I am professor of Neurology and professor of Experimental and Clinical Pain Research at AU. I was founder and head of Danish Pain Research Center at AU and recently director of the International Diabetic Neuropathy Consortium (IDNC) at AU. Currently I am heading a research group of Danish, English and Greenlandic scientists on diabetic neuropathy in Greenland.
I have been a clinical clinical scientist in neurology for more than 40 years. My focus is neuropathic pain, which is pain due to due to injury or diseases affecting the peripheral or central nervous system. I study the causes of pain. the clinical characteristics dignostic issues and the management of pain. The last 10-15 years my interest has been directed towards diabetic neuropathy and the pain associated with diabetes. Currently the research is centered around diabetic neuropathy and pain in Greenland.
For several years I have had pregraduate and postgraduate teaching courses in clinical neurology, particularly in neuropathic pain. The teaching has included seminars, workshops, seminars, invited lectures held both nationally and internationally at universities and cogresses. I hve written textbooks and chapters in textbooks about neurological disorders and pain. I supervise postdocs, phd, Msc and BSc students.
I collaborate today with Copenhagen University, Steno Diabetes Center Copenhagen, Steno Diabets Center Aarhus and Steno Diabetes Center Greenland. Within the IDNC consortium I have for the last 10 years collaborated with University of Michigan, University of Oxford and South Danish University. I have previously collaborated with scientists in US, Europe and SouthEast Asia as well as with private companies Currently I am writing for Lex.dk
In Denmark I have among other activities been chair of the postgraduate Education in Neurology, member of the Danish Medical Rsearch Council, member of the Danish Medical Legal Committee for 16 years and chair of the Foundation for Neurological Research in DK. Internationally I have been member and President for Scandinavian Association for the Study of Pain (SASP), and for The International Association for the Study of pain For IASP I have neen liaison for South-East Asia.
My current research is diabetic neuropathy and pain in Greenland.
