Stomach, bowels, liver, kidney
Examinations, donated blood and bloodproducts
Cancer, blood diseases, arthritis and infections
Heart, lungs, aviation medicine
Cross-disciplinary
Other departments
One thing is to have state-of-the-art scanners; another thing is to decode the scan images. Rigshospitalet was one of the first hospitals in Europe to acquire an ultra-fast CT scanner. The hospital is now teaching physicians from all over the world to read scans of the heart.
Measurable effects of prioritised and focussed health and safety initiatives only come after implementation; transforming words into action in daily routines. This is what makes a winner and it is on this basis that Rigshospitalet received the European Good Practice Award in April 2013.
Associate professor Thomas Bjarnsholt has received the Young Investigator Award for Research in Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases from the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and infectious diseases (ESCMID).