Professor & Chief Physician, Copenhagen University Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

President European Atherosclerosis Society

Prof Nordestgaard studied and worked in Copenhagen, New York, and London.

He has for more than 40 years continued his interest in the pathogenesis, diagnosis and treatment of familial hypercholesterolemia, hyperlipidemia, lipoprotein(a), remnant cholesterol, triglycerides, atherosclerosis, diabetes, and liver, renal, and cardiovascular disease, and has written extensively on these conditions.

He is chairing the Copenhagen General Population Study and is a steering committee member of the Copenhagen City Heart Study and five phase 3 cardiovascular intervention trials.

Prof. Børge G. Nordestgaard has supervised 75 Ph.D. students and 35 postdoctoral fellows, and has published 1020 original articles and 166 reviews, book chapters, consensus statements, & editorials. His H-index is 180 in Web of Science and he is listed among the top 0.1% researchers worldwide with the most highly cited papers.

Original articles include publications in NEJM, Lancet, JAMA, Nature, Science, baby Nature journals, BMJ, baby Lancet journals, Circulation, European Heart Journal, JACC and baby JAMA journals.