Education and previous employments

1983 -  Graduated from University of Copenhagen as medical doctor (MD)

1994 -  Doctor of Medical Sciences (DMSc; dr.med.).The doctoral thesis: ”The microcirculation of the heart with special reference to the role of reactive oxygen metabolites in the microvascular reperfusion injury; University of Copenhagen,

1995 - Board certified specialist in General Internal Medicine

1997 - Board certified specialist in Cardiovascular Diseases (Cardiology)

2004-05 - Professor of Invasive Cardiac Electrophysiology, University of Copenhagen

Current employments and administrative functions

1998 - Chief Physician (consultant), Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital

2007 - Professor of Cardiac Arrhythmia, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen

2013 -  Coordinating Professor at the Heart Centre, Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen

2014 -  Deputy Head of Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Copenhagen

2015 -  Director of Laboratory of Molecular Cardiology (following Stig Haunsø), The Heart Centre, Rigshospitalet

Scientific Qualifications:

Research areas are focused on cardiac arrhythmias including: ion channel diseases, atrial fibrillation, genetics in

arrhythmia diseases, inflammation in arrhythmia, Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy, ICD treatment.

Supervisor on bachelor or master thesis projects for more than 30 students

Supervisor on 25 PhD projects (hereof 18 successfully completed)

Reviewer function for scientific journals (among others: Nature Reviews Cardiology, JACC, Circulation AE, European Heart Journal, Circ Res, Cardiovasc Res).

Publications:   

Author or co-author of more than 270 research papers in peer reviewed journals of which more than 220 are original

scientific publications. In addition, author of 16 book chapters or books.