patients with a suspected peritonsillar abscess.
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Daniel Lauritzen
Medical Doctor, PhD Student
Daniel is conducting a randomized controlled trial on the use of intraoperative 3D ultrasound to improve the surgical treatment of patients with oral cancer.
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Jacob Lund-Andersen
Medical Doctor
Jacob is working on an ad-hoc research project analysing data on COVID-19 testing, with the goal of identifying important learnings from the vast amount of data on testing collected by the research group during the pandemic.
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Jacob Nielsen
Medical Doctor
Jacob is a Medical Doctor working together with Amalie on a research project, in which the explore how to diagnose infections of the pharynx and oral cavity more effectively by using AI-models build on images as a diagnostic instrument.
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Tina Klitmøller Agander
Senior Consultant Pathologist, PhD
​Tina is Head of Head & Neck Pathology at Rigshospitalet and provides pathology expertise across the SURGIC team's many different projects.
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Kyriakos Spartalis
Research Assistant
Kyriakos is a Research Assistant with a degree in Mechanical Engineering and currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Biomedical Engineering. His responsibilities include assisting with 3D ultrasound scans during surgeries and providing technical support to the team.
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Zakir Hussain Shahoo
Research Assistant
Zakir is a Research Assistant Bachelor’s degree in Healthcare Technology. He is involved in various research and development projects within the team.
Márta Menta Czinkóczky
Research Assistant
Márta has a Bachelor's degree in Biological and Biomedical Sciences from Trinity College Dublin and a Master's degree in Bioinformatics from the University of Copenhagen. She is involved in the clinical research focused on biomarker discovery within the team.
Theresa Dahl Frehr
Research Assistant
Theresa is pursuing her Master's degree in Mathematical Modelling and Computation with a focus on medical image analysis at DTU. She is involved in the technical and clinical research within the team.
Magnus Ahasverusen
BEng Healthcare Technology, Student
Magnus is pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in Healthcare Technology. He is currently writing his thesis, focusing on enhancing interaction in surgical assessment workflows in 3D ultrasound.​
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Joachim Kjelde
Medical Student
Joachim is a Medical Student doing a research year as part of his Master's degree. He is conducting a study on freehand ultrasound to improve the diagnostic workup of lymph nodes in cases of head and neck cancer.​
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joachim.bugge.thestrup.kjelde.01@regionh.dk​​
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Nikolaj Severin Stæhr Hertz
Research Assistant
Nikolaj is studying Mathematical Modelling and Computation at DTU, with a strong interest in the newest developments in AI. Currently, he's working on building a 3D segmentation model for ultrasound volumes, while also assisting on other related projects.
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Katarina Deborah Nielsen
Communications Student
Katarina is a Communications Assistant pursuing a Bachelor's degree in Rhetoric. She supports communication tasks through social media and manages the SURGiC website.
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