Curriculum Vitae:
JENS SANDAHL CHRISTIANSEN
Date of birth: September 8, 1948
Place of birth: Aalborg, Denmark
1967:
General Certificate of Education, Aalborg.
April 1968-July 1970:
Military Service
January 1977:
University of Copenhagen School of Medicine, M.D.
February 1977-January 1980:
House Officer, Steno Memorial Hospital, Copenhagen.
February 1980-January 1982:
Research Fellow, University of Copenhagen.
February 1982-August 1982:
Registrar, Surgical Department D, Copenhagen County Hospital, Glostrup.
September 1982-August 1983:
Registrar, Medical Department F, Copenhagen County Hospital, Glostrup.
September 1983-August 1984:
Registrar, Medical Department M (endocrinology), Kommunehospitalet, Aarhus.
September 1984-April 1985:
Registrar, Neurological Department F, Kommunehospitalet, Aarhus.
May 1985-December 1987:
Senior Registrar, Medical Department M (endocrinology), Kommunehospitalet, Aarhus.
January 1988-December 1988:
Senior Registrar, Medical Department C (Nephrology), Kommunehospitalet, Aarhus.
January 1989-June 1989:
Senior Registrar, Medical Department M (endocrinology), Kommunehospitalet, Aarhus.
July 1989:
Consultant, Medical Department M (endocrinology), Kommunehospitalet, Aarhus.
Academic appointments:
May 1985-January 1989:
Lecturer, University of Aarhus.
February 1989-June 1989:
Senior lecturer (assistant professor), University of Aarhus.
July 1989-Marts 1993:
Associate professor, University of Aarhus.
April 1993-:
Professor of Medicine, University of Aarhus
Academic awards:
- 1978: Awarded University of Copenhagen gold medal for the monograph: "Is There a Correlation Between Smoking and Diabetic Angiopathy?"
- 1984: Dr. Med. Sci., University of Copenhagen for the thesis: "On the Pathogenesis of the Increased Glomerular Filtration Rate in Short-Term Insulin-Dependent Diabetes".
- 1987: Jacob E. Poulsen Prize from The Scandinavian Society for the Study of Diabetes.
- 1998: Research award from Den Danske Frimurerorden.
- 2000: DANDY Research Award.
- 2001: Fellow of The Royal College of Physicians of Ireland (FRCPI)
- 2005: Clinical Endocrinology Trust Visiting Professor to the UK
- 2005: Honorary Member of Polish Endocrine Society
- 2006: Visiting Professor to University of Virginia Medical School (Charlottesville)
- 2007: Robert Blizzard Lecturer 2007, Lawson Wilkins Pediatric Endocrine Society
Committee appointments and membership:
- 1987-1991: Board member of the Danish Endocrine Society.
- 1987-1992: Board member and Secretary of the European Diabetic Nephropathy Study Group.
- 1989-: Elected member of the Endocrine Society (USA).
- 1989-: Elected member of the European Society for Pediatric Endocrinology.
- 1990: Secretary General for the 26th Annual Meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes, Copenhagen, September 1990.
- 1992-: Council member and secretary of the Growth Hormone Research Society.
- 1994-1998: Council member, European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD).
- 1994-: Chairman Aarhus University Hospital´s Unit for Good Clinical Practice (GCP).
- 2002- : Editor-in-Chief, GH&IGF Research.
- 2002-2006: Member of the editorial board, Clinical Endocrinology
- 2003-2006: Member of the Executive Committee (treasurer) of the European Federation of Endocrine Societies (EFES).
- 2006-: Member of the Executive Committee (treasurer) of European Society of Endo- crinology (ESE).
