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Dr Suzi Wolfram

Assistant Professor

Department: Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation

Suzi is originally from Germany where she completed her undergraduate studies in sport engineering and then went to Finland to study in the M.Sc. programme "Biology of Physical Activity at the University of Jyväskyla. After completing her Ph.D in biomechanics at Manchester Metropolitan University, she completed her postdoctoral training in the US at David Lipps' Musculoskeletal Biomechanics and Imaging Laboratory and the University of Michigan.

Suzi's overarching research interest aims to uncover the effects of cancer treatments on skeletal muscle and the mechanistic effects of physical therapy on skeletal muscle in oncologic populations. In particular, she seeks to understand how limitations in shoulder function in breast cancer survivors and how shoulder function can be restored with non-pharmaceutical treatments. Providing new mechanistic insights into these functional limitations and their treatment can support clinical decision-making and help to develop new post-treatment rehabilitation standards-of-care.

Suzi Wolfram

Breast cancer survivorship care

Shoulder health after breast cancer

Effects of cancer treatments on skeletal muscle

Mechanistic effects of physiotherapy

Musculoskeletal ultrasound imaging

  • Please visit the Pure Research Information Portal for further information
  • Prevalence and mechanisms of subacromial impingement in breast cancer patients after breast-conserving surgery and radiation therapy: a case-cohort study, Wolfram, S., Herriman, S., Lipps, D. 1 Feb 2025, In: Breast Cancer Research and Treatment
  • Changes in pectoralis major stiffness and thickness following radiotherapy for breast cancer: A 12-month follow-up case series, Wolfram, S., Takayesu, J., Pierce, L., Jagsi, R., Lipps, D. 1 Feb 2023, In: Radiotherapy and Oncology
  • Fully Automatic Thoracic Cavity Segmentation in Dynamic Contrast Enhanced Breast MRI Using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks, Berchiolli, M., Wolfram, S., Balachandran, W., Gan, T. 9 Sep 2023, In: Applied Sciences
  • The in vivo passive stretch response of the pectoralis major is region-specific, Wolfram, S., Lipps, D. 1 Dec 2023, In: Journal of Biomechanics
  • Elongation differences between the sub-tendons of gastrocnemius medialis and lateralis during plantarflexion in different frontal plane position of the foot, Wolfram, S., Hodson-Tole, E., Morse, C., Winwood, K., McEwan, I. 1 Jan 2020, In: Gait and Posture
  • Achilles tendon moment arm in humans is not affected by inversion/eversion of the foot: a short report, Wolfram, S., Morse, C., Winwood, K., Hodson-Tole, E., McEwan, I. 10 Jan 2018, In: Royal Society Open Science

PhD May 17 2017


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