PhD students at the Centre of Head and Orthopaedics
The Centre of Head and Orthopaedics wish to offer its patient care and treatment at the highest international level. This goal can only be fulfilled with a strong focus on research and development. See a list of the PhD Students in the Centre and their project titles.
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Anaesthesiology
Topic: Soft tissue infections | PhD student: Peter Vadim Polzik
Project title
Diagnostics and treatment of necrotizing soft tissue infections
Place of employment
Department of Anaesthesiology
Supervisor
Ole Hyldegaard
Topic: The initial treatment of trauma patients| PhD student: Josefine Stokholm Bækgaard
Project title
Oxygen Therapy for Trauma patients
Place of employment
Department of Anaesthesiology
Supervisor
Jacob Steinmetz
Topic: Mild traumatic brain injury | PhD student: Heidi Jeannet Graff
Project title
Long-term consequences of mild traumatic brain injury: labour market attachment, marital stability, academic achievement and socio-economic status.
Place of employment
Department of Anaesthesia
Supervisor
Ingrid Eugenie Egerod
Topic: Long-term outcomes of trauma | PhD student: Trine Grodum Eksesen
Project title
Long-term outcomes and (epi)genetic factors related to trauma
Place of employment
Department of Anaesthesia
Supervisor
Jacob Steinmetz
Topic: Subarachnoid haemorrhage | PhD student: Asger Sonne
Project title
Early prehospital recognition of spontaneous subarachnoid haemorrhage
Place of employment
Department of Anaesthesia
Supervisor
Lars S. Rasmussen
Breast surgery
Topic: Tailor-made axillary surgery in breast cancer | PhD student: Emil Villiam Holm-Rasmussen
Project title
Tailor-made surgery of the axilla in breast cancer patients with small cancers, microinvasive disease or ductal carcinoma in situ
Place of employment
Department of Plastic Surgery and Burns Treatment
Supervisor
Tove Holst Filtenborg Tvedskov
Head and neck diseases
Topic: Stam cells | PhD student: Charlotte Duch Lynggaard
Project title
Mesenchymal stem cells in head and neck disease
Place of employment
Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery & Audiology
Supervisor
Christian Von Buchwald
Histopathalogy
Topic: Development of bilateral breast cancer | PhD student: Mathias Kvist Mejdahl
Project title
Synchronous bilateral breast cancer in Denmark 1978-
2014. Incidence, histo-pathologic characteristics, and prognosis
Place of employment
Department of Plastic Surgery and Burns Treatment
Supervisor
Niels Thorndahl Kroman
Micro surgery
Topic: Micro surgery and reconstruction | PhD student: Jens Hjermind Højvig
Project title
Optimising Microsurgical Reconstruction of Advanced Head and Neck Cancers - enhanced recovery and improved clinical pathway
Place of employment
Department of Plastic Surgery and Burns Treatment
Supervisor
Christian Torsten Bonde
Ophtalmology
Topic: Eye diseases effecting the sight and treatment | PhD student: Helene Jeppesen
Project title
OCULAR GRAFT VERSUS HOST DISEASE - Demographics, treatment with allogeneic serum eye drops and cytokine profile in tear fluid
Place of employment
Department of Ophthalmology
Supervisor
Steffen Heegaard
Topic: Macular hole treatment end Descernets membrane | PhD student: Mark Jensen Alberti
Project title
Evidence based positioning regimens for improving macular hole treatment and Descemets membrane endothelial keratoplasty
Place of employment
Department of Ophthalmology
Supervisor
Morten Dornonville de la Cour
Topic: Prediction of binocular problems | PhD student: Therese Grønhøj Krarup
Project title
New method to predict binocular problems after ocular surgery
Place of employment
Department of Ophthalmology
Supervisor
Morten Dornonville de la Cour
Topic: Cataract surgery | PhD student: Jesper Høiberg Erichsen
Project title
Optimizing safety and use of ressources in cataract surgery - a Ph.D.-thesis
Place of employment
Department of Ophthalmology
Supervisor
Line Kessel
Topic: Eye disorders in children - Eye studies | PhD student: Mathias Luka Hvidtfelt Hansen
Project title
Copenhagen Child Cohort 2000, the eye study: 2016 - Choroidal thickness and myopia in the Copenhagen Child Cohort 2000.
Place of employment
Department of Ophthalmology
Supervisor
Line Kessel
Topic: Virtual reality simulation in cataract surgery | PhD student: Mads Forslund Jacobsen
Project title
Efficacy of virtual-reality simulation for cataract surgery on patient outcomes
Place of employment
Department of Ophthalmology
Supervisor
Morten Dornonville de la Cour
Topic: Corneal endothelial progenitor cells | PhD student: Mette Hedegaard Correll
Project title
Identification, characterization and expansion of corneal endothelial progenitor cells
Place of employment
Department of Ophthalmology
Supervisor
Steffen Heegaard
Orthopedics
Topic: Early-onset scoliosis | PhD student: Casper Dragsted
Project title
Early-onset scoliosis - epidemiological aspects, classification and surgical treatment
Place of employment
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
Supervisor
Poul Martin Gehrchen
Topic: Optimising knee surgey | PhD student: Christina Margrethe Holm
Project title
Comparison of Persona® uncemented total knee arthroplasty versus Persona® cemented total knee arthroplasty, In a randomized controlled trial using RSA and DEXA
Place of employment
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
Supervisor
Michael Mørk Petersen
Topic: Scoliosis | PhD student: Sidsel Sofie Fruergaard
Project title
Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis - comorbidity, epidemiological aspect and surgical risk factors
Place of employment
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
Supervisor
Poul Martin Gehrchen
Topic: Surgical treatment of Adult spinal deformity | PhD student: Tanvir Johanning Bari
Project title
Risk factors in surgical treatment of Adult spinal deformity - the role of surgical technique, biomechanics and existing sagittal imbalance
Place of employment
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
Supervisor
Poul Martin Gehrchen
Topic: Wounds and recontruction | PhD student: Werner Herbert Hettwer
Project title
Prevention of prolonged wound drainage associated with endoprosthetic reconstruction after tumor resection involving the proximal femur
Place of employment
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
Supervisor
Michael Mørk Petersen
Otology
Topic: Otosclerosis | PhD student: Lars Juul Hansen
Project title
Cellular patterns and irregularities in human perilabyrinthine bone
Place of employment
Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery & Audiology
Supervisor
Mads Sølvsten Sørensen
Otorhinolaryngology
Topic: Cochlear Implants | PhD student: Niels West
Project title
Hearing and vestibular function after cochlear implantation of adults
Place of employment
Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery & Audiology
Supervisor
Per Cayé-Thomasen
Topic: Cochlear Implantation and Pendred syndrome | PhD student: Kristianna Henrikke Mey
Project title
Challenges and outcome of cochlear implantation in Pendred syndrome/NSEVA (Non-syndromic Enlarged Vestibular Aqueduct) - relation between genetic profile, inner ear morphology and hearing.
Place of employment
Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery & Audiology
Supervisor
Per Cayé-Thomasen
Topic: Sinus and lung infections | PhD student: Elisabeth Arndal
Project title
The interaction between sinus- and lung infections in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
Place of employment
Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery & Audiology
Supervisor
Christian Von Buchwald
Topic: Primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD) | PhD student: Helene Elgaard Kobbernagel
Project title
Treatment and new outcome measures in primary ciliary dyskinesia
Place of employment
Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery & Audiology
Supervisor
Christian Von Buchwald
Topic: Feasibilty of Urokinase | PhD student: Kirstine Kim Schmidt Karnov
Project title
Feasibilty of Urokinase---type plasminogen activator receptor
(uPAR)---targeted PET imaging for staging of patients with head and neck squamous
cell carcinoma (SSC) and the relation between uPAR and integrin avß6 in oral SSC.
Place of employment
Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery & Audiology
Supervisor
Christian Von Buchwald
Topic: Vestibular Schwannoma | PhD student: Hjalte Christian R. S. Frandsen
Project title
RGD PET/MRI in sporadic Vestibular Schwannoma
Place of employment
Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery & Audiology
Supervisor
Per Cayé-Thomasen
Topic: Patient involvement | PhD student: Annelise Mortensen
Project title
Needs assessment and decision-making tool (NEAT-decision) integrated in clinical practice to enhance patient involvement in Head and Neck Cancer Rehabilitation - a comparative controlled trial
Place of employment
Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery & Audiology
Supervisor
Mary Ellen Jarden
Topic: Virtual reality simulation in surgey | PhD student: Martin Frendø-Sørensen
Project title
Perspectives in virtual reality simulation in temporal bone surgery
Place of employment
Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery & Audiology
Supervisor
Mads Sølvsten Sørensen
Topic: Stem cells in Head and Neck diseases | PhD student: Charlotte Lynggaard
Project title
Mesenchymal stem cells for radiation-induced xerostomia after oropharynx cancer.
Place of employment
Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery & Audiology
Supervisor
Christian Von Buchwald
Physiotherapy
Topic: Spine surgery and physiotherapy | PhD student: Heidi Tegner
Project title
The effect of an early rehabilitation-intervention consisting of a Cognitive Behavioral treatment to patients after lumbar spinal fusion measured on physical activity, pain-level, and fear of movement
Place of employment
Department of occupational and physiotherapy & Center for Rheumatology and Spine Diseases
Supervisor
Bente Appel Esbensen, Rachid Bech-Azeddine
Rheumatology
Topic: Lupus and Risk factors | PhD student: Henrik Christian Bidstrup Leffers
Project title
Genetic and Environmental Risk Factors for Systemic Lupus Erythematosus in a Nationwide Population Study
Place of employment
Center for Rheumatology and Spine Diseases
Supervisor
Søren Jacobsen
Topic: Rheumatoid arthritis | PhD student: Kathrine Lederballe Grøn
Project title
Efficacy and safety of biological treatments in rheumatoid arthritis
Place of employment
Center for Rheumatology and Spine Diseases, Copecare
Supervisor
Merete Hetland
Topic: Axial spondyloarthritis | PhD student: Simon Krabbe
Project title
Remission in patients with axial spondyloarthritis
Place of employment
Center for Rheumatology and Spine Diseases, Copecare
Supervisor
Mikkel Østergaard
Topic: Diagnosis and management of gout | PhD student: Sara Nysom Christiansen
Project title
Ultrasonography for optimized diagnosis and management of gout
Place of employment
Center for Rheumatology and Spine Diseases, Copecare
Supervisor
Mikkel Østergaard
Topic: Biological treasments and axial spondyloarthritis | PhD student: Marie Wetterslev
Project title
Dose adjustment of biological treatment in patients with axial spondyloarthritis - the DOBIS study
Place of employment
Center for Rheumatology and Spine Diseases, Copecare
Supervisor
Mikkel Østergaard
Topic: Rheumatoid Arthrtitis and smoking cessation | PhD student: Ida Kristiane Roelsgaard
Project title
REU-STOP; the effect of intensive smoking cessation program on disease activity in patients with rheumatoid arthritis
Place of employment
Center for Rheumatology and Spine Diseases, Copecare
Supervisor
Bente Appel Esbensen
Topic: Gout and comorbidities | PhD student: Kristian Zobbe
Project title
The Gout Epidemic - Focus on Comorbidities
Place of employment
Center for Rheumatology and Spine Diseases, Parker Institut
Supervisor
Lars Erik Kristensen
Topic: Rheumatoid arthritis and sleep | PhD student: Kristine Marie Latocha
Project title
Sleep-RA. Health significance of sleep in patients with rheumatoid arthritis
Place of employment
Center for Rheumatology and Spine Diseases, Copecare
Supervisor
Bente Appel Esbensen
Topic: Rheumatoid Arthritis | PhD student: Sabine Sparre Dieperink
Project title
Risk and outcome of invasive bacterial infections among patients with rheumatoid arthritis
Place of employment
Center for Rheumatology and Spine Diseases, Copecare
Supervisor
Merete Lund Hetland
Topic: Periferal psoriatic arthritis | PhD student: Sara Kamp Felbo
Project title
Characterization and monitoring of different phenotypes of peripheral psoriatic arthritis by modern imaging – and their impact on physical and psychological aspects of patients’ lives
Place of employment
Center for Rheumatology and Spine Diseases, Copecare
Supervisor
Mikkel Østergaard
Topic: Axial spondyloarthritis | PhD student: Sengül Seven
Project title
MR findings in the sacroiliac joints and spine for differentiation of patients with axial spondyloarthritis from patients with other conditions.
Place of employment
Center for Rheumatology and Spine Diseases, Copecare
Supervisor
Mikkel Østergaard
Rhinology
Topic: Sinonasal cardinomas | PhD student: Sannia Mia Svenningsen Sjöstedt
Project title
Sinonasal carcinomas: histology, genomics, outcome, and relation to sinonasal papillomas
Place of employment
Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery & Audiology
Supervisor
Christian Von Buchwald
Spine diseases and surgery
Topic: Spine surgery and adverse advents | PhD student: Stian Iversen Solumsmoen
Project title
Complications, outcome and impact of spine surgery the role of patient reported outcome and adverse events
Place of employment
Center for Rheumatology and Spine Diseases
Supervisor
Rachid Bech-Azeddine