Borge G Nordestgaard

Børge G. Nordestgaard, MD, DMSc

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

President-Elect European Atherosclerosis Society

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

Prof. Nordestgaard has for more than 30 years continued his interest in the pathogenesis, diagnosis and treatment of familial hypercholesterolemia, hyperlipidemia, lipoprotein(a), atherosclerosis, diabetes 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. Nordestgaard has supervised 74 Ph.D. students and 34 postdoctoral fellows, and has published 936 original articles and 148 reviews, book chapters, consensus statements, & editorials. His H-index is 159 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, Nature Genetics, BMJ, Lancet DE, Circulation, European Heart Journal, JACC and JAMA cardiology.