Helene Nørrelund, consultant, DMSc, PhD from the Department of Clinical Medicine and Central Denmark Region will take up the position of new Head of Graduate School, Health on 1 March.

2016.02.11 | Kirsten Olesen

[Translate to English:] Helene Nørrelund - new Head of Graduate School.

The PhD programme at Aarhus University, Health, is implementing a new management structure on 1 March. This will take place when Helene Nørrelund, consultant, DMSc, PhD from the Department of Clinical Medicine at Aarhus University and the Central Denmark Region, takes up a new position as Head of Graduate School on a half time basis. The new structure will ensure the development and implementation of strategic initiatives that are intended to strengthen Health's PhD programme and other talent development initiatives moving towards 2020.

As of 1 March, the day-to-day management will comprise the new Head of Graduate School, Helene Nørrelund; the three research programme directors – Professor Torben Sigsgaard (Public Health), Associate Professor Kamille Smidt Rasmussen (ClinFO) and professor with special responsibilities (MSO) Thomas Vorup-Jensen (Biomedicine); and the division manager for HE PhD Administration Lise Terkildsen.

The current Head of Graduate School, Health, Vice-dean for Talent Development Lise Wogensen Bach, will continue to have managerial responsibility for the PhD area, both in terms of strategic work and overall finances.

Research and clinical background

Helene Nørrelund currently undertakes the function of regional coordinator for the Danish Regions’ “One Entrance” initiative. The aim of this initiative is to make it simpler and more attractive to carry out research in Denmark. The initiative comprises a coordinating knowledge centre to facilitate the industrial sector’s access to agreements on clinical trials, as well as researchers access to academic support.
Prior to this, Helene Nørrelund was specialist consultant at the Department of Medicine at Viborg Regional Hospital.

The coming head of graduate school received her MD in 1994, became a medical specialist in internal medicine in 2006 and in endocrinology in 2008. She completed her diploma in 1992, earned her PhD in 2000, her DMSc in 2005 and an MBA in 2011.  
She has written a PhD dissertation and doctoral dissertation about the significance of growth hormone for the substrate metabolism in connection with fasting. In recent years she has primarily conducted research into diabetes and heart failure. She has also written a master thesis on the Danish Healthcare Quality Programme.

•  See previous coverage of the new management structure for the PhD programme at Health.

Further information:

Vice-dean, Head of Graduate School Lise Wogensen Bach
Aarhus University, Health
Tel.: (+45) 8715 2012
lwb@au.dk