Education and training

June 1981: Student from Ordrup Gymnasium

August 1981 - November 1989: MSc in Political Science, University of Copenhagen

September 1993 - June 1999: MSc, University of Copenhagen

Experience

October 1989 - December 1993: Economist at National Accounts, Statistics Denmark, Ministry of Economic Affairs

October 1999 - March 2001: Rotation: Internal Medicine, Gentofte Hospital, Orthopaedic Surgeon, Herlev Hospital and practice reserve physician

April 2000 - December 2001: Introductory position, thoracic surgery, Gentofte Hospital

January 2002: Surgical assistant, cardiac surgery department, Hamlet

February 2002 - January 2003: Introductory position, Surgical Gastroenterology, Rigshospitalet

March 2003 - June 2003: Introductory position, orthopedic surgery, Hvidovre Hospital

July 2003 - September 2005: Trainee in surgery: Urology, Herlev Hospital, thoracic surgery, Gentofte Hospital, surgical gastroenterology, Herlev Hospital

October 2005 - October 2006: 1st registrar, surgical gastroenterology, Amager Hospital

November 2006 - September 2008: 1st registrar, surgical gastroenterology, Hvidovre Hospital

October 2008 - 2011: Department physician, surgical gastroenterology, Hvidovre Hospital

2012 - February 2020: Consultant, Surgical Gastroenterology, Hvidovre Hospital

2013 - February 2020: Consultant, Surgical Gastroenterology, Hvidovre Hospital

August 2023 - April 2024: Specialist practice in surgery

March 2020 - : Gildhøj (now Capio). Consultant responsible for the introduction of surgical gastroenterology

August 2024 - : Consultant Surgeon Department K, Bispebjerg Hospital

Other information

Teaching

September 1989 - June 1991: Theoretical statistics on the HA program at CBS

August 1991 - January 1996: Macroeconomic macro theory on the Master's degree program

September 1995 - June 1998: Medical school statistics

2010-2011: Clinical teaching in surgery in the 9th semester

2011-2014: Distribution of articles for Tuesday review and joint surgical and gastromedical teaching on Wednesdays

2015 - February 2020: Biannual surgical courses for the department's junior doctors

2016 - February 2020: Instructor in surgery on A-courses/Grisis courses

Research & Development

2003: Familial Aggretion of Intracranial Aneurysms in an Inuit Patient Population in Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland). Lars Lindgaard, Vagn Eskesen, Flemming Gjerris & Niels Vidiendal Olsen, Neurosurgery 52, 357-363, 2003

2014: Emergency high-risk abdominal surgery - effect on following a perioperative optimized protocol. L.T. Tengberg, M. Bay-Nielsen, M. L. Lauritsen, L. Lindgaard, J. Orbaek, L. Veyhe, N. B. Foss, Poster. ERAS

2014: Acceptable effect of multimodal analgesic treatment after a Bascom Cleft Lift operation, Saphana Mohamed, Billy Bjarne Kristensen, Lars Lindgaard, Tue Bisgaard, Danish Medical Journal 62/1, January 2015

2018: The outcome of patients with acute colonic pseudo-obstruction following Caesarean section. Katarina Levic, Thukirtha Chelliah, Pernielle Fog Svendsen, Christina Rørbye, Lars Lindgaard, Orhan Bulut, Poster DKS

2019: Necrotizing Pancreatitis: Minimally invasive treatment by Palle Nordblad Schmidt and Lars Lindgaard (Hvidovre Hospital). DSGH and DKS further education course

2022: Simultaneous endoscopic and video-assisted retroperitoneal debridement in walled-off pancreatic necrosis using a laparoscopic access platform: Two case reports. Lars Lindgaard, Morten Laksáfoss Lauritsen, Srdan Novovic, Erik Feldager Hansen, John Gásdal Karstensen, Palle Nordblad Schmidt, World J Gastroenterol 2022 February 7; 28(5): 588-593

2023: Endoscopic transvaginal drainage and necrosectomy of presacral walled-off pancreatic necrosis. Mia Prindahl Ærenlund, Lars Lindgaard, Srdan Novovic, Morten Laksáfoss Lauritsen, John Gásdal Karstensen, Palle Nordblad Schmidt, Endoscopy 2023; 55: E940-E941

Courses

November 2002: ATLS

March 2003: DAVOS Open and laparoscopic surgical techniques

April 2004: SOSA

August 2004: Colon surgery

November 2004: Operative Surgery

May 2006: Gastroenterology and Hepatology (I)

June 2007: Wounds: Diagnosis and treatment

September 2007: Gastrointestinal cancers

October 2007: Laparoscopic surgery

December 2009: Benign Colorectal Diseases, St. Gallen

June 2011: Laparo-endoscopic single-site surgery, Switzerland

November 2012: Live surgery, Strattice, London

February 2014: Course for head supervisors, DIMS

December 2014: National Masterclass in treatment of upper GI bleeding, Odense, Denmark

March 2015: NPWT Experts Meeting, Smith & Nephew, Berlin

December 2015: Biomaterials, Baxter, Vienna

Committees/user groups

2011: NPWT tender, RegionH