Kort præsentation

Anne-Mette Lebech (AML) is a Clinical Professor of Infectious diseases with special focus on Tick-borne diseases.

Affiliated with Department of Infectious diseases, the Heart Center at Copenhagen University Hospital – Rigshospitalet as a consultant.

Graduated from the University of Copenhagen as a medical doctor (MD) in 1989, PhD in 1994 and Doctor of Medical Sciences (DMSc; dr.med.) in 2002.

Board-certified specialist in General Internal Medicine and Infectious diseases.

Research is primarily focused on infectious diseases e.g. tick-borne disease, HIV and pyogenic vertebral osteomyelitis.

AML is the head of Unit of Tick-borne diseases, Department of Infectious diseases, Rigshospitalet.

Expertise

• Tick-borne diseases
• HIV and cardiovascular disease;
• HIV in women living with HIV;
• Lyme borrelioses;
• Neuroinfections

Primære forskningsområder

• Tick-borne diseases
• HIV and cardiovascular disease
• HIV in women living with HIV
• Lyme borreliosis

Aktuel forskning

Prevalence and pathophysiology of cardiovascular disease in HIV positive patients

• To study the prevalence and pathophysiology of atherosclerotic disease in HIV+ in order to plan how to screen, monitor and treat these patients to minimize future cardiovascular events:
• Comparison of the prevalence of endothelial dysfunction (82Rb-PET myocardial flow reserve) in women and males with HIV infection and no symptoms of CVD.
• To compare subclinical atherosclerotic disease in HIV infected women with and without CMV co-infection.
• Prediction of myocardial infarction in HIV+ adults by endothelial and inflammatory markers in plasma.

Lyme borreliosis

• Long-term survival, health, and social functioning in patients diagnosed with European Lyme neuroborreliosis during 1985-2016

HIV in women, gender differences in HIV and HPV/Cervical dysplasia

• Incidence of cervical dysplasia and cervical cancer in women living with HIV in Denmark: comparison with the general population
• Assessment of mode of delivery and predictors of acute caesarean section among women living with HIV in a matched-pair setting with women from the general population in Denmark, 2002-2014.

Mulige interessekonflikter

Potential conflicts of interests

• Previous advisory board member for: GSK, Pfizer
• Unrestricted company research funding: Gilead Science
• Support for attending meetings: Chiesi, Advanz, MSD, Gilead
• Previous speaker fee from: Gilead, GSK, Pfizer

Non-profit research funding

Intereg, Danmarks Frie Forskningsfond, Rigshospitalet, Lundbeck foundation, Regionernes Medicin- og behandlingspulje, Novo Nordisk, Sygesikring Danmark, Sven Andersen Fond, AP Møllers foundation, Stibo, Åse og Ejnar Danielsens