Name: Liselotte Højgaard (e-mail)
Title: MD, DMSc
• Head of Department of Clinical Physiology, Nuclear Medicine & PET, Rigshospitalet.
• Professor in Medicine and Technology at University of Copenhagen and Adj. Professor DTU, Technical University of Denmark.
• Chair of the Danish National Research Foundation.
- Area of interest
- Activities
- Education
- List of publications
- CV
Liselotte Højgaard is Head of Department of Clinical Physiology, Nuclear Medicine & PET, Rigshospitalet and Professor in Medicine and Technology at the University of Copenhagen with clinical responsibility for the education as bioengineer in Medicine and Technology given in collaboration with the Technical University of Denmark, DTU, where she is also Adj. Professor in advanced imaging.
Liselotte Højgaard is Chairman of the Board of the Danish National Research Foundation and President of Copenhagen Research Forum.
Liselotte Højgaard is specialist in clinical physiology and nuclear medicine with research in PET scanning for oncology, pediatrics and methodology. 200 peer review publications and 150 other science related articles.
Professor Liselotte Højgaard, Head of Department, is Chair of the Danish Research Foundation.
Member, Conseil d'Administration, INSERM, L'Institut National de la Sante et de la Recherdes Medicales, France.
She represents the University of Copenhagen and Rigshospitalet in the program, MSc in Medicine and Technology in cooperation with The Technical University of Denmark (DTU).
Member of ATV "The Danish Academy of Technical Sciences".
Member of the advisory boards: Wonderful Copenhagen, Medico Innovation, Arvid Nilssons Foundation and Tagea Brandt.
Born in Copenhagen 1957, Baccalaureate Denmark 1975, MD University of Copenhagen 1982. Clinical education Copenhagen University hospitals in medical gastroenterology and clinical physiology & nuclear medicine. Specialist in clinical physiology & nuclear medicine 1990. Doctor of Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen 1991. Consultant Hvidovre Hospital 1994, Dept. of Clinical Physiology & Nuclear medicine. Consultant Rigshospitalet 1998, Dept. of Clinical Physiology, Nuclear Medicine and PET. Head of Department/Klinikchef from 2000. Staff 150 and 40,000 patient investigations per year. 120 peer review publications annually.
Previous Editor-in-chief Ugeskrift for Læger, the national medical journal in Denmark 1996-2002. Previous Member of the Vancouver group (ICMJE), Chair in 2000 when the authorship criteria were changed.
Research active since medical school in medical technology related to gastroenterology, pathophysiology, clinical physiology, nuclear medicine and PET, including supervision of PhD candidates, research evaluation and peer review, also internationally, 200 peer review publications & 150 other publications. Previous Chair of EMRC 2006-2012, previous Chair of EU FP7 Health, SAB, 2010-2012.
The publication list can be downloaded here as a *PDF file: PUBLICATIONS
1. Fischer BM, Lassen U, Højgaard L. PET-CT in preoperative staging of lung cancer. N Engl J Med. Mar 2011;364(10):980-1.
2. Andersen JB, Mortensen J, Bech BH, Højgaard L, Borgwardt L. First experiences from Copenhagen with paediatric single photon emission computed tomography/computed tomography. Nucl Med Commun. 2011 May;32(5):356-62.
3. Søgaard R, Fischer BM, Mortensen J, Højgaard L, Lassen U. Preoperative staging of lung cancer with PET/CT: cost-effectiveness evaluation alongside a randomized controlled trial. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging. 2011 May;38(5):802-9.
4. Fischer BM, Mortensen J, Hansen H, Vilmann P, Larsen SS, Loft A, Berthelsen AK, Ravn J, Clement-sen P, Høegholm A, Larsen KR, Dirksen A, Skov BG, Krasnik M, Højgaard L, Lassen U. Multimodal-ity approach to mediastinal staging in non-small cell lung cancer. Faults and benefits of PET-CT: a randomised trial. Thorax. 2011 Apr;66(4):294-300.
5. Olesen OV, Svarer C, Sibomana M, Keller S, Holm S, Jensen J, Andersen F, Højgaard L. A Movable Phantom Design for Quantitative Evaluation of Motion Correction Studies on High Resolution PET Scanners. Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on, vol. 57, nr. 3, 1116-1124, 2010
6. Olesen OV, Paulsen RR, Højgaard L, Roed B, Larsen R. Motion tracking in narrow spaces. A structured light approach. Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2010, ser. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, T. Jiang, N. Navab, J.P. Pluium and M.A. Viergever Eds., vol. 6363. Springer 2010, 253-260
7. Olesen OV, Paulsen RR, Højgaard L. Automatic Thresholding for Frame-Repositioning Using External Tracking in PET Brain Imaging. 2010 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record (MIC), IEEE, 2010
8. Olesen OV, Jørgensen MR, Paulsen RR, Højgaard L, Roed B, Larsen R.Structured light 3D tracking system fo rmeasuring motions in PET brain imaging. Proc. SPIE Medical Imaging, 2010;7625:.76250X
9. Dejanovic D, Widding Høyer A, Mortensen J, Højgaard L.Symmetrical nail bed uptake on a (99m) Tc-HDP bone scan in a patient with Wegener’s granulomatosis. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging. 2010 Feb;37(2):410
10. Mortensen J, Oturai P, Højgaard L, Knigge U, Hansen CP, Martiny L, Rasmussen P, Kjaer A.Radionuclide therapy for neuroendocrine tumors. Ugeskr Læger. 2010 Oct 25;172(43):2950-3
The Curriculum Vitae can be downloaded here as a *PDF file: Liselotte_Højgaard_CV_Publications.pdf