PAPILLON COURSE on THYROID ULTRASOUND
Speakers
Steen Bonnema

Contact Information:
Email: steen.bonnema@dadlnet.dk
Work address: Endokrinologisk afd.M, Odense UH, Kløvervænget 6, 4.sal, DK-5000 Odense C
Personal data and positions
- Born 5th.November 1959, Esbjerg, Denmark. Habitant in Odense since 1995
- Graduated as MD, January 1986, Århus University, Denmark
- Postgraduate education at various hospitals in Denmark, including university hospitals in Århus, Odense and Copenhagen (Bispebjerg and Herlev Hospitals).
- 2000: specialist in Medical Endocrinology; 2003: specialist in Internal Medicine
- 2000-2005: Staff Specialist at the Department of Endocrinology, Odense University Hospital (OUH)
- 2005-currently: Consultant at Department of Endocrinology (Thyroid Unit), OUH.
- 2018: Professor in Endocrinology, University of Southern Denmark (SDU)
- 2010-currently: member of the Danish censor-corps
- 2014-currently: Advisor for Anti-Doping Denmark
- 2016-currently: Advisor for Danish Patient Safety Authority
Doctoral theses
- Ph.D.-thesis, 2002: ‘Management of the multinodular goitre - current strategies and new approaches'
- DMSci-thesis, 2012: ‘On the factors affecting therapeutic outcome from radioiodine therapy in benign thyroid diseases’
Scientific qualifications (h-index: 43, Google Scholar; 35, Web of Science)
- Author or co-author of >130 peer-reviewed papers, especially within the field of thyroid disorders.
- Textbook chapters: Endocrinology (Elsevier), Thyroid diseases (Springer), Diabetes and Endocrinology (Oxford Textbook), The Thyroid (Wolters Kluwer), ’Medicin’ (1.+ 2.+ 3.Edition, Fadls’ forlag)
- Attended numerous international meetings and congresses. Approx.200 presentations (oral or poster presentation) as author or co-author
- Invited speaker, chairman, and discussion leader at national and international meetings
- Invited referee of more than 250 submitted papers at more than 25 different international journals
- Member of national and international guideline task force groups.
- Evaluation of PhD-theses
- Currently, international collaborations with colleagues in UK, Hungary, Germany
Major research areas
- Effects and side effects of radioiodine therapy
- Impact and treatment of goiter
- Effects of selenium supplementation in autoimmune thyroid diseases
- Development of disease-specific Quality-of-Life questionnaire (ThyPRO)
- Methods for diagnosis of thyroid cancer
- Implementation of virtual consultations
- Empowerment of patients with thyroid diseases
- Thyroid disease and oxidative stress markers
- Thyroid disease and impact on bone structure
- Optimizing treatment of hypothyroidism
- Development of point-of-care TSH measurement
Teaching/supervision
- 1997-currently: teaching/examination of medical students at SDU
- Since 2001, Associated Professor, and since 2018 Professor in Endocrinology at SDU
- Lectures at numerous national symposia and meetings, mainly on topics within thyroid diseases
- Organizer of international thyroid ultrasound courses
- 2014-currently: in charge of the senior fellows’ post-graduate education in thyroid disorders
Tutorials
- Supervisor of approximately 20 completed master, undergraduate theses, and student research year
- Supervisor of 6 completed PhD theses
- Currently, main supervisor for:
- 2019-: Camilla Bøgelund Larsen, SDU
- 2020-: Kamilla Ryom Riis, SDU
- 2021-: Stephanie Vierø, SDU
Editorships
- 2009-2012: Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism
- 2014- currently: Journal of Endocrinological Investigation
- 2017- currently: European Thyroid Journal
- 2019- currently: Turkish Journal of Endocrinology and Metabolism
Awards / Prizes
- 2016: Best Reviewer Award, European Thyroid Journal
- 2018: Prize award (1 mill dKr for scientific research) ‘Citizen Science 2018’
Grants received during professorship (starting 2018)
- 2019: dKr.4.025.000, Danish Ministry of Health (satspulje)
- 2019: dKr.800.000, Danske Regioners Medicin- og Behandlingspulje
- 2019: dKr.100.000, Beckett foundation
- 2019: dKr.200.000, Den Nissenske Familiefond
- 2019: dKr.1.100.000, PhD grants (SDU and RSD) for Camilla B.Larsen
- 2020: dKr.40.000, Danish Thyroid Federation
- 2020: dKr.550.000, PhD grants (RSD) for Kamilla Ryom Riis
- 2020: dKr.5.000.000, Danish Ministry of Health (satspulje)
Management and administration tasks (clinically and scientifically)
- 2001-05: Secretary, Danish Thyroid Association.
- 2005-2018: Manager of the Thyroid Unit at OUH
- 2008: Head, Department of Emergency Medicine, OUH, during establishment
- 2018-currently: Medical Specialist in charge of the Thyroid Unit at OUH
- 2019-currently: Medical Sp ecialist in charge of the Unit for Arterial Hypertension at OUH
- 2017-currently: Head, Council of Senior Consultants, OUH
- 2014-currently: Sponsor of multicenter trial CATALYST (effect of selenium in autoimmune thyroiditis)
- 2020-currently: Sponsor of MAGNOLIA (trials focusing on improving patient empowerment
September, 2021