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Laszlo Hegedüs, MD, DMSc
Researcher Head
Department of Endocrinology
Odense University Hospital
J. B. Winsløws Vej 4
Odense, Denmark
Laszlo Hegedüs is Head of research and a Consultant Physician at the Department of Endocrinology, Odense University Hospital. Based on a research career within the field of the thyroid, and spanning more than 35 years and nearly 500 publications, he was elected as the next President of The European Thyroid Association, at the recent annual meeting of this society in Belgrade, Serbia. Professor Hegedüs will serve in this role from 2018 to 2021.
Laszlo Hegedüs qualified in medicine at the University of Copenhagen in 1980, had become a specialist in endocrinology by 1992, and was appointed full professor at the University of Southern Denmark in 2006. Over the years, he has published more than 480 papers and numerous textbook chapters, and supervised and mentored over 50 clinicians and researchers during their academic degrees.
Dr. Hegedüs’s research areas include thyroid cancer, thyroid associated ophthalmopathy, thyroid diseases in pregnancy, thyroid disease in childhood, ultrasound-guided sclerotherapy (ethanol and laser) for nodular thyroid disease, high-dose recombinant human thyrotropin (rhTSH)-stimulated radioiodine therapy of benign nodular goitre.
Representative Publications:
The Impact of Esophageal Compression on Goiter Symptoms Before and After Thyroid Surgery
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