Contact information:

E-mail:		bxc@steno.dk
Snail mail:		Steno Diabetes Center Niels Steensens Vej 2 DK - 2820 Gentofte Denmark
Telephone:		(+45) 44 43 87 38
Mobile:		(+45) 30 75 87 38
Fax:		(+45) 44 43 73 13
Map location:		55 45'18.23" N, 12 31'29.79" E

Career:
Senior Statistician, Steno Diabetes Center, 1999-
Senior Statistician, Danish Veterinary Laboratory, 1995-1999
Statistician, Danish Cancer Registry, 1984-1995
Research assistant, Statistical Research Unit 1983-84
Cand. scient. (MSc), mathematical statistics 1983, University of Copenhagen

Scientific interests:
General biostatistics. Epidemiology. Random effects / mixed models. Comparison of measurement methods.

Selected papers.

CV as pdf-file Last modified: February 2012
Short CV. Last modified: February 2012
Dansk CV. Sidst opdateret: Februar 2012

Teaching

• Steno Diabetes Center, STAR course in Diabetes Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Aurangabad 5-8 February 2005.
• Steno Diabetes Center: Staff courses
• Department of Biostatistics.
  External lecturer from 1998.
  • Basic statistics for medical researchers. Course material here.
• Co-organizer of the course on Bayesian data analysis, Copenhagen, 13-17 August 2012
  
• Co-organizer of the course on Statistical Practise in Epidemiology using R.
• Nordic Summer School in Cancer Epidemiology 2011.
• Modern Demographic methods in Epidemiology:
  • Stockholm, 2-3 February 2006.
  • Oslo, 28 February - 1 March 2007. (with Paul Lambert)
  • Aalborg, 14-16 January 2008.
  • Melbourne, February 2008. (with Paul Dickman)
  • St Andrews, 1-3 June 2010.
• Age-Period-Cohort models:
  • Department of Biostatistics, University of Copenhagen, 2004
  • Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, March 2009
  • Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, May 2010.
• Statistical Analysis of Method Comparison Studies
  • Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, November 2007.
  • School of Population Health, Melbourne, February 2008.
  • Adelaide, February 2009.

Talks

• Demography and epidemiology: Age-Period-Cohort models in the computer age., ISCB 26, Szeged, Hungary, August 2005. Technical report with details. A preprint with more details is available here .
• Who needs the Cox model anyway?
  Department of Biostatistics, University of Copenhagen, February 2006.,
  Department of Biostatistics, University of Southern Denmark, March 2006..
  Preprint covering the topics of the talk.
  
• Time-dependent variables, Danish Epidemiological Society, Hindsgavl Slot, September 2006.
  
• Who needs the Cox model anyway., Statistical Society of Australia, Melbourne, 13 December, 2006.
• Comparing and predicting between measurement methods., CEBU, Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne, 14 December, 2006.
• Comparing measurement methods (handouts), (slides), DSTS, 16 May 2007, Aalborg University.
• Comparing measurement methods (handouts), (slides), ISCB, August 2007, Alexandroupolis, Greece.
• Why R-squared is meaningless (slides), (8-ups), Steno Diabetes Center, repeatedly.
• Method Agreement for Continuous Responses (handouts), (slides), NordStat2008, June 2008, Vilnius, Lithuania
• Models for Method Comparison Studies (handouts), (slides), 29th ISCB, August 2008, Copenhagen
• Future burden of Diabetes: The Danish National Diabetes Register (handouts), 44th EASD, September 2008, Rome
• The Danish National Diabetes Register (handouts), ACHORD scientific retreat, March 2009, Banff, Canada.
• Lexis diagrams and analysis of register data, (3-ups), Statistics for Health Registers and Linked Databases, Milton Keynes, UK, May 2009.
• Practical aspects of multistate modelling: Representation, timescales and prediction, (3-ups), International Statistical Institute 57th session, Durban, August 2009.
• Cancer pattern among Danish diabetes patients, (3-ups), Association of Nordic Cancer Registries, Sigtuna, Sweden, September 2009
• Practical aspects of multistate modelling: Representation, timescales and prediction, (3-ups), Department of Biostatistics, University of Copenhagen, November 2009.
• Pharmacovigilance based on routine datasets: Possibilities and pitfalls, (3-ups), (8-ups), European Diabetes Epidemiology Group, Porto Helio, Greece, May 2010

Posters

• BMI and waist circumference predicts diabetes., EDEG meeting, Vietri sul Mare, April 2004. Technical report with details.
• Age-period-cohort models beyond the 5 by 5 year classes., ISCB, Leiden, Netherlands, August 2004.
  An exposition of the ideas in the poster can be found here.
• The 10 commandments of APC-models, ISCB, Geneva, Switzerland, August 2006.
  A thorough exposition of the ideas in the poster can be found here.

Software

• Examples and programs for splitting follow-up time in cohort studies.
• A package for epidemiological analysis using R.
• An experimental R-package for analysis of method comparison experiments. R.