Tuomo Meretoja
Head Physician, Associate Professor
Head of Division
HUS Comprehensive Cancer Center, Department of Breast Surgery
- Education
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Associate Professor (Docent) in Experimental Surgery, University of Helsinki 2014; Specialist in General Surgery, University of Helsinki 2011; Specialist in Orthopedics and Traumatology 2013; Doctor of Medicine, University of Helsinki 2007; Licentiate of Medicine, University of Turku 2004; Management Training for specialists, University of Helsinki 2018
Research: Breast cancer and surgical treatment of breast cancer, genetic research, and epidemiology. Published more than 100 scientific articles in journals, such as Lancet, Nature and JAMA; the articles have been cited almost 40,000 times; H-index 50.
- Specialities
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Breast surgery, diagnostics and surgical treatment of breast cancer
- Languages
- English, Finnish, Swedish
- Positions of responsibility
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Member of the HUS Ethics Committee since 2018, European Society of Surgical Oncology Clinical Research Committee 2015, FinnGen Research Project, Chair of the Clinical Group on Oncology since 2020.