Our objective is to:
- Maintain and advance the Department of Clinical Research as a research institution that significantly influences patient care visibly.
We accomplish this by:
- Providing educating and conducting research at a distinguished international level in fields relevant to diagnosis, disease prevention, and treatment.
- Sharing research findings with the public, healthcare professionals, and decision-makers.
Our expertise lies in...
...innovative clinical research focused on diseases that affect individual citizens, the population, or society at large. Our goal is to comprehend the:
- Biomedical foundations
- Prevalence in the population
- Treatment, by integrating advanced biomedical and epidemiological research with intervention studies.
We engage in communiation and actively seek collaborations where we can contribute to driving possitive change.
Organisation
All departments at SDU are obligated to have a department council with the purpose of involving employees and students in significant decisions at the department level.
The department council is tasked with discussing and advising the institute's management on matters relevant to the department's development, organization, and finances.
Effective from April 1st 2025
Electoral Group I (VIP):
- Head of Department Rikke Leth-Larsen, Department of Clinical Research
- Professor Kent Søe, Head of Research, Research Unit of Pathology
- Professor Karin Brochstedt Dieperink, Vice Head of Department, Department of Clinical Research
- Professor Trine Munk-Olsen, Research Unit of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
- Professor Dorthe Susanne Nielsen, Geriatric Research Unit
- Associate professor Bo Redder Mussmann, Research unit of Radiology
- Clinical professor, Jens Flensted Lassen, Research unit of Cardiology
- Clinical professor Christian B. Laursen, Odense Respiratory Research Unit - ODIN
- Clinical professor Martin Lindberg-Lassen, Research unit of Orthopedic Surgery
- Clincal associate professor Hanne M. Lindegaard, Vice Head of Department, Department of Clinical Research
Electoral Group II (TAP):
- Head of Secretariat Malene Korsholm, Department secretariat, Department of Clinical Research and Department of Regional Health Research
- Lab Technician Anni Schmidt Petersen, Steno Diabetes Center Odense
Electoral Group III (STUD):
- PhD student Katrine Prisak Jakobsen, Research Unit OPEN
- PhD student Stephan Mayntz, Research unit of Medicine (Svendborg)
Members of Electoral Groups I and II are elected for the period 1 January 2025 to 31 December 2028.
Members of Electoral Group III are elected for the period 1 January 2025 to 31 December 2026.
Faculty councils, boards, and committees
See the paragraph above
The Department of Clinical Research takes part in the Gender Equality Council at the Faculty of Health Sciences.
The Department of Clinical Research is part of the Research Council of OUH.
