Professor Lars S RASMUSSEN

  • 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.