Peter Jepsen is a Consultant Hepatologist and Clinical Professor of Hepato-Epidemiology. His research uses epidemiologic methods to study chronic liver disease and its complications: incidence, prevention, early detection, and prognosis.
Peter Jepsen is the Clinical Professor of Hepato-Epidemiology, and he is a Consultant Hepatologist at the Department of Hepatology and Gastroenterology. His research focuses on alcohol-related liver disease and primary liver cancer (hepatocellular carcinoma [HCC] and cholangiocarcinoma), with a particular emphasis on clinical course, prevention, early diagnosis, and collaboration with primary care.
Peter Jepsen is currently the main supervisor for three PhD students who focus on prevention and early detection of chronic liver disease as well as collaboration with primary care.
Peter Jepsen is - as a researcher - a product of a long-standing collaboration between the Department of Clinical Epidemiology and the Department of Hepatology and Gastroenterology. He now collaborates with numerous colleagues at home and abroad and has a particularly well-established collaboration with colleagues at the University of Nottingham in England, where he is an Honorary Professor.
Clinical hepatology broadly, but with an emphasis on alcohol-related liver disease, cirrhosis, and hepatocellular carcinoma.
