Giola Santoni

Giola Santoni

Statistician | Docent
Visiting address: Blombäcks väg 23, plan 4, 17177 Stockholm
Postal address: K1 Molekylär medicin och kirurgi, K1 MMK Övre GI-kirurgi, 171 77 Stockholm
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About me

  • I am a biostatistician at the Upper Gastrointestinal Surgery group at MMK.

    I have a background in engineering and statistics.

    I received a PhD in Mechanical Engineering and a certificate in 
    Applied Statistics from the University of South Carolina, USA. I also
    obtained a PhD in Epidemiology from Karolinska Institutet.

    I received from the University of South Carolina, USA the Outstanding Dissertation Award for 
    Mathematics, Physical Sciences and Engineering.

Research

  • I am involved in research studies, collaborating with researchers on
    statistical analyses, methodological developments in survival data analysis,
    and guiding PhD students with methodological aspects of their research
    projects.

Teaching

  • 2020-2025: Study Design in Clinical Research - KI course 2980 (Course 
    director and teacher)
    2018-2025: Research School for Clinicians in Epidemiology. Biostatistics 1,  
    2, 3, 4. Laboratories
    2018: Geriatric epidemiology: Health assessments in old ages: Measurements
    of health in aging
    2015, 2017: Application of Epidemiological Approaches to Aging Research

Articles

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Grants

Employments

  • Statistician, Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Karolinska Institutet, 2017-
  • Project Manager, General Electric (Italy), 2000-
  • Project engineer, Ingegneria dei Sistemi (Italy), 1999-
  • Product Engineer, Magna international, 2001-2003

Degrees and Education

  • Docent, Karolinska Institutet, 2025
  • Degree Of Doctor Of Philosophy, Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, Karolinska Institutet, 2017
  • PhD, Mechanical Engineering, Fundamental Studies In the Lamb-Wave Interaction Between Piezoelectric Wafer Active Sensor and Host Structure During Structural Health Monitoring, Mechanical Engineeing, University of South Carolina, 2010

Distinction and awards

  • Outstanding Dissertation Award for Mathematics, Physical Sciences and Engineering, 2010

Supervision

  • Onyineychi Duru, Risk and survival of gastric cancer after proton pump inhibitor use and Helicobacter pylori eradication, 2023
  • Johan Åkerström, Oesophageal adenocarcinoma after antireflux surgery, obesity surgery, and anti-carcinogenic medications, 2022
  • Anna-Klara Wiklund, The Nordic Helicobacter Pylori Eradication Project: Cancer risk after Helicobacter pylori therapy, 2021
  • Manar Yanes, Antireflux surgery in the prevention of supra-esophageal cancer and mortality, 2019
  • Jiaojiao Zheng, Diabetes, metformin and gastric adenocarcinoma, 2017

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