Surgical Sciences

The Graduate Program in Surgical Sciences is a program under the Graduate School and is aimed specifically to graduate students in the field of surgical research science. Our vision is to create a graduate program that can facilitate science in the surgical field within the highest international level. Through courses and facilitation of research activities and networking, we want to make sure that the future scientists improve treatment for patients within the surgical field. Our aim is therefore to build a platform for surgical scientists, where students and supervisors benefit from a scientific environment of the highest level.

We want:

  • To facilitate expert administrative guidance to our PhD students.
  • To facilitate scientific and scholarly excellence.
  • To offer courses targeting surgical scientists.
  • To strengthen networks between universities, research institutions and industry.
  • To organise workshops and conferences.
  • To support the interaction between graduate students in the different fields of surgical research science.
  • To promote internationalisation through collaboration with PhD schools abroad.

 

Members of the steering committee for Surgical Sciences

Representing Professor

Professor Ismail Gögenur (Email)
I am dedicated to the development and implementation of new surgical treatments as well as teaching. My research activities have primarily focus on surgical pathophysiology. A major focus is on the developing treatment strategies in the perioperative period in order to improve short and long-term oncological outcome.

Gastrointestinal Surgery

Professor Lars Nannestad Jørgensen (Email). Professor of surgery and head of research at the Digestive Disease Center at Bispebjerg Hospital. Main scientific areas include surgical wound healing, complex abdominal wall hernias and postoperative complications. Involved as vice chairman of the Danish Hernia Database and international collaborative work on registries and clinical studies. Completed Danish multicenter studies on minimally surgical techniques in elective benign surgery.

MD, PhD Mahdi Alamili (Email)

Cardiothoracic Surgery 
Professor Rene Horsleben Petersen (Email)

Vascular Surgery

Associate Professor Jonas Eiberg, MD, Ph.D. (Email)

Jonas Eiberg is senior consultant in vascular surgery. Main research areas are simulation based education of vascular surgeons, risk prediction of abdominal aortic aneurysms and advanced 3D-ultrasound. Past chairman of the ESVS Academy, the world's fastest growing educational event within vascular surgery. For several years, managing Europe’s largest outpatient’s clinic and has received formal education in clinical as well as in research management. Jonas Eiberg is the current chairman of the Danish Society of Vascular Surgery, responsible for vascular training at CAMES, supervisor several PhD thesis’s, and author of app 70 peer-reviewed publications.

Plastic Surgery

Professor Lisbet Rosenkrantz Hölmich (Email

Head of the Research Unit at dept. of Plastic Surgery. Chairman of the Danish Melanoma Group and Database and board member of the Danish Breast Cancer Group and the Danish Multidisciplinary Cancer Groups. Main interest is quality in cancer surgery and focus is on melanoma and non-melanoma skin cancer and breast cancer; methods are clinical, translational, and register based studies. Special focus on new methods for diagnosis, follow-up and identification of recurrence. Specific areas include breast reconstruction and breast implant complications, lymphedema, abdominal wall reconstruction a.o. 

Urology

Associate Professor Nessn Azawi (Email

Senior consultant in urology. Main research areas are renal cancer treatment, diagnostic and follow up. A major focus on predicting urological cancer in early stage, using and developing new liquid biopsy biomarkers as well as machine learning technology. Interest in alternative treatment of urological disease like using Stem cell and ESWT technology. 

Gastroenterology and Hepatology
Professor Palle Bekker Jeppesen (Email) and Associate Professor Jakob Seidelin (Email)

Anesthesiology

Professor Kirsten Møller (Email)

As a young wannabe anaesthesiologist / intensivist, Kirsten inadvertently acquired extensive training in infectious diseases at Rigshospitalet’s Department of Infectious Diseases, while conducting the research that earned her a PhD in 2001 and a doctoral degree in 2007. She eventually specialized as an anaesthesiologist in 2007 and as an intensivist 2011, and hasn’t anaesthetized anybody for years. Since 2014, she has served as a Professor of Neuroanaesthesiology at the University of Copenhagen and as a consultant at the Department of Neuroanaesthesiology at Rigshospitalet. Her research focuses on understanding the physiology and pathophysiology of acute brain injury, using multimodal neuromonitoring.

Professor Ole Mathiesen (Email)

Professor in Anaesthesiology with a special focus on postoperative pain treatment. Consultant, Department of Anaesthesiology, Zealand University Hospital Køge. My main research focus is on optimized postoperative pain treatment documenting benefit and harm of combinations of analgesics for postoperative pain and rehabilitation. This includes a number of large RCTs and systematic reviews with meta- and trial sequential analyse

s to establish evidence-based treatments.

Ophthalmology

Lisbeth Jelveh Sandfeld (Email)

My main area of interest is pediatric ophthalmology, strabismus surgery, vision screening, and quality of life related to strabismus surgery. I am associate professor and senior consultant in Ophthalmology at Roskilde. I am dedicated to supervision and education of younger colleagues and head of national training program for residents in ophthalmology.

Ear, Nose & Throat Surgery/Otorhinolaryngology and Maxillofacial Surgery

Professor Preben Homøe (Email)

Preben Homøe, professor in Otorhinolaryngology with interest in evidence based surgery and quality of life and epidemiology within a wide range of the ORL disease spectrum. I have experience in patient related outcome measures, and questionnaires and validation. I have performed research in Greenland since the early 1990’ies and have therefore experience in field studies. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Improve presentation skills

Dates for 2025: TBA

Start Writing!

Date: 9 October 2024 

More information will follow. 

Challenges in the Randomized Clinical Trial

Dates for 2025: TBA


Surgical Pathophysiology

Date: 19, 20 and 21 march 2025

More information will follow.

 

 

Surgical Sciences Yearly Meeting 

Date: den 7 – 8 November 2024.

More information will follow