Bente Appel Esbensen

​ Clinical Professor of Rheumatology with Special Focus on Nursing and Self-Management

Other titles

Senior Researcher, RN, MSciN, PhD


Affiliated to

Copenhagen Center for Arthritis Research (COPECARE)Center for Rheumatology and Spine Diseases, Centre of Head and Orthopaedics  

Research areas include

  • Develop, test, evaluate and implement innovative self-management strategies in inflammatory arthritis patients 
  • Rheumatological Nursing 
  • Physical activity, inactivity and sedentary time 
  • Symptom management 
  • Project TASEMA (Targeted SElf MAnagement in Patients with Inflammatory Arthritis (IA)) 

Additional information

CV and Publications

Contact information

Tlf: +45 25540828 


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