Chief Physician in Clinical Biochemistry at Copenhagen University Hospital, Denmark
Professor in Genetic Epidemiology at University of Copenhagen, Denmark

In 1985 he graduated as a medical doctor from University of Copenhagen. Scientific education included 2 years with Professor Steen Stender at Copenhagen University Hospital in Denmark, 2 years with Professor Donald Zilversmit at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, and 2 years with Professor Barry Lewis at St. Thomas's Hospital in London, UK.

In 1990 he was awarded Doctor of Medical Sciences by University of Copenhagen and in 1996 Specialist in Clinical Biochemistry by the Danish Board of Health. Clinical training includes cardiology, hyperlipidemia, gastroenterology, internal medicine, and clinical biochemistry.

Prof. Nordestgaard has for more than 25 years continued his interest in the pathogenesis, diagnosis and treatment of familial hypercholesterolemia, hyperlipidemia, atherosclerosis and cardiovascular disease, and has written extensively on these conditions in medical textbooks, original articles and in consensus statements. Over the past 20 years he has given numerous talks on how best to treat familial hypercholesterolemia and other hyperlipidemia and how to diagnose and prevent atherosclerosis and cardiovascular disease.

In 1988-97 he acted as an Executive Committee member and in 1993-1997 as chairman of the Scandinavian Society for Atherosclerosis Research. In addition, in 1998-01 and in 2013-16 he was an Executive Committee member of the European Atherosclerosis Society and in 1999-02 an Executive Scientific Committee member of the European Society of Cardiology. He has organised or co-organised 8 Scandinavian, 8 European, and 2 US conferences, mainly on atherosclerosis and cardiovascular disease in general.

He is chairing the Copenhagen General Population Study and is also a steering committee member of the Copenhagen City Heart Study.

Prof. Børge G. Nordestgaard has supervised 44 Ph.D. students and 20 post doctoral fellows, and has published 572 original articles and 85 reviews, book chapters, consensus statements, & editorials. His H-index is 91 and he is listed among the 3000 most influential researcher World-wide.

Original articles include publications in New England Journal of Medicine, Lancet, Nature, Science, Nature Genetics, Journal of the American Medical Association, British Medical Journal, PLos Medicine, Circulation, Journal of the American College of Cardiology and European Heart Journal