Senior Staff


EMERGE Founder – PhD

Jakob is a senior registrar in our emergency team and senior researcher at our department

Chief Consultant – PhD

Thomas is a consultant surgeon and head of strategy for emergency surgery at our center.

Post. Doc – PhD

Dunja is a Specialist Registrar/ Third year resident in our emergency surgery team and PostDoc at our department.

Research staff


PhD student – MD

Madeline focuses on abdominal wall outcomes after emergency midline laparotomies as a PhD-student besides her clinical work at out department. 

PhD-student – MD

Jannick is enrolled as a PhD-student at EMERGE, focusing on nutrition and is main investigator in the multicenter RCT – EATERS Trial

PhD-student – MD

Focusing on discharge and readmittances after surgery, Liv is enrolled as a PhD-student at EMERGE.

PhD-student – MD

Christians main focus is frailty in surgery and is working on his PhD besides clinical work at out department

PhD-student – MD

Lasse focuses on early mortality after high risk emergency laparotomies as a PhD-student besides his clinical work at out department

Andreas Werner Nærum

Upcoming PhD-student – MD

Andreas focus on pulmonary complications following emergency surgery, as well as work in our clinical department

Julie Knoblauch

RN – Research Assistant

Julie is working 50/50 as a clinical nurse/Research assistant with focus on high risk emergency laparotomies

Therese Levesen

RN – Research assistant

Therese is working 50/50 as a clinical nurse/Research assistant with focus on high risk emergency laparotomies