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Education

• 2020, September 29, Master in Cardiovascular Pathology, University of Padua, Italy
• 2017. January 17, Specialist in Forensic Pathology, University of Copenhagen (UCPH)
• 2010, March 11, Ph.D. degree, thesis title “Regulation of Cardiac Conduction
• 2005, January 17, Master of Medicine, UCPH, January 17

Employment

Current position

• Consultant, Section of Forensic Pathology, UCPH, September 2018-

Previous positions              

• Medical Assistant, Section of Forensic Pathology, Department of Forensic Medicine, UCPH, January 2017-August 2018
• Alternate trainee in forensic medicine and doctor in unclassified positions, Section of Forensic Pathology, Department of Forensic Medicine, UCPH and Department of Pathology, Rigshospitalet and Herlev Hospital, Denmark, July 2010 – December 2016
• Medical secretary, 12/15 hours/week, “Retslægerådet”, 2013-2015
• Rotation doctor, Orthopaedic Surgery Department, Bispebjerg Hospital and Medical Department, cardiology and Endocrinology Clinic, Frederiksberg Hospital, 2009-2012
• Research assistant, PhD student and academic assistant, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Lab of Professor Niels-Henrik Holstein-Rathlou, UCPH, 2005-2009

Other qualifications

Three weeks professional stay April 2024 training cardiovascular pathology diagnostics and participating in cardiovascular research in The Cardiac Risk in the Young (CRY), Cardiac Pathology Unit, Cardiovascular & Genomics Research Institute, City St. George, University of London

Management

• Educational leadership as a consultant forensic pathologist, September 2018- 
• Experimental manager in the exploratory COVID-19 autopsy study “Translational deep phenotyping of deaths related to the COVID-19 pandemic”, based at Section of Forensic Pathology, Department of Forensic Medicine, UCPH, since May 2025-
• Co-supervision of one current Ph.D. student and one bachelor student. Previously one Ph.D. student and two master students
• Participating in the course “Leading Research”, UCPH, 2024/2025 

Organizational contribution - Department of Forensic Medicine, UCPH

Participation in FOSFOR (Research Strategy Forum), 2022-

Participation in FORUM40 (Forum for managers and middle managers), 2022-

Organizational contribution - Interdisciplinary and International forums

• Councilor in Association of European Cardiovascular Pathology (AECVP), 2025-
• Associate Editor, APMIS, Journal of Pathology, Microbiology & Immunology, 2025-
• Board member of the Danish Society of Forensic Medicine, 2013-2021
• Co-Organizer of the annual course for forensic medicine, interdisciplinary meeting on sharp violence, The Danish Society of Forensic Medicine, 2015 

Selected scientific presentations

Oral presentation: Angiotensin II does not acutely regulate conduction velocity in rat atrial tissue. DARC (Danish Arrhythmia Research Centre), Copenhagen, DK, January 2009

Poster: Type II diabetes reduces conduction velocity in the right ventricle of the rat. Olsen KB, Braunstein TH, Axelsen L, Ploug T, Holstein-Rathlou NH, Nielsen MS. Joint Meeting of the Scandinavian and German Physiological Societies, Copenhagen, DK, March 2010

Poster: Unexplained deaths among mentally in psychotropic medication – a retrospective study in the nationwide project “Survive”. Olsen KB, Kanters J, Christiansen M, Ottesen GL, 18th Nordic Conference on Forensic Medicine, Århus, DK, June 2012

Poster: Unexplained death in psychiatric patients treated with psychoactive drugs – a retrospective study of medico-legal material with focus on genetic arrhythmia. Olsen KB, Kanters JK, Hedley P, Linnet K, Ottesen GL, Banner JL, Christiansen M, AECVP, 6^th biennial meeting of the Association for European Cardiovascular Pathology, Paris, France, October 2014

Poster: The great imitator. Olsen KB, Banner J. AECVP, 7^th biennial meeting of the Association for European Cardiovascular Pathology, Cologne, Germany, September 2016

Invited oral presentation: Challenges in the autopsy diagnosis of myocarditis. 34^th European Congress of Pathology, Basel, Switzerland, on behalf of Professor Jytte Banner, September 2022

Invited oral presentation - case presentation: ACM diagnostics. 35^th European Congress of Pathology, Dublin, Ireland, September 2023

Invited oral presentation: Advanced identification of pathogenic markers – the ischemic and diabetic heart. Co-presentation with Pernille Heimdal Holm, 36^th European Congress of Pathology, Florence, Italy, September 2024.

Invited oral presentation. Modern Ancillary Methods to Detect Myocardial Injuries at Autopsy. 37^th European Congress of Pathology, Vienna, Autria, September, 2025 

Teaching

Substantial teaching experience with lecturing and class teaching of medical students in forensic pathology, trainees in training courses in forensic pathology, police students in medicolegal external examination, clinicians in autopsy and forensic pathology and Ph.D.-students in Ph.D.-course in cardiovascular disease.

Completion of the course Teaching and Learning in Higher Education Program (UP), UCPH, 2023

Primary fields of research

Cardiovascular pathology, sudden cardiac death, COVID-19

Short presentation

Kristine Boisen Olsen’s research is focused on cardiovascular pathology, sudden cardiac death, cardiometabolomic diseases and COVID-19. Overall, the research aims to link the autopsy to clinical and basic research aiming to develop on diagnostics and understanding of disease development in cardiac death, cardiometabolomic diseases and infection with SARS-CoV-2. She is part of a research project done in collaboration with Professor Jacob Tfelt-Hansen on sudden arrhythmic death syndrome, a heterogenous disease unit where some of these tragic deaths can be explained by hereditary arrhythmic disorders, e.g. ionchannel diseases and structural cardiomyopathies, but also a part where the etiology cannot be determined even after molecular autopsy. The research project aims on improving the phenotyping of these deaths in conjunction with genotyping to improve the understanding of the pathophysiology and the molecular markers behind these tragic deaths. This project is done in collaboration with Department of Cardiology, Rigshospitalet, Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Copenhagen (UCPH), and Cardiac Risk in the Young (CRY), City St. George, University of London as well as Victoria Institute of Forensic Medicine, Department of Forensic Medicine, Monash University, Australia. She is co-supervisor on a current PhD project investigating biochemical and pathological heart changes in diabetic cardiomyopathy and ischemic heart disease. Since May 2025 she has been experimental manager in the exploratory COVID-19 autopsy study “Translational deep phenotyping of deaths related to the COVID-19 pandemic”, a multidisciplinary ongoing research study on infection with SARS-CoV-2, managed in collaboration with Department of Pathology, Rigshospitalet and Statens Serum Institut.

Kristine Boisen Olsen is currently employed consultant at the Section of Forensic Pathology she is associated with the team working with autopsies and is part of the Cardiovascular Team daily working with the diagnostics of sudden cardiac death and being part of the multidisciplinary team with cardiologists and clinical geneticists, led by Professor Jacob Tfelt-Hansen, ensuring that next of kin is referred to genetic and clinical follow-up.

Knowledge of languages

Danish, english