Primary Investigators
Morten Olgaard Jensen, PhD, DrMed, FAHA
Dr. Jensen is an Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, a Fellow of the American Heart Association, and an Arkansas Research Alliance Scholar.
Dr. Morten Jensen focuses his research on medical devices and experimental cardiovascular surgery to create useful solutions with sophisticated technologies. The results obtained from this work are currently used in the FDA guidelines for heart repair devices. He is appointed to the Danish Academy of Engineering and has won several prizes for his work; he was the youngest person since 1965 to receive the Danish Society of Engineers Honorary Award of Excellence. This was awarded for “innovative research, encouraging students to utilize engineering skills in the cross-disciplinary field of Life Sciences, and demonstrating high academic standards through technology and scientific results”.
Dr. Jensen has held the position as Director of Research for The Scandinavian School of Cardiovascular Technology. Prior to joining UA Fayetteville, he spent six years in industry with National Instruments (Austin, TX) and ten years at the Department of Biomedical Engineering and Cardiothoracic & Vascular Surgery at the University Hospital of Aarhus, Denmark as an assistant and associate professor. He has since worked as research faculty at the University College London (UK) and Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, GA).
Dr. Jensen received his PhD from the University of Aarhus in 2008 and has published extensively on his work in scientific journals such as Nature Cardiology and Circulation. He has authored and co-authored more than 83 peer reviewed publications (hereof 61 journal papers and 22 refereed conference proceedings), 20 Magazine articles, 11 Books / book chapters, 7 Conference keynote addresses, 89 Conference oral presentations, 63 Conference poster presentations, and 31 Seminars. See full CV below for details. He is serving on biomedical engineering committees as well as several federal funding study sections. This includes the NIH RO1 Bioengineering, Technology and Surgical Sciences Study Section, the NSF SBIR and STTR Medical Devices program, the National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship committee, the NIH Fellowship F30/31/32 study section, the DoD National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowships Review Committee and the NIH AREA / R15 Study Section panel member. Dr. Jensen has initiated several projects currently in the commercialization process. In 2015, he was the third engineer in Denmark since 1479 to obtain the Doctor Medicinae degree, demonstrating significant clinical impact of the conducted research.