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Professor: Kjeld Møller Pedersen - CURRICULUM VITAE 

Affilliation: 
Department of Business and Economics
University of Southern Denmark
Campusvej 55, DK.5230 Odense M
e-mail: [email protected],
direct telephone +45 65503847
and: Department of Business and Management, University of Aalborg (20%) from 2012 

Positions held:
1975-1987 Odense University (assistant professor to full professor, economics)
1987-1991 CEO, County Health Service, County of Vejle
1991-1999 The LEGO Group, senior vice president, executive vice president,
(changing over time: finance, HR, IT, PR, strategic planning)
1998-1999 Adjunct professor, health economics, University of Odense
1999- Professor, health economics and health policy, University of Southern Denmark, Odense. – (Part time as of Sep. 1. 2010)

2012 -  Aalborg University (20%) Health Economics

Committee membership in relation to health and social care:

2021 -  Vice chairman, committee on the health care in Greenland 

2017-2018 Member of Advisory Group established by the Minister of Innovation, appointed by the Minister of Innovation

2016-2017:  Member of expert group on adult supplementary training, appointed by the minister of educaton
2008-2013 Member of expert committee on hospital investments, appointed by the Minister of Health
2007-2008 Member of Quality Reform Working Party, appointed by the Prime Minister
2007-2008 Committee on discrimination because of handicap, appointed by the Minister of Economics and Business Affairs
2001-2003 Chairman of the Advisory committee on the health care Sector. Appointed by the Minister of Health
1996-1997 Member of ‘ the hospital commission’, minister appointed
1985- Member of the commission on general practice, minister appointed
1994-1999 Several working groups in the Association of Danish Counties, 1987-1991 and the Federation of Danish Industries 1977 - 1977-1987 Membership of about 25 working groups/committees appointed by the National Board of Health, national research, private organization etc.

Board membership (current)
Chairman, Filidelfia (Epilepsy Hospital, nursing homes etc.)
Chairman, Council for adult vocational training
Member, board of Dafolo A/S, Chairman the Dafolo Foundation
Member, board of The Karen Tolstrup Foundation
Member, board of the Lunge Association (Lungeforeningen)

Previous board memberships

2001-2018: Chairman of the board of the National Institute of Occupational Health

1999-2018:  Board Member, Statistics Denmark 

2011-2015: board member, Teres Medicail Group A/S
2007-2012 Chairman of the 'the office' of the Union of Danish Studets of Medicine,FADL, University of Southern Denmark
2008-2011 Member, Zealand Care A/S
2003-2006 Hørsholm Hospital , 2006 as chairman
2001-2005 Chairman of Center for Register Based Research at Aarhus University
2000-2008 Chairmann/member, board of Muusmann A/S
2000-2000 Member, board of PLS A/S
1999-2005 The Hamlet Hospital, Copenhagen (vice-chairman)
1999-2005 Transmedica A/S (chairman)
1998-2004 Member, Aabenraa Hospital
1995-2001 Center for Technology Supported Teaching, CTU/leaning Lab Denmark

Membership of working groups, research evaluation etc. 

Member of advisory committee Veterancenteret, Ringsted
2005-2008 Priority committee for public health, Swedish council for working life and social research, Evaluation of Swedish health economics research, appointed by the Swedish council for working life and social research, 2005-2006 
2005- 2007 Steering group for evaluation of the Norwegian health care 2 reform, Norwegian Research Council. The Research Council of Norway,  
2004-2008 Evaluation committee for applications to Helsefonden, appointed by the Danish Research Council for the Social Sciences.
1997-2001 Board of Appeals in Telecommunication (Teleklagenævnet)
1995-1999 Business Advisory Council. IMD

Membership, professional associations

The Society of Danish Health Economists (chairman 2018 - )
Danish Association of Economists (Nationaløkonomisk Forening)
American Economic Association
International Health Economics Association
Danish Academy of Technical Sciences (ATV)
Research network on quality and patient safety

Membership, misc. 
2010-2011 Two working groups, the Academy of Technical Sciences, ATV: the Health Care Sector of the future and Research and Innovation Policy
2002-2012 The Danish Cancer Society’s committee on patient support
Board of governors of ‘Bedre psykiatri’ (‘Better psychiatry’ – association of relatives)
Advisory Board, Center of Excellence, Silkeborg Hospital
Advisory Board, Midt-lab, Region of Midtjylland

Journals & Books (editor & co-editor)
1992-1996 Member of editorial board for a series of books on the Danish health care sector, FADLs Forlag
1989-1991 Member of editorial board for JOURNAL (the National Board of Health)
1983-1992 Advisory editor of Social Science and Medicine
1981-1992 Associate editor of Journal of Health Economics

Miscellaneous
2012 Medico-prisen, the annual recognition by the Danish Medico-technical industry (Medicoindustrien)
2010 Cross of the order of chivalry (Ridder af Dannebrogordenen)
2008 Danish Who's Who (Den blå bog)
1992 Winner of the Lundbeck Foundation Price competitionon
1984 The MEDIF-price
1984 The annual university lecture, Odense Universitete, 1984 (festforelæsning ved årsfesten)

Research interests
Hospital Management
Health policy and decision-making
Health care reforms
The use of economics evaluations for actual decision-making
Use of transaction cost economics/new institutional economics as a paradigm for health economics
Measurement and valuation of health status Quality and enonomics

Summary of publications 
Books, 17 
Book chapters, 69 
Scientific articles, 94
Research reports, working papers etc., 43
Conference papers (incomplete), 14
Newspapers, reviws, debate, editorials etc. (incompete list), 102 

Research dissemnation:
An average of 60 external lectures per year 2000-2010 to research groups, politicians, professional societies etc.

Forskningsområde

• Sundhedspolitik og beslutningstagning 
  Sundhedsreformer
  Anvendelse af økonomiske evalueringer for aktuel beslutningstagning 
• Anvendelse af transaktionsomkostninger økonomi som et paradigme for sundhedsøkonomi 
• Måling og evaluering af sundhedstilstand