Lone Schmidt

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Profile

• • Contributes substantially nationally and internationally, to research in reproductive health with a special focus on infertility, assisted reproduction, prevention of infertility and family building
  • Developed and implemented questionnaire-based infertility-specific measurement scales for stress, coping, and communication. The instruments have been translated and used in more than 30 countries throughout the world
  • Established in 2000 an international, inter-disciplinary research group involving researchers from Denmark, Estonia, Portugal, Sweden, UK, USA; The Copenhagen Multi-centre Psychosocial Infertility (COMPI) Research Group
  • Combines quantitative and qualitative research methods
  • Contributes substantially to the development and running of pre- and postgraduate educations at the Faculty of Health, University of Copenhagen
  • Participates substantially in the public health debate within reproductive health policy
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Academic education and degrees 

• 2006
  Doctor of Medical Sciences (DMSci), University of Copenhagen
  Thesis: Infertility and assisted reproduction in Denmark. Epidemiology and psychosocial consequences.

  1996
  PhD in Medicine, University of Copenhagen
  Thesis: Psychosocial consequences of infertility and treatment.

  1986
  Medical Doctor, University of Copenhagen

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  Professional experience

  Since 2017 - Professor wsr in Public Health and Infertility, University of Copenhagen, Department of Public Health

  2000 - 2017
  Associate Professor, University of Copenhagen, Department of Public Health

  1997 - 1999
  Assistant Professor in Health Services Research, University of Copenhagen, Department of Public Health

  1996 - 1997
  Vice Deputy Program Director, University of Copenhagen, Master of Public Health

  1992 - 1995
  PhD-student, University of Copenhagen, Department of Social Medicine

  1986 - 1991
  Internship and registrar in obstetrics and gynaecology, internal medicine, and surgery.

  Selected appointments

  2021 

• International Fertility Education Initiative (IFEI), Member of network

  2015
  The Council on Health and Disease Prevention, Member of Working Group on Prevention of Infertility

  2015
  Coordination for Gender Research, Steering Committee, University of Copenhagen

  2014
  WHO, Steering Committee for Guidelines and Nomenclature for infertility investigation and treatment

  2010 - 2020            
  Danish Fertility Society, Member of Fertility Awareness Working Group             

  2008 – 2011
  European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE), Member of Task Force on Reproduction and Society