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).

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