Tomaz Jagric
Maribor Medical School, Slovenia
Biography
Tomaz Jagric completed his MD and PhD from medicine and general surgery in Slovenia and Postdoctoral studies from Ljubljana Medical School. His main field of expertise is the upper gastrointestinal, hepatico-pancreato-billiary and laparoscopic gastric cancer surgery. He has been habilitated as assistant researcher on Maribor Medical School in Slovenia, and has since been working as the head researcher on many projects. Currently he is leading two projects “Flow cytometric detection of micrometastases in the sentinel lymph nodes of gastric cancer patients†and “Detection of Free tumor cells in abdominal lavage fluids of patients with advanced gastric cancer as a selection marker for hyperthermic intraoperative intraperitoneal chemotherapyâ€. He is also conducting several trails of negative pressure therapy in abdominal compartment syndrome as well as palliative rectal cancer stenting and stenting of malignant obstructions in gastric cancer patients.