Organization
ACROBATIC is supported by the Danish Cancer Society and integrated within the national Danish Comprehensive Cancer Center (DCCC).
The center is managed by:
Furthermore, the following groups assist the center in different matters:
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The management team
The Center Management Team consists of the Chairman and the Vice-chairman of The Executive Committee as well as the Scientific Coordinator. The Chairman of the Executive Committee is also the Center Leader of ACROBATIC.
The Executive Committee
The Executive Committee consists of 13 members, including 7 surgeons from four of the regions in Denmark, the Chairman and the Vice-chairman of the Executive Committee, as well as the Scientific Coordinator, a patient representative from the patient organization ‘Lung cancer’ and two NI Leaders. Broad professional, methodological and geographical composition is ensured with representation from all five Danish Regions; taking into account that different cancers are represented to the widest possible extent and with representatives from all three CFAs.
Members of the Executive Committee
The Executive Committee consists of the following members.
Lene Hjerrild Iversen
MD PhDChairman
Professor, Chief Consultant, Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Aalborg University Hospital, Faculty of Health Sciences, Aalborg University, and Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University
Marie-Louise Holm
MSc PhDScientific Coordinator
ACROBATIC
Bente Thoft Jensen
RN, MPH, PhDCommittee Member and CFA1 Leader
Senior Researcher, Department of Urology, Aarhus University Hospital and Department of Clinical Medicine
Thomas Baad-Hansen
MD, PhDVice-Chairman and CFA2 Co-Lead
Professor, Senior Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Department of Othopaedic Surgery, Aarhus University Hospital, and Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University
Tine Damsgaard
MD, PhD, MRBSCommittee Member and CFA2 Co-Lead
Professor, Senior Consultant Plastic Surgeon, Department of Plastic Surgery, Odense University Hospital and University Hospital of Southern Denmark, and Department of Regional Health Research, University of Southern Denmark
Peter Christensen
MD, PhDCommittee Member and CFA3 leader
Professor, Senior Consultant Abdominal Surgeon Department of Surgery, Aarhus University Hospital, and Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University
Søren Paaske Johnsen
MD, PhDCommittee Member and NI2 Leader
Professor, Danish Center for Health Services Research, Aalborg University Hospital and the Department of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Aalborg University
Michael Achiam
MD, PhD, DMSciCommittee Member
Professor, Department of Digestive Diseases, Transplantation and General Surgery, Centre of Cancer and Organ Diseases, Rigshospitalet and Department of Clinical Medicine, Copenhagen University.
Susanne Oksbjerg Dalton
Committee Member and NI4 Leader
Md, PhD, Director Danish Center for Equality in Cancer (COMPAS), Department of Clinical Oncology & Palliative Care, Zealand University Hospital, Roskilde
Ole Thorlacius-Ussing
MD, PhDCommittee Member
Professor, Senior Consultant Abdominal Surgeon Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Aalborg University Hospital, and Department of Clinical Medicine, Aalborg University.
Mads Hvid Aaberg Poulsen
MD, PhDCommittee Member
Professor, Senior Consultant Urologist, Department of Urology, University Hospital of Southern Denmark (Esbjerg) and Department of Regional Health Research, University of Southern Denmark
Gitte Persson
MD, PhDCommittee Member
Professor, Senior Consultant, Department of Oncology, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital and Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Copenhagen
Lisbeth Søbæk Hansen
Committee Member
Patient Representative. Patient Organization for Lung Cancer
The Center of Knowledge
The Center of Knowledge comprises all who contribute with scientific knowledge sharing.
The Center of Knowledge consists of key persons from:
- Collaborative cancer units ensuring representatives of various cancers
- The Clinical Focus Areas (CFAs)
- The National Infrastructures (NIs)
- Patient organizations
All WP Leaders, NI Leaders and all six patient representatives are part of the Center of Knowledge, which will meet one to two times per year. WP Leaders within each CFA are meeting at least three times per year to ensure progress of their research activities, and importantly, to facilitate further development of research across the surgical disciplines.
International Advisory Board
An international Advisory Board of five leading experts distributed within the CFAs will assist the Executive Committee regularly, and contribute to the planning of clinical trials. At present, four experts has bee appointed:
Julio Garcia-Aguilar
MD, PhDExpert in colorectal cancer, robotic surgery, and survivorship
Chief Attending, Senior Consultant Surgeon Department of Surgery, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Ajay Puri
MBBS, MSc, PhDExpert in sarcoma
Professor, Head of Department Department of Surgical Oncology, TATA Memorial Centre, Mumbai, India
Anna Campbell
MSc, PhDExpert in cancer specific prehabilitation
Professor Clinical Exercise Sciences, School of Applied Science, Edinburgh Napier University, UK
Chelsia Gillis
Dietitian, RD, MSc, PhDExpert in prehabilitation
Assistant Professor, Registered Dietitian. Nutrition Lead, Peri Operative Program, McGill University Health Centre, Canada
A fifth international expert will be appointed after a grant.
Patient organizations
Patient representatives of six organizations have committed themselves to become active participants in ACROBATIC. They represent organizations of lung, colorectal, bladder, prostate, and gynecological cancer, as well as survivorship and late adverse effects.
The patient representatives are part of the Center of Knowledge, and share and disseminate new knowledge to patient organizations and the public. Further, they are involved in patient-directed written information and communication, and they are invited to contribute within all parts of research from the design of clinical protocols to interpretation of data.
Patient representatives
Jette Lyngholm
Bowel Cancer Association
Gitte Kühne Plambek
Gynecological Cancer Patient Association (KIU)
Niels Einer-Jensen
Patient Organization for Prostate Cancer
Marianne Nord Hansen
Danish Cancer Survivorship and Late Effects Group
Lisbeth Søbæk Hansen
Patient Organization for Lung Cancer
John Redlef Nielsen
Patient Organization for Bladder Cancer