Shoaib Afzal
  • Source: Scopus
20052024

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Personal profile

Short presentation

My primary research interests are the epidemiology of major non-communicable diseases and mortality in the general population with special focus on cardiovascular disease and respiratory disease. For this purpose, I use high quality data from settings spanning general population cohorts, such as the Copenhagen General Population Study, to nationwide registry studies, while applying advanced epidemiological methods including causal inference approaches.

Fields of interest

Clinical epidemiology, genetic epidemiology, vitamin D, obstructive pulmonary disease, cardiovascular disease, obesity, use of metabolomics for prediction in cardiovascular and other diseases.

Teaching

2001 Anatomy II for medical students, Faculty of Health and Medical Science, University of Copenhagen (~70 hours of classroom teaching).

2009-2010 Tutor in Clinical Pharmacology for medical students (~50 hours of classroom teaching). 

Ongoing 

2020- Lectures in clinical biochemistry for medical students

2020- Post-graduate courses in research training for medical doctors

Education/Academic qualification

Medicine, DMSc, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences

Award Date: 17 Jan 2019

Medicine, ph.d., Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences

Award Date: 21 Oct 2011

Medicine, MD, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences

Award Date: 18 Jan 2005

External positions

Chief physician, Clinical Biochemistry, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Denmark

2017 → …

Staff specialist, Clinical Biochemistry, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Denmark

20162017

Senior Resident in Clinical Biochemistry, Rigshospitalet, Denmark

20142016

Resident in Clinical Biochemistry, Herlev Hospital, Denmark

20112014

Reasearch position, PhD student, Laboratory of Clinical Pharmacology, Rigshospitalet, Denmark

20072011

First year Resident in Pathology, Aarhus/Aalborg Hospital, Denmark

20062007

House job, Herlev Hospital, Denmark

20052006

Keywords

  • Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences
  • Clinical Epidemiology
  • Epidemiology
  • Genetic Epidemiology
  • Clinical Biochemistry
  • Lung Disease
  • Cardiovascular disease
  • Vitamin D

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