Professor Lars Pedersen

Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark

Lars Pedersen obtained his degree in statistics from the Department of Theoretical Statistics at Aarhus University in 1999 and earned a PhD degree from Aalborg University in 2009. He has been chief statistician at the Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Aarhus University Hospital since 2000. In 2003, he became associate professor in clinical biostatistics at Aarhus University and has been professor in clinical data science since 2012.

Dr. Pedersen has published peer-reviewed articles within the fields of clinical epidemiology and pharmacoepidemiology. He has been responsible for establishing and developing a system of high quality medical databases which are linkable by information from the Danish Civil Registration System. Dr. Pedersen is head of centre for biostatistics and data management at Department of Clinical Epidemiology. The centre employs 25 biostatisticians and data managers. Dr. Pedersen has developed and implemented epidemiologic designs and statistical methods in scientific epidemiological studies as well as in relation to monitoring quality of medical interventions in hospitals and drug safety in general. His research focuses on adverse drug effects and the prognoses of various diseases and he is the scientific manager of the department’s involvement in a number of European projects aimed at developing systems to detect adverse effects of drugs at an early stage.

In addition, Dr. Pedersen is the lead statistician on several research projects with international collaborators from Stanford University, California and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.

Updated 15 September 2023