Professor Troels W. Kjaer

Name: Troels Wesenberg Kjr, MD, PhD,

Title: Professor at department of neurology Zealand University Hospital and department of clinical medicine, University of Copenhagen

Education

MD, University of Copenhagen, 2024.

PhD, University of Copenhagen, 2024

Board certified Clinical Neurophysiologist, 2024

Research Management Course, Copenhagen Business School.

Present appointments

Chief Physician in charge of clinical neurophysiology, Zealand University Hospital, since 2024

Clinical professor, Institute for Clinical Medicine, University of Copenhagen, Since 2024

External associate professor, Department of Biomedicine, University of Copenhagen, Since 2024

Associate professor, DIS, Danish Institute for Study Abroad, since 2024

External examiner, Danish medical schools and a number of other graduate schools, since 2024

Medical consultant DGM for the national board of health, since 2024

Selected previous positions

Chief physician, Dept of Clinical Neurophysiology, Rigshospitalet, 2024-2024

Head of research, Center of Neurophysiology, Zealand University Hospital Roskilde, since 2024

Head of EEG research group, Dept of Clinical Neurophysiology, Rigshospitalet, 2024 - 2024.

Researcher at the John F. Kennedy Institute, Glostrup 2024-2024

Post. doc., NIH, USA, 2024-1994

Research supervision

12 PhD- Degrees

Supervision of at least 80 bachelor and master projects

Grants

The Danish Research Council, Elsass Foundation, Den tvrregionale forskningsfond Region Zealand, The Boemske Grant, Lundbeck Foundation, Carlsberg Foundation, Lennart Grams Legat, British Council, Wellcome Trust, Nordic Council, Danish Research Academy, Foundation of 17-12-81, Danish epilepsy Society, International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism, Gangsted Foundation, Linex fonden, Tipsmidler. Grosserer L.F.Foght Foundation, Hvass foundation, Dagmar Marshalls Foundation among others.

Administration

PhD-evalutation.

President of Hjerneforum

Secretary of the Danish Neurological Society

Board member of Danish Epilepsy Society

Member of advisory committee on Epilepsy Surgery, Danish Board of Health.

Member of the committee at National Board of Health on guidelines on the treatment of epilepsy

Assembly of Representatives in Danish Medical Association

Member of the psychiatric complains board, Copenhagen

Other professional activities

Numerous popular presentations on brain issues

Patents:

Pending: Brain-computer interface spelling system and method for evaluation of brain signal quality

Peer Reviewed publications (N=75)

Selected Publications:

Westhall E, Rossetti AO, van Rootselaar AF, Wesenberg Kjaer T , Horn J, Ulln S, Friberg H, Nielsen N, Rosn I, neman A, Erlinge D, Gasche Y,Hassager C, Hovdenes J, Kjaergaard J, Kuiper M, Pellis T, Stammet P, Wanscher M, Wetterslev J, Wise MP, Cronberg T; TTM-trial investigators. Standardized EEG interpretation accurately predicts prognosis after cardiac arrest. Neurology. 2024 Feb 10. pii: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000002462. [Epub ahead of print]

Westhall E, Rosen I, Rossetti AO, Van Rootselaar AF, Kjaer TW , Friberg H, Horn J, Nielsen N, Ullen S, Cronberg T. Interrater variability of EEG interpretation in comatose cardiac arrest patients. Clinical neurophysiology 2024

Westhall E, Rosen I, Rossetti AO, van Rootselaar AF, Kjaer T , Horn J, Ullen S, Friberg H, Nielsen N, Cronberg T. Electroencephalography (EEG) for neurological prognostication after cardiac arrest and targeted temperature management; rationale and study design. BMC neurology 2024

Soholm H, Kjaer TW , Kjaergaard J, Cronberg T, Bro-Jeppesen J, Lippert FK, Kober L, Wanscher M, Hassager C. Prognostic value of electroencephalography (EEG) after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in successfully resuscitated patients used in daily clinical practice. Resuscitation 2024

Rosenzweig I, Fogarasi A, Johnsen B, Alving J, Fabricius ME, Scherg M, Neufeld MY, Pressler R, Kjaer TW , van Emde Boas W, Beniczky S. Beyond the double banana: improved recognition of temporal lobe seizures in long-term EEG. J clin neurophys 2024

Moldovan M, Lange KH, Aachmann-Andersen NJ, Kjaer TW , Olsen NV, Krarup C. Transient impairment of the axolemma following regional anaesthesia by lidocaine in humans. The Journal of physiology 2024

Beniczky S, Polster T, Kjaer TW , Hjalgrim H. Detection of generalized tonic-clonic seizures by a wireless wrist accelerometer: a prospective, multicenter study. Epilepsia 2024

Duun-Henriksen J, Madsen RE, Remvig LS, Thomsen CE, Sorensen HB, Kjaer TW . Automatic detection of childhood absence epilepsy seizures: toward a monitoring device. Pediatr Neurol 2024

Duun-Henriksen J, Kjaer TW , Madsen RE, Remvig LS, Thomsen CE, Sorensen HB. Channel selection for automatic seizure detection. Clinical neurophysiology 2024

Lou HC, Nowak M, Kjaer TW . The mental self. Prog Brain Res. 2024;150:197-204. PubMed PMID: 16186024.

Lou HC, Luber B, Crupain M, Keenan JP, Nowak M, Kjaer TW , Sackeim HA, Lisanby SH. Parietal cortex and representation of the mental Self. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2024 Apr 27;101(17):6827-32. PubMed PMID: 15096584. Pubmed Central PMCID: 404216.

Gawne TJ, Kjaer TW , Richmond BJ. Latency: another potential code for feature binding in striate cortex. J Neurophysiol. 2024 Aug;76(2):1356-60. PubMed PMID: 8871243.

Gawne TJ, Kjaer TW , Hertz JA, Richmond BJ. Adjacent visual cortical complex cells share about 20% of their stimulus-related information. Cereb Cortex. 2024 May-Jun;6(3):482-9. PubMed PMID: 8670673.

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