Dr Miranda Kusters specializes in complex rectum and HIPEC operations and she has worked in various centres around the world, such as Japan, New York and Sao Paulo, to conduct research. Dr Kusters is mainly involved in clinically applicable research, in which she is particularly interested in the mechanism by which rectal cancer comes back (local recurrence), so the pre-treatment, that is radiation with or without chemotherapy can optimized and the operation tailored to prevent local recurrence. She has also published extensively.