Research staff
Bo Mussmann, Head of Research, Associate professor, PhD, research radiographer

Bo is Head of Research at Radiology research unit – UNIFY – and research radiographer, Associate Professor, Postdoc at Department of Clinical Research, University of Southern Denmark.
He is responsible for the radiographic research performed at the department and University Hospital, DK.
Benjamin Schnack Rasmussen, Associate Professor, Clinical Head of Research at CAI-X, MD, PhD

Benjamin has a post doc position, and his main interests are medical technology with focus on development, evaluation and implementing & artificial intelligence (AI) from development of evaluation models to clinical trials.
Tina Hansen Barbisan, Research and Innovation coordinator

Tina has many years of experience with administrative tasks in the healthcare system. Furthermore, she has a broad experience with Communications tasks including setting up smaller or larger courses and seminars, strategic planning, social media, translation, content communication and proof-reading.
She has an ED in Business English and a number of communication courses.
Contact: thb@rsyd.dk
Janni Jensen, Radiographer, Associate Professor, PhD

Janni is a research and reporting radiographer in a post doc position and Associate Professor at University of Southern Denmark.
Her main foci are artificial intelligence (AI) within musculoskeletal radiology and radiography.
Sarah Stougaard, Data Scientist

Sarah has a data science master and is employed at our research unit to help with data management and statistical analyses.
Pia Iben Pietersen, MD, PhD, Post doc
Theresa Junker, RSN,PhD, Post Doc
Steen Kjeldsen Thomsen, Grant writer

Steen is employed as grant writer on a joint grant from OUH forsknings- & innovationspulje with department of nuclear medicine OUH
Anca Friismose, MRI radiographer, MSc, PhD student

Mohammad Elhakim, MD, PhD student

Jonas Asgaard Bojsen, MD, PhD student

Henriette List, MSc in Anthropology, PhD student

PhD title:
An anthropological inquiry of renal cancer treatment practices in the Danish health care system
Sabine Morris Delhez, MD, research assistant
Michael Pedersen, Adjunct Professor

Professor in biotechnology og bioimaging at Department of Clinical Medicine – Comparative Medicin Lab, Aarhus University
Appointed Adjunct Professor at the Research and Innovation Unit of Radiology, University of Southern Denmark and Odense University Hospital
Research plan:
Experimental diagnostic medical imaging research – Accelerated validation process and implementation in clinical practice.
Special emphases will be on the following initiatives:
1) Renal disease including cancer: Diagnostic imaging to avoid biopsy and monitor treatment response.
2) Liver disease: Diagnostic imaging to avoid biopsy and monitor treatment response.
3) Brain and kidney elastography – MRI elastography could become a new method to measure the pressure in ventricles and fibrosis in the kidneys.
Maryann Hardy, Adjunct Professor

Professor of Radiography & Imaging Practice Research, Bradford University
Vice President at the British Institute of Radiology
Appointed Adjunct Professor at the Research and Innovation Unit of Radiology, University of Southern Denmark and Odense University Hospital
Research plan:
”Radiographers’ Role in Population Safeguarding: Non-accidental Injury (NAI) / Suspected Physical Injury (SPI)”
The research area will support the highly specialized function of radiological imaging in suspected child abuse and among other aspects it will assess radiation dose and, radiographers’ skills, training etc.
Ahmed Jibril Abdi, Physicist, PhD, Guest researcher
Michael Brun Andersen, MD, Visiting Researcher
Rune Jensen, MD, Visiting Researcher
Stefan W Harders, MD, Consultant, Guest Researcher
Maja Verland, Medical student, undergraduate research year student

Maja is a medical student and is attached to our research unit during her research year project:
“Using virtual reality to verify competence in abdominal point of care ultrasound”
Anton Halldor Paulson, Medical student, undergraduate research year student

Anton is a medical student and is attached to our research unit during his research year project: