Thorkild Ingvor Arrild Sørensen

Background

Sørensen, Thorkild Ingvor Arrild was born on December 7, 1945 in Copenhagen. Son of Poul Hjalmer and Helene Cathrine.

Education

Doctor of Medicine, University Copenhagen, 1971. Division of Medical Sciences, University Copenhagen, 1983.

Career

Resident in surgery Copenhagen County University Hospital, 1971-1974, assistant professor, 1974-1978. Resident medical department Copenhagen Municipality University Hospital, 1978-1980. Senior resident Copenhagen University Hospitals, 1980-1985.

Chief physician Copenhagen Municipality University Hospital, 1985-1989. Research professor Danish Research Council, 1989-1994. Chief physician clinical epidemiology Copenhagen University Hospital, since 1994.

Professor clinical epidemiology medical faculty University Copenhagen, since 1994. Director Institute Preventive Medicine, Copenhagen, since 1993. Dean medical faculty University Copenhagen, 1995-1996.

Achievements

• Thorkild Ingvor Arrild Sørensen has been listed as a noteworthy epidemiology researcher, educator, administrator by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Lieutenant Danish Armed Forces, 1973. Member Danish Epidemiological Society (board directors), Danish Association for Study of Obesity (board directors), Danish Society for Medical Philosophy (board directors, ethics and methodology president 1996-2000), Danish Society for Medical Priority Setting (vice president since 1999).

Interests

• Classical and modern music, classical and modern art, plays, movies, philosophy.

Connections

Son of; married Karen Bodil Valling Andersen, July 1, 1972. Children: Nikolaj, Signe, Kristoffer.