Background
Qvist, Jesper was born on February 18, 1941 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Son of Ejnar and Ulla Qvist.
Qvist, Jesper was born on February 18, 1941 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Son of Ejnar and Ulla Qvist.
Doctor of Medicine, Copenhagen University, 1966.
Intern medicine and surgery Copenhagen Municipality, 1966—1968. Residency anesthesia Copenhagen University Hospital, 1968—1971. Clinical and research fellow Harvard Medical School, Boston, 1971—1974.
Head Intensive Care Unit Copenhagen County Hospital, Herlev, Denmark, 1978—1990. Consultant intensive care King Faisal Specialist Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 1991—1994. Associate professor anesthesia Harvard Med School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, 1995—1996.
Director infectious disease Intensive Care Unit care Rigs Hospital, Copenhagen, 1996—2000, director neuro-intensive care unit, 2000—2002, head Respiratory Center East, 2002—2007. Consultant neuro intensive care unit, since 2007. Research fellow National Science Foundation for Polar Research, McMurdo, Antarctica, 1974—1983, Harvard Med School, Boston, 1987—1988.
Research fellow/consultant Kantonspital, Basel, Switzerland, 1982—1983. Lieutenant Danish Military, 1967-1968.
Member central science-ethical committee for human research under the Ministry of Health, Copenhagen, 1988—1989.
Married Dorte Mortensen, December 9, 1943. Children: Thomas, Tavs, Jens Adam.