Fahad Murad

About me

Fahad Murad is a junior doctor at ME Upper Abdominal Diseases, Karolinska University Hospital, and PhD student at CLINTEC, Division of Surgery and Oncology.

Doctoral project plan:
Clinical and Advanced Imaging Innovations for Response and Recurrence Assessment in Esophageal and Gastric Cancer
Study I. Early versus Delayed Endoscopic Response Evaluation After Neoadjuvant Chemoradiotherapy: A Substudy of the NeoRes II Trial
Study II. Radiomics-Based Assessment of Tumor Response to Neoadjuvant Chemoradiotherapy in Esophageal Cancer: A Study from the Stockholm NeoRes II Cohort
Study III. Diagnostic performance of FAPI PET/CT compared with contrast-enhanced CT for the detection of occult peritoneal metastases in gastric cancer
Study IV. Radiomics-based analysis of FAPI PET/CT for prediction of peritoneal recurrence and disease-free survival in gastric cancer

Journal article: DISEASES OF THE ESOPHAGUS. 2025;38(Supplement_1):doaf061.093
063. ROBOTIC ASSISTED MIMINALLY INVASIVE IVOR-LEWIS ESOPHAGECTOMY VERSUS CONVENTIONAL MINIMALLY INVASIVE IVOR-LEWIS ESOPHAGECTOMY
Kung C-H; Murad F; Blasa F; Polette-Stub D; Lindblad M; Nilsson M; Klevebro F; Rouvelas I
Article: JOURNAL OF ROBOTIC SURGERY. 2025;19(1):414
Robotic-assisted versus conventional minimally invasive esophagectomy: a retrospective cohort study from a high-volume center
Murad F; Blasa F; Stubb DP; Lindblad M; Klevebro F; Kung C-H; Rouvelas I
Article: DISEASES OF THE ESOPHAGUS. 2024;37(3):doad068
Management and outcomes in a consecutive series of patients with aero-digestive fistula at a tertiary gastro-esophageal surgery center
Murad F; Klevebro F; Henriksson G; Rouvelas I; Lindblad M; Nilsson M

Phd Student, Department of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology, Karolinska Institutet, 2026-2029