Professor Mikkel Østergaard, MD, PhD, DMSc
Mikkel Østergaard graduated from the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1990. In September 2003, he was appointed Professor in Rheumatology/arthritis at University of Copenhagen. His Ph.D.- dissertation (1996) and doctoral thesis (1999) described different aspects of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and ultrasonography in knee and wrist joints affected by rheumatoid arthritis. He has co-authored more than 125 scientific articles on rheumatoid arthritis and other inflammatory arthritides.
Dr. Østergaard is currently involved in national and international clinical and imaging studies of rheumatoid arthritis and spondyloarthritis, co-chair of the OMERACT MRI in inflammatory arthritis special interest group, and member of several other international working groups within imaging in inflammatory joint diseases.