Short presentation

Professor in palliative care and quality of life assessment, Department of Health Services Research (50%) and Consultant and Head, the Research Unit, Department of Palliative Medicine, Bispebjerg Hospital (50%).

Chairman and founder of Danish Palliative Care Database (DPD) – a national quality and research database comprising the about 10,000 patients referred to specialized palliative care at hospices and palliative teams/units every year.

2011-2014 chairman (2014-15: past chair) of EORTC Quality of Life Group – a research group with more than 240 members from Europe and Canada, Australia, USA, Taiwan, Japan, Brazil under the European Organisation for Research and Treatment of cancer. The Group is internationally acknowledged as a leader in development and application of patient-completed questionnaires in clinical trials.

Primary fields of research

• Health services research concerning palliative care
• Cancer patients’ experience of disease and treatment
• Development and validation of questionnaires – particularly concerning cancer patients’ symptoms, problems, and quality of life

Current research

Please see the web site of the Research Unit (English version forth-coming).

Publications
’Groenvold M OR Gronvold M’ i PubMed.

Teaching

M.Sc. in Public Health Science: Responsible for the course ‘Questionnaire Construction’.

Responsible for the PhD course ‘Questionnaires in clinical and public health research: development, validation and evaluation’.

Pregraduate supervision on several of the Faculty’s programmes.

Supervision of 16 PhD students.

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Education

2009: D.M.Sc./Dr.med., University of Copenhagen (U-CPH). Thesis title: Health-related quality of life in early breast cancer.

1996: PhD, University of Copenhagen (U-CPH). Thesis title: Validation of quality of life questionnaire for breast cancer patients.

1992: Autorisation til selvstændigt virke som læge.

1988: MD, University of Copenhagen (U-CPH). 

1988: Foreign Medical Graduate Examination in the Medical Sciences (clinical part).

Employment

2012- : Professor with special responsibilities in palliative care and quality of life assessment, Section for Health Services Research, Department of Public Health, U-CPH (2012-2017) (50%) and Consultant and Head of Research Unit, Department of Palliative Medicine, Bispebjerg Hospital, Copenhagen (50%).

2002-2012: Associate Professor, Section for Health Services Research, Department of Public Health, U-CPH  (50%) and Consultant and Head of Research Unit, Department of Palliative Medicine, Bispebjerg Hospital, Copenhagen  (50%).

1998-2002: Assistant Professor, Section for Health Services Research, Department of Public Health, U-CPH  (20%) and Senior Registrar, Research Unit, Department of Palliative Medicine, Bispebjerg Hospital, Copenhagen  (80%).

1994-1995: Department of Internal Medicine, Holstebro Central Hospital.

1992: Department of Surgical Gastroenterology D, Herlev Hospital.

1990-1997: Research, PhD and Post Doc positions at Department of Social Medicine, U-CPH, associated with Department of Oncology, State University Hospital, Rigshospi­talet. 

1989-1990: Department of Medical Haematology, Finsen Institute/Rigshospitalet.

1988-1989 and 1990: Department of Oncology, Finsen Institute/Rigshospitalet.

Research abroad

1996: Department of Medical Psychology, Acedemic Medical Centre and Division of Psychosocial Research and Epidemiology, Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam.

Miscellanous

- Work Package Leader in the EU/FP7 funded project 'ACTION - Advance Care Planning: An Innovative Palliative Care Innovation to Improve Quality of Life in Oncology' (2013-2018).    

- Head of Section for Health Services Research, Department of Public Health, U-CPH 2003, 2006-2007.

 - More than 200 presentations.

 - Peer-review for many international journals and for Medical Research Council, London.

 - Member of evaluation committee for 9 PhD theses.

 -  Arranged and been part of scientific commitee and/or chairman at many internation conferences

- Member of

• Executive Committee for Danish Palliative Care Database (chairman)(2007-)
• Executive Committee for Danish Multidisciplinary Cancer Group for Palliative Care (DMCG-PAL) (2009-)
• Executive Committee for Dansk Selskab for Palliativ Medicin, DSPaM (2009- )
• Board of Directors, International Society for Quality of Life Research, ISOQOL, 2015-2018
• Membership Committee (chairman) and the Board, European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer, EORTC (2015- )
• The European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer, EORTC,  Quality of Life Group since 1989:

• Past chairman 2014-2015
• Chairman 2011-2014.
• Executive Committee 1996-2002, 2010-2015
• Chairman, Methodology Committee 1999-2002.
• Secretary 1996-1998
• Initiator and leader of (with MA Petersen) the development of a new, interaktive version of the most widely used questionnaire for cancer patients, EORTC QLQ-C30 (since 2005): EORTC CAT.

• The Danish National Board of Health's working groups concerning preparation of Cancer Plan III (2010), Recommendations for Palliative Care (2011) and Clinical Guidelinec for Rehabilitation and Palliative Care (2011)