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Professor Liselotte Højgaard, MD, DMSc,
Liselotte Højgaard is a clinician scientist in Copenhagen, Denmark. She is a specialist in Clinical Physiology & Nuclear Medicine, and was Head of Department of Nuclear Medicine & PET, Rigshospitalet 2000-2023. She is professor at the University of Copenhagen and at DTU, The Technical University of Denmark.

She was Editor-in-Chief, Ugeskrift for Læger, the Danish Medical Journal, and member of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors, “The Vancouver Group”, where she co-authored the revision of the Uniform Requirements with new authorship criteria in 2000-2001.

Liselotte Højgaard is in the Scientific Council of ERC, and member of the Gender and Diversity Working Group. She was President of EMRC The European Medical Research Councils, ESF, Strasbourg, 2006-2012, and Chair of the Danish National Research Foundation 2013-2018.

She was member of Novo Nordisk Foundation, Board of Directors, 2018-2025, and is member of the Board of Trustees of Die Robert Bosch Stiftung in Germany. She holds a Knighthood in Denmark, first order,  and is Chevalier de la légion d’honneur in France. Her research focuses on pathophysiology, nuclear medicine, and AI, and on the history of nuclear medicine.

She is elected member of The Academy of Technical Sciences, and The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters.

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Klinik for Klinisk Fysiologi, Nuklearmedicin & PET
Rigshospitalet, Københavns Universitet og DTU
Tlf.: +45 3545 4215/1792. E-mail: [email protected]

Født i København 1957, student Birkerød Statsskole 1975, læge Københavns Universitet 1982,
speciallæge i klinisk fysiologi og nuklearmedicin 1990, dr. med. Københavns Universitet 1992.
INSEAD Fontainebleau, lederkursus AWIRA 2001-2002.

Nuværende

• Klinikchef, Rigshospitalets Klinik for Klinisk Fysiologi, Nuklearmedicin & PET fra 2000: Global
• Excellence, 160 videnskabelige artikler om året, 120.000 undersøgelser og 250 ansatte. https://goo.gl/v634er
• Klinisk professor i medicin og teknologi, Københavns Universitet, Det Sundhedsvidenskabelige Fakultet, Institut for Klinisk Medicin.
• Adjungeret professor, DTU, Danmarks Tekniske Universitet.
• Formand for bestyrelsen for Danmarks Grundforskningsfond. http://issuu.com/dnrf/docs/dnrf-annual-report-2014

Forskning

• >200 forskningspublikationer i gastroenterologi, patofysiologi, nuklearmedicin & PET. Totalt 350 publikationer, heri inkluderet artikler om forskningspolitik, metodologi, strategi etc.
• Inviteret foredragsholder: >100 internationalt, 20 nationale og internationale bogkapitler.
• Vejleder for 30 PhD-, bachelor- og masterkandidater.
• Bedømmer af talrige master-, PhD- og dr. med. afhandlinger i Danmark og internationalt.
• Rådgiver og peer reviewer for MRC, London; Guy’s & St. Thomas, London; DKFZ, Heidelberg; Vetenskabsrådet, Sverige m.fl.
• Præsident for Det Medicinske Selskab i København, grundlagt 1772, fra 2000-2002.
• Medlem af Videnskabernes Selskab, ATV, the European Academy for Cancer Sciences, the European Cancer Concord og EANM, SNM samt DSKFNM.

Bestyrelser og rådgivning
Bestyrelsesformand Danmarks Grundforskningsfond.
Medlem Kronprins Frederiks og Kronprinsesse Marys Fond.
Chair, EU Horizon 2020, Advisory Group, Health, Demographic Change and Wellbeing.
Medlem af Conseil d’Administration, INSERM, Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale, (F).
Medlem af Olav Thon Stiftelsen, Fagrådet for den internationale forskningspris, Norge.
Copenhagen Congres Advisory Board, Bestyrelsen Arvid Nilssons Fond, Bestyrelsen Tagea Brandts legat, Niels Bohr Arkivet, Science Advisory Board og VL13.
Tidligere chefredaktør Ugeskrift for Læger, 1996-2002 og medlem/Chair for Vancouver-gruppen; The International Committee of Medical Journal Editors, red. Bibliotek for Læger, Nordisk Medicin
Tidligere formand for the European Medical Research Councils, ESF, Strasbourg, 2006-2012

Priser og æresbevisninger
Minister Erna Hamiltons Ærespris for Videnskab og Kunst 2000. Specialet Klinisk Fysiologi og Nuklearmedicins ærespris 2001. Medicoprisen 2004. Niels A. Lassen Prisen 2005. Klein Prisen 2010. Ib Henriksens Forskningspris 2011. Ridder af Dannebrog 2007. Ridder af Den Franske Æreslegion 2015.

Mulige interessekonflikter

• Prof. Liselotte Højgaard serves as member of the ERC, Scientific Council, and is Vice-President elect for Life Science.
• She serves on the Board of Directors of Die Robert Bosch Stiftung, Germany, The Science Advisory Board, BOSCH Health Campus, Stuttgart, Germany
• Member of The Scientific Advisory Board, Uppsala University
• Member of the Scientific Advisory Board, Olav Thon Foundation, Norway.
• Advisor for Die Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft, Austria.
• Prof. Liselotte Højgaard serves as Chair of the Board of Tagea Brandt’s Foundation
• Member of the Board of Arvid Nilssons Foundation, member of the Board of the BRF Foundation.
• Serves as member of the International Advisory Board of HALRIC, Hanseatic Life Science Research Infrastructure Consortium.
• Serves as member of the International Advisory Board of Beta. Health, Denmark
• Serves as Denominator, Queen Ingrid’s College Residences, London. 

Liselotte Højgaard serves as editor, www.lex.dk, the Danish national encyclopedia, with special responsibility for the physician biographies.