Dr Christensen

Editor-in-Chief: Dr Henrik Toft Sørensen

Dr Sørensen is a specialist in internal medicine and hepatology. Trained at several major Danish hospitals, he acted as a full-time clinician until 1994 and part time until 2003. Dr. Sørensen has conducted research on several epidemiological topics, in particular within clinical epidemiology. His main research interest areas are: a) Determinants for prognosis of severe diseases, in particular venous thromboembolism, gastrointestinal diseases and cancer; and b) Observational studies of outcome and safety of medical interventions, in particular drugs and procedures.

Henrik Toft Sørensen is professor of clinical epidemiology and is founder of the Department of Clinical Epidemiology at Aarhus University, Denmark, which was established in 2000. Henrik Toft Sørensen is head of the department and has since 2004 been adjunct professor of epidemiology at Boston University and visiting professor at Dartmouth Medical School since 1999.

Over the last decade Dr. Sørensen has built up several large databases and cohorts available for epidemiological research.  He has extensive experience in projects carried out as part of EU or NIH programmes in collaboration with researchers from, among others, the US, Sweden, Norway Thailand and France.

Dr. Sørensen has been part of the review committee of several professorships in different countries and has been supervisor for more than 35 doctoral students at universities in Denmark, the US and Thailand. He has also headed applications for international funding and is reviewer for more than 60 international journals, including the Lancet, JAMA, New England Journal of Medicine and BMJ.

Department of Clinical Epidemiology is part of the International Clinical Epidemiology Network as a Clinical Epidemiology Research Training Centre.