"Hearts and minds" Visiting professor invites collaboration with IHW colleagues
Published: 3 March 2022
Susanne Pedersen, Professor of Cardiac Psychology at the Department of Psychology, University of Southern Denmark, has joined IHW for a 3-month sabbatical and would welcome the opportunity to meet up with UofG academics who share her research interests
Professor Susanne Pedersen, hosted by Rod Taylor, will be in Glasgow as part of her sabbatical from early March to June 2022. Below is her biosketch. Susanne would welcome the opportunity to meet up with Glasgow academics who may share her research interests. If you would like to meet with her, please email Susanne or Rod.
Susanne S Pedersen is Professor of Cardiac Psychology and Head of Department at the Department of Psychology, University of Southern Denmark. She also has a part-time position at the Department of Cardiology, Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark.
She obtained her BA Honours in psychology in Canada, and her Master’s in psychology and PhD in Denmark. Before moving back to Denmark in 2014, she worked for 12 years at the Department of Cardiology, the Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam and at the Department of Medical and Clinical Psychology at Tilburg University, the Netherlands.
Her research focuses on the interplay between psychology and cardiology (heart and mind), with emphasis on the psychosocial consequences of heart disease and how to mitigate its impact on patient-reported outcomes and prognosis through intervention. In recent years, she has moved into clinical trials and the field of eHealth, providing digital solutions (e.g., online treatment of depression and anxiety in patients with heart disease attending cardiac rehabilitation) to improve the quality of care for patients with heart disease and co-morbid mental disorders. So far, she has received 6 grants to fund this line of multidisciplinary research, which is the future in psychosomatic medicine.
She has a large national and international network with leading scholars in the field.
She has received several prizes and honours, e.g. for her PhD dissertation, oral abstracts, and posters and a Fulbright Scholarship.
She has authored or co-authored more than 250 research papers in peer-reviewed international journals and contributed to more than 12 book chapters on the interplay between psychological factors and heart disease – e.g. the Textbook of Applied Medical Psychology: A multidisciplinary approach, 2022; the ESC Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine, 2nd edition, 2009; 3rd edition, 2017 [coordinator of the chapter]; Heart and Mind, the Practice of Cardiac Psychology, 2nd edition, 2011; and Percutaneous Interventional Cardiovascular Medicine – the PCR-EAPCI textbook, 2012 & 2016.
She has given more than 140 keynotes, oral or poster presentations at national and international meetings and received several prestigious research grants, e.g., from the European Union, the Lundbeck Foundation, TrygFonden, the Danish Heart Foundation, the Dutch Heart Foundation, the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), Sygesikring Danmark, Odense University Research Foundation.
She has supervised 16 PhD students and 3 pre-graduate students and is currently the primary supervisor of 4 PhD students. Her h-index is 47 and her papers have been cited 4326 times.
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First published: 3 March 2022