Gunnar Gislason#
| Membership Number: | 7567 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BASIC AND CLINICAL TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2026 |
| Main Country of Residence: | DENMARK |
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| ORCID: | 0000-0002-0548-402X |
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Present and Previous Positions
- 2014 - present Chief Science Officer and Director of Research, The Danish Heart Foundation
- 2013 - present Professor of Cardiology and Cardiovascular Epidemiology, University of Copenhagen
- 2010 - present Senior Consultant Cardiologist, Department of Cardiology, Copenhagen University Hospital Herlev and Gentofte
- Aug 2008 - Dec 2012 Associate professor, University of Copenhagen
- March 2009 - Dec 2012 Senior Research Scientist, The Cardiovascular Research Centre, Department of Cardiology, Copenhagen University Hospital Gentofte
- March 2009 - Dec 2010 Staff Specialist (afdelingslæge), Dept of Cardiology, Copenhagen University Hospital Gentofte
- Jun 2008 - Feb 2009 Fellowship in Cardiology, Dept of Cardiology, Copenhagen University Hospital Rigshospitalet
- Mar 2006 - May 2008 Fellowship in Cardiology, Dept of Cardiology, Copenhagen University Hospital Gentofte
- Nov 2003 - Feb 2006 Research Fellow, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Copenhagen University Hospital Bispebjerg
- May - Oct 2003 Fellowship in Cardiology, Dept of Cardiology, Copenhagen University Hospital Herlev
- Fellowship in Internal Medicine
Fields of Scholarship
- Diabetes and cardiovascular comorbidities
- Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety
- NSAID cardiovascular safety
- Antithrombotic treatment and anticoagulation
- Cardiac arrest and resuscitation
- Large-scale register-based studies
- Cardiovascular imaging (echocardiography)
- Ischemic heart disease and heart failure
- Cardiovascular epidemiology
Honours and Awards
- 2019 Highly Cited Researcher (Top 1%) in Clinical Medicine, Web of Science
- 2019 Life Honorary Membership, Danish Society for Pharmacoepidemiology
- 2018 Research Prize, Danish Society of Cardiology and the Danish Heart Foundation
- 2017 Partner, ESCAPE-NET (European Sudden Cardiac Arrest network), EU Horizon 2020 Grant (€10 million)
- 2016 Research Prize, Saværksejer Jeppe Juhl and hustru Ovita Juhl Memorial Foundation
- 2013 Adjunct Professor of Cardiovascular Epidemiology and Treatment, National Institute of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark
- 2012 Clinical Research Scholarship (5-year), The Novo Nordisk Foundation
- 2008 Research Fellowship (3-year), The Danish Research Council
- 2016 Fellow of the American College of Cardiology (FACC)
- 2014 Fellow of the American Heart Association (FAHA)
- 2010 Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology (FESC)
