Jane Miranda Blazeby is a professor of surgical medicine at the University of Bristol and in 2021 she was elected a fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences. She is known for her work on the quality of life experienced by people following surgery.

Education and career

Blazeby has a BSc (1985), an M.B. (1998), and an M.D. (1999) from the University of Bristol. Blazeby also holds an MSc in Epidemiology and Public Health from the University of London (2005).^[1] As of 2006 she is a professor of surgery at the University of Bristol

Career

In 2000, Blazeby was awarded a Medical Research Council Clinician Scientist award to investigate principles and practices of outcome measures in surgical oncology.^[2] She is also known for her work on patient-reported outcomes^[3] and research into optional wound dressings following surgery.^[4]

Selected publications

As of 2022 Blazeby has an h-index of 87 with over 28000 citations to her research.^[5]

• Williamson, Paula R; Altman, Douglas G; Blazeby, Jane M; Clarke, Mike; Devane, Declan; Gargon, Elizabeth; Tugwell, Peter (December 2012). "Developing core outcome sets for clinical trials: issues to consider". Trials. 13 (1): 132. doi:10.1186/1745-6215-13-132. PMC 3472231. PMID 22867278.
• Donovan, Jenny L.; Hamdy, Freddie C.; Lane, J. Athene; Mason, Malcolm; Metcalfe, Chris; Walsh, Eleanor; Blazeby, Jane M.; Peters, Tim J.; Holding, Peter; Bonnington, Susan; Lennon, Teresa; Bradshaw, Lynne; Cooper, Deborah; Herbert, Phillipa; Howson, Joanne; Jones, Amanda; Lyons, Norma; Salter, Elizabeth; Thompson, Pauline; Tidball, Sarah; Blaikie, Jan; Gray, Catherine; Bollina, Prasad; Catto, James; Doble, Andrew; Doherty, Alan; Gillatt, David; Kockelbergh, Roger; Kynaston, Howard; Paul, Alan; Powell, Philip; Prescott, Stephen; Rosario, Derek J.; Rowe, Edward; Davis, Michael; Turner, Emma L.; Martin, Richard M.; Neal, David E. (13 October 2016). "Patient-Reported Outcomes after Monitoring, Surgery, or Radiotherapy for Prostate Cancer". New England Journal of Medicine. 375 (15): 1425–1437. doi:10.1056/NEJMoa1606221. PMC 5134995. PMID 27626365.
• Blazeby, J. M.; Conroy, T.; Hammerlid, E.; Fayers, P.; Sezer, O.; Koller, M.; Arraras, J.; Bottomley, A.; Vickery, C. W.; Etienne, P. L.; Alderson, D. (1 July 2003). "Clinical and psychometric validation of an EORTC questionnaire module, the EORTC QLQ-OES18, to assess quality of life in patients with oesophageal cancer". European Journal of Cancer. 39 (10): 1384–1394. doi:10.1016/S0959-8049(03)00270-3. ISSN 0959-8049.

Honors and awards

In 2021 she was elected as a fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences.^[6]