Our leadership team

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Education

MSc in Medicine (cand.med.)

Mette Aaboe Hansen
Deputy director

Centre for Medicines Licensing & Pharmacovigilance

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Education

Master of Laws (cand.jur).

Responsibilities

Department for Quality Assessment & Clinical Trials
Department for Regulatory & Clinical Assessment
Department for Pharmacovigilance
Centre Support, Projects & Data
Centre Legal Services & International Relations
EMA Project Management

Merete Hermann
Deputy Director

Centre for Control, Medical Devices & Availability

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MSc in Pharmacy (cand.pharm.)

Responsibilities

Department for Control & Security of Supply
Department for Medical Devices
Department for Pharmacoeconomics & Availability
Centre Support, Projects & Data
Centre Legal Services

Sara Westengaard
Deputy Director

Centre for Organisational Services

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Education

Master of Laws (cand.jur.)

Responsibilities

Department for Finance & Analyses
Department for IT & Digital Transformation
Directors Office & Legal Services
HR & Communication

Departments and heads of departments

Henrik Grosen Nielsen
Director of Department

Finance & Analysis

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MSc in Political Science (cand.scient.pol.) and Master of Arts (cand.mag.)

Responsibilities

Finance Act, follow up of expenditures, management audit, economical analyses, quality control, LEAN, management by objectives and operational management.

Lars Henningsen
Director of Department

IT & Digital Transformation

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Master of Arts (cand.mag.)

Responsibilities

Development and execution of the IT & digitalisation strategy, IT project portfolio, IT project management and the quality of IT systems, development tasks, supplier collaboration, contract management, management of outsourced IT tasks and information security. Interactions between the IT systems of the Danish Medicines Agency and the European Medicines Agency. Responsible for assessment and implementation of new technology in the IT area. Development of the Danish Medicines Agency’s digital transformation.

Nanna Aaby Kruse
Director of Department

Quality Assessment & Clinical Trials

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Education

MSc in Pharmacy (cand.pharm.)

Responsibilities

Case management, clinical trials, pharmaceutical quality, toxicology and pharmacokinetic evaluation.

Hanne Lomholt Larsen
Director of Department

Regulatory & Clinical Assessment

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Education

MSc in Medicine (cand.med.)

Responsibilities

Regulatory and clinical evaluation of veterinary and human medicines in connection with the authorisation of products. Cross-disciplinary tasks in the veterinary medicine and medical fields.

Line Michan
Director of Department

Pharmacovigilance

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PhD in Biology and Pharmacology

Responsibilities

Pharmacovigilance at the national and European level. Running of external collaborations on adverse reactions and pharmacovigilance. System owner of the Danish Medicines Agency’s pharmacovigilance system landscape.

Jeanne Majland
Director of Department

Control & Security of Supply

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Education

MSc in Pharmacy (cand.pharm.)

Responsibilities

Control of medicines, companies, clinical trials and more. Company authorisations and import and export certificates for medicines and euphoriant substances. Complaints and reports on product quality defects, including the recall of medicines. Compassionate use permits and security of supply.

Jeppe Larsen
Director of Department

Medical Devices

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MSc in Management Engineering

Responsibilities

Responsible for the Medical Devices department, including the units Development of Medical Devices, Market Surveillance & User Safety and External Collaboration & Coordination. Implementation of the medical devices regulation (MDR) and the in vitro diagnostic medical devices regulation (IVDR). The register of participants in the medical devices area. Collection of fees on medical devices. Clinical investigation of medical devices. Member of MDCG, HMA MDCG, CAMD. Danish participation in relation to IMDRF, AI and SaMD. Market surveillance and safety monitoring of medical devices.

Kim Helleberg Madsen
Director of Department

Pharmacoeconomics & Availability

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Education

MSc in Political Science (cand.scient.pol.)

Responsibilities

The availability of medicines, Medicine Prices, pharmacies, reimbursement and nutritional products, HTA and healthcare professionals’ relationships with the industry

Claus Møldrup
Director of Department

Data Analytics Centre (DAC)

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Education

PhD. Pharm.

Responsibilities

DAC works to transform big data on medicine and medicine devices, by utilizing AI and ML, into methods and knowledge that can benefit patients, providers and pharma. It is my responsibility, together with my team, to set direction, and ensure that we get maximum benefit from the extensive amounts of health data at our disposal.