Lene Terslev

Dr. Lene Terslev gained an MD from Copenhagen University, Denmark, 1994. She obtained the PhD degree from Copenhagen University in 2004 with the thesis "Doppler Ultrasound in the Detection and Quantification of Inflammation in Rheumatoid Arthritis". She finished her specialization in Rheumatology and Internal Medicine in 2009 and has been the Head of Rheumatology Ultrasound Division, Rigshospitalet - Glostrup, Denmark, since 2010. The department is a EULAR Center of Excellence and a EULAR training and research center for ultrasound and MRI.  Dr. Terslev has been a member of the Faculty of the EULAR Sonography Courses since 2005, and is teaching on international (North America, Asia, Middle East and Europe) and Danish courses in both ultrasound and rheumatology. She has been a member of, and since 2016 the co-chair of, the OMERACT Special Interest Group on Ultrasound. From 2013 to 2016 she was a member of the EULAR scientific committee and since 2016 the chair of EULAR Standing Committee of Musculoskeletal Imaging.  She has participated in the EFSUMB Task and Finish Group in Rheumatology since 2012 with the focus on ultrasound competency assessment in Europe.

She has published more than 90 papers on ultrasound and rheumatology including eight book chapters in this field and is currently the ssupervisor for 4 Ph.d students with theses on Ultrasound in Rheumatology (psoriatic arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, gout and vasculitis).