CV - Mikael Boesen
Mikael Boesen is employed as a senior consultant in musculoskeletal radiology at department of Radiology Bispbjerg and Frederiksberg Hospitals with a part-time position as head of the department’s musculoskeletal research since 2009.
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Mikael Boesen (MB) graduated as an MD in 1999, during the final year of his
studies he also worked as a research assistant at the Institute of Microbiology
and Immunology at the Panum institute, University of Copenhagen followed by
initial postgrad training as a medical doctor at Bornholm Centralsygehus and
later on as a research assistant in cardiac MRI at Copenhagen university
hospital Hvidovre (DRCMR) and Frederiksberg before he startet his career in
radiology i 2003.
MB defended his PhD thesis in June 2008, entitled "Magnetic resonance imaging
of joints following intraarticular treatment in arthritis" from the Parker
Institute and Aalborg University and he has since his PhD pursued his special
interest in advanced imaging of patients with various musculoskeletal conditions
including rheumatoid arthritis (RA), osteoarthritis (OA), and psoriatic
arthritis (PSA) especially dealing with quantification of inflammation using
magnetic resonance imaging.
MB has currently over 12 years of hand-on experience
in imaging protocol design, imaging study set-up, scoring and reporting in
especially MSK diseases, and he has co- authored over 40 papers and 3 book
chapters and is a frequently invited speaker in national and international
symposia and lectures. MB has previously co-supervised, 4 pre-graduate students,
3 national and 2 international Phd students and are currently supervising 6
national Phd students. MB is chair of the IMAGINE group that since 2008 have
investigated the use of dynamic contrast enhanced MRI in patients with
inflammatory arthritis, and is an associate member of the of the Arthritis
Research UK Centre for Sport, Exercise and Osteoarthritis.
Since his Phd MB has also been affiliated the Parker institute Bispebjerg and
Frederiksbeg Hospital as a part-time consultant in his sparetime to head the MRI
and X-ray research and supervise the musculoskeletal imaging Ph.d. research at
the Parker Institute.