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Kim Borsky
Clinical Research Fellow in Plastic Surgery
- DPhil student
I am a plastic surgery registrar, passionately pursuing a clinical academic career since 2015, with a growing interest in clinical outcome methods in trials. I have currently taken time out of my clinical training to pursue a DPhil in musculoskeletal sciences at the University of Oxford.
My work centres around outcome research, particularly in surgery, with a focus on the performance of Patient-Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) in clinical trials. I use psychometric techniques to evaluate and improve a PROMs performance and through that, contribute to providing more granular and robust data. This work is embedded in the Surgical Interventions and Trials Unit within NDORMS and the Oxford-Berlin Partnership for Enhancing Measurement in Clinical Trials.
Previously, I studied Medicine at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, where I also started my clinical training. In 2020, I moved to the UK to join the NHS for Core Surgical Training. As of 2022, I am a plastic surgery registrar in the Oxford Deanery. Simultaneously to my medical studies, I also completed a Bachelor's Degree in Economics at the University of Zurich and hope to combine my knowledge of health economics with my research on outcome methods. I have joined the University of Oxford as a Clarendon Scholar and have also received a fellowship from the Royal College of Surgeons to pursue my research.
Recent publications
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SCQOLIT-SF: A revised outcome measure for assessing patient-reported outcomes in non-melanoma skin cancers.
Journal article
Jarratt Barnham I. et al, (2025), J plast reconstr aesthet surg, 102, 159 - 166
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Trends in cutaneous melanoma mortality and incidence in European Union 15+ countries between 1990 and 2019.
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Wang XM. et al, (2025), J eur acad dermatol venereol
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A Qualitative Study of Patients' Lived Experiences of Free Tissue Transfer for Diabetic Foot Disease.
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Goodall RJ. et al, (2024), Plast reconstr surg glob open, 12
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Sex differences in adverse events from systemic treatments for psoriasis: A decade of insights from the Swiss Psoriasis Registry (SDNTT).
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Verardi F. et al, (2024), J eur acad dermatol venereol, 38, 719 - 731
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Structural validation of the Manchester-Oxford Foot Questionnaire for use in foot and ankle surgery.
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Goodall R. et al, (2024), Bone joint j, 106-B, 256 - 261