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Researchers´ Profiles - Preben Homøe

Preben Homøe is an associate professor and consultant in otorhinolaryngology and head of the section of Head and Neck Surgery at the Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery Rigshospitalet, University Hospital of Copenhagen since 2002. He graduated in medicine in 1987 from the University of Copenhagen and attained specialist competence in 1999. From 2001 until 2004 he has been responsible for otolaryngology in Greenland via a contract between the Home Rule Government of Greenland and Rigshospitalet in Copenhagen. Since 1999 he has once a year served as consulting ENT-specialist for three to four weeks in different towns in Greenland

At present he is chairman of the Danish/Greenlandic Society for Circumpolar Health and in the board of the IUCH.

He has conducted own research projects in Greenland but also projects in cooperation with epidemiological researchers. His scientific interests is mainly otitis media in all its aspects and upper respiratory tract infections among the Inuit population of Greenland but also hearing impairment and nasopharyngeal and salivary gland carcinomas along with other cancers of the head and neck region. In 1996 he defended a Ph.D. thesis and in 2001 his doctoral thesis. Both theses concerned otitis media in Greenland (see publication list). He is a scientific reviewer of several journals. He has published 25 peer-reviewed monographs and papers and given more than 70 lectures at scientific meetings.

Selected publications:

  • Homøe P, Lynnerup N. Pneumatization of the temporal bones in 200-year old Greenlandic Inuit crania. Acta Otolaryngologica (Stockh) 1991, 6; 1109-16.
     
  • Homøe P, Lynnerup N, Videbæk H. CT-scanning of ancient Greenlandic Inuit temporal bones. Acta Otolaryngologica (Stockh) 1992; 112: 674-79.
     
  • Lynnerup N, Lynnerup O, Homøe P. A computer program for planimetric analysis of digitized images. Computers in Biology and Medicine 1992; 3: 207-17.
     
  • Homøe P, Lynnerup N, Rasmussen N, Skovgaard LT. A statistical model estimating the occurrence of otitis media from temporal bone pneumatization. Annals of Otology, Rhinology & Laryngology 1994; 103: 469-73.
     
  • Homøe P, Bretlau P. Cholesteatomas in Greenlandic Inuit. A retrospective study and follow-up of treated cases from 1976-91. Arctic Medical Research 1994; 53: 86-90.
     
  • Bille M, Homøe P, Vesterhauge S, Rixen M, Bretlau P. Bone-anchored auricular prosthesis. Ugeskrift for Læger (Danish Medical Journal) 1994; 156: 40: 5835-39.
     
  • Homøe P, Christensen RB, Bretlau P. Hearing in elementary school children in Nuuk and Sisimiut, Greenland. Arctic Medical Research 1995; 54: 145-50.
     
  • Homøe P, Lynnerup N, Skovgaard LT. Pneumatization and otitis media in Greenlandic Inuit before European colonization. Journal of Otolaryngology 1995; 24: 330-6.
     
  • Homøe P, Lynnerup N, Skovgaard LT, Rasmussen N. Estimation of otitis media in ancient populations; A study of past and present Greenlandic Inuit. Journal of Laryngology and Otology 1996; 110: 1114-19.
     
  • Homøe P, Prag J, Farholt S, Henrichsen J, Hornsleth A, Kilian M, Jensen JS High rate of nasopharyngeal carriage of potential pathogens among children in Greenland: Results of a clinical survey of middle-ear disease. Clinical Infectious Diseases 1996; 23: 1081-90.
     
  • Homøe P, Christensen RB, Bretlau P. Prevalence of otitis media in a survey of 591 unselected Greenlandic children. International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology 1996; 36: 215-30.
     
  • Homøe P. Pneumatization of the temporal bones and otitis media in ancient and modern Greenlanders. Ph.d.-thesis. Meddelelser om Grønland, Man & Society 1997; 22: 1-42.
    editorial comment by James Baxter, M.D., Professor emeritus, Department of Otolaryngology, McGill University, Montreal, Canada i Journal of Circumpolar Health 1998; 57: 69-70.
     
  • Homøe P, Prag J, Olsen CB, Farholt S. Nasopharyngeal bacteria found on blood agar plates from healthy children in Greenland. International Journal of Circumpolar Health 1998; 57: 32-39.
     
  • Lynnerup N, Homøe P, Skovgaard LT. The frontal sinus in ancient and modern Greenlandic Inuit. International Journal of Anthropology 1999; 14: 47-54.
     
  • Homøe P, Christensen RB, Bretlau P. Acute otitis media and age at onset among children in Greenland. Acta Otolaryngologica (Stockh) 1999; 119: 65-71.
     
  • Homøe P, Christensen RB, Bretlau P. Acute otitis media and sociomedical risk factors among unselected children in Greenland. International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology 1999; 49: 37-52.
     
  • Homøe P, Madsen HO, Sandvej K, Koch A, Garred P. Lack of association between mannose-binding lectin, acute otitis media, and early Estein-Barr virus infection among children in Greenland. Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases 1999; 31: 363-66.
     
  • Lynnerup N, Homøe P. Low frequency of sinus frontalis in Greenlanders. Nordisk Retsmedicin 1999; 5: 77-112.
     
  • Koch A, Melbye M, Sørensen P, Homøe P, Madsen HO, Mølbak K, Hansen CH, Andersen LH, Hahn GW, Garred P. Acute respiratory tract infections and mannose-binding lectin insufficiency during early childhood. Journal of the American Medical Association.
     
  • Homøe P. Otitis media in Greenland; Studies on Historical, Epidemiological, Microbiological, and Immunological Aspects. (doctoral thesis). International Journal of Circumpolar Health 2001; 60 (S2): 1-54.
     
  • Koch A, Sørensen P, Homøe P, Mølbak K, Pedersen FK, Mortensen T., Elberling H, Eriksen AM, , Olsen OR, Melbye M. Population-based study of acute respiratory infections in children, Greenland. Emerging Infectious Diseases 2002; 8: 586-93.
     
  • Koch A, Melbye M, Sørensen P, Homøe P, Madsen HO, Mølbak K, Hansen CH, Andersen LH, Hahn GW, Garred P. Acute respiratory tract infections and lack of mannosebinding lectin in small children. Ugeskrift for Læger (Danish Medical Journal) 2002; 164: 5635-40.
     
  • Koch A, Mølbak K, Homøe P, Sørensen P, Tamsmark TH, Olesen M, Pejl J, Pedersen FK, Olsen OR, Melbye M. Risk factors for acute respiratory tract infections in young Greenlandic children. American Journal of Epidemiology 2003; 158: 374-84.
     
  • Homøe P, Christensen RB, Bretlau P. Acute otitis media and seasonality. International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology 2005. In press.
     
  • Velser T, Homøe P. Endoscopic treatment of Zenker’s diverticulum with laser evaporation: evaluation of patient satisfaction. Ugeskr for Læger (Danish Medical Journal) 2005. In press.

e-mail: preben.homoee@rh.hosp.dk
     
 
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