Main research topics
Cancer: rehabilitation, diagnostic pathways, organisation and interdisciplinary collaboration, socioeconomic inequality, epidemiology.

Pharmacoepidemiology:
Antidepressive agents, antihypertensive agents, physician practice patterns, socioeconomic inequality, compliance, elderly.

Main topics regarding quality development
Prevention in primary care, internal organisation of primary care units, reasons for encounter, academic research environment

Born 1967

Education
1993 Qualified medical doctor, University of Copenhagen
2004 PhD: Prescribing of antidepressants: a pharmacoepidemiological study of patient and physician factors in general practice.
2007 Research Management Course, CBS: Copenhagen Business School
2009 Teacher-Training Programme for Assistant Lecturers at the University of Southern Denmark

Professional assignments
2009 Head of National Research Center of Cancer Rehabilitation Research, University of Southern Denmark
2005-2009 Deputy Head, Research Unit for General Practice, University of Southern Denmark 2004-2005 Senior Researcher, Research Unit for General Practice and Audit Project Odense, Danske Regioner, Odense
2000-2004 PhD student, Research Unit for General Practice and Audit Project Odense, University of Southern Denmark
1997-2004 Research assistant/ PhD student, Research Unit for General Practice and Audit Project Odense, University of Southern Denmark
1993-1995 Registrar at hospitals

10 representative publications

L Jarlbaek, DG Hansen, E Bruera, M Andersen. Frequency of Opioid Use in a Population of Cancer Patients During the Trajectory of the Disease. Clin Oncology 2010; 22:199-207; (doi:10.1016/j.clon.2009.12.002)

P Toftedal, DG Hansen, C Nielsen, S Lillevang, T Hansen, S Husby. Questionnaire-based case-finding of low-symptomatic celiac disease in an unselected population of 8-9 year-olds. Pediatrics 2010; 125(3),. e518-e524 (doi:10.1542/peds.2009-0375)

J Larsen, H Støvring, J Kragstrup, DG Hansen. Can differences in medical drug compliance between European countries be explained by social factors? Analyses based on data from the European Social Survey, Round 2. BMC Public Health 2009; 9:145 (doi:10.1186/1471-2458-9-145)

DG Hansen, NK Rasmussen, A Munck. Personalets deltagelse i forebyggelse blandt voksne patienter i almen lægepraksis. Ugeskr Læger 2008; 170(25): 2228-31

DG Hansen, A Gichangi, W Vach, LH Felde, J Larsen. Early discontinuation: More frequent among general practitioners with high levels of prescribing. Eur J Clin Pharmacol 2007; 63: 861-65; (doi 10.1007/s00228-007-0330-4)

DG Hansen, JU Rosholm, A Gichangi, W Vach. Increased use of antidepressants at the end of life: populations-based study among people aged 65 years and above. Age & Ageing 2007; 36:449-54; (doi:10.109/ageing/afm056)

J Zito, H Tobi, LTW de Jong-van den Berg, JM Fegert, DJ Safer, K Janhsen, DG Hansen, JF Gardner. Antidepressant prevalence for youths: a multi-national comparison. Pharmacoepi & Drug Safety 2006; 15:793-98

DG Hansen, W Vach, JU Rosholm, J Søndergaard, LF Gram, J Kragstrup. Early discontinuation of antidepressants in general practice: association with patient and prescriber characteristics. Fam Pract 2004; 21:1-7

DG Hansen, J Søndergaard, W Vach, LF Gram, JU Rosholm, PB Mortensen, J Kragstrup. Socio-economic inequalities in first-time use of antidepressants: a population-based study. Eur J Clin Pharmacol 2004; 60:51-55

DG Hansen, J Søndergaard, W Vach, LF Gram, JU Rosholm, J Kragstrup. Antidepressant drug use in general practice: inter-practice variation and association with practice characteristics. Eur J Clin Pharmacol 2003; 59:143-9