Professor, Consultant in Anaesthesia
Department of Anaesthesia
Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshospitalet
Denmark
Born 1959. Medical Doctor, University of Copenhagen 1985.
Accredited specialist in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care 1994.
European Diploma in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care 1996.
Since 2000 Consultant in anaesthesia, Department of Anaesthesia, Center of Head and Orthopaedics, Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshospitalet.
Since 2010 Research Professor in Anaesthesiology and Emergency Medicine.
Ph.D. dissertation 1999: Postoperative Cognitive Dysfunction in Elderly Patients.
Medical Doctoral Thesis 2007: Postoperative cognitive dysfunction - incidence, risk factors, and correlation with biochemical markers for brain damage.
Publications: 156 articles and 16 editorials. Author of 7 chapters in textbooks, including “Cognitive dysfunction and other long-term complications of surgery and anesthesia”. Chapter 89, p 2805-19, Miller’s Anesthesia 7th. Edition.
Previously supervisor for 12 Ph.D. students and currently supervisor for 4 Ph.D. students.
Member of Editorial Board for Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica since 2002, Assistant editor-in-chief 2008-2009, Editor-in-Chief for Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica since 2009.