Health has a new clinical professor and chair in clinical physiology and nuclear medicine
Lars Christian Gormsen is to be a clinical professor and chair at Aarhus University's Department of Clinical Medicine and he will also join the management team at the Department of Nuclear Medicine & PET at Aarhus University Hospital.
Clinical professor and chair Lars Christian Gormsen uses molecular imaging, e.g. PET scans, to examine the basic physiology of metabolic diseases such as diabetes, lifestyle interventions and training. He also examines how PET/CT imaging can detect ischaemic heart disease and inflammatory diseases such as polymyalgia rheumatica.
"My basic research contributes to a better understanding of how lifestyle interventions such as fasting and special diets affect cardiac performance and metabolic processes in the brain. I’m particularly interested in clarifying how the PET technique can best be used to diagnose patients with heart diseases, for example," says Lars Christian Gormsen and continues:
"The clinical professor and chair position will give me an opportunity to influence and support the department's research-related development. And I hope that the technical aspects of molecular imaging in particular can be improved in the coming years – not least now with the creation of an independent position as the research director within quantitative imaging and AI."
Contact
Clinical professor and chair, MD and PhD Lars Christian Gormsen
Aarhus University, Department of Clinical Medicine and
Aarhus University Hospital, Department of Nuclear Medicine and PET-Centre
Mobile: (+45) 22811631
Email: lars.christian.gormsen@clin.au.dk