LightCOM is governed by a Project Management Group (PMG) and a Management Team, supported by a Project Steering Committee (PSC) and an Advisory Board (AB).
The Management Team is responsible for the day-to-day management of the project. The team consists of Chief Investigator Carsten Dirksen and Project Manager Camilla Verdich, who is responsible for the administrative aspects of LIghtCOM. The team is situated at the Department of Medicine, Copenhagen University Hospital - Amager and Hvidovre.
The Project Management Group (PMG)
The PMG consists of the leaders of the eight Work Packages in LightCOM. The PMG has overall operational responsibility for the conduct of the LightCOM project. Chief Investigator Carsten Dirksen leads the PMG.
Members of the LightCOM Project Management Group:
Chief investigator, associate professor Carsten Dirksen (Chair of PMG and WP leader for WP1 and WP8), AHH.
MD PhD Kirstine Nyvold Bojsen-Møller (leader of the Danish part of WP4), AHH.
Professor Frans Boch Waldorff (WP leader for WP2 and WP5), IFSV/FESP.
Professor Berit Heitmann (scientific work package leader of WP3), IFSV/FEAP.
Assistant professor Gritt Overbeck (WP leader for WP6), IFES/FEAP.
Professor Susan Jebb (WP leader for WP4 and UK part of WP2 and WP7), Oxford University.
Associate Professor Charlotte Albury (WP leader for the UK part of WP6), Oxford University.
Professor Kim Rose Olsen (WP leader for WP7), DaCHE SDU.
MD PhD Elizabeth Morris, Oxford University
The Project Steering Committee (PSC)
The PSC provides overall strategic supervision of the LightCOM project and its progress, and advises the Project Management Group in strategic decisions related to the organisation and conduct of the project.
Members of the LightCOM Project Steering Committee:
AHH: Jakob Hendel, Deputy Director at Amager Hvidovre Hospital, The Capital Region of Denmark (Chair).
IFSV-KU/FEAP: Theis Lange, Professor, Dept. of Public Health Head of Department.
DaCHE: Trine Kjær, Professor, Department of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark.
PHC-OX: Richard Hobbs, Nuffield Professor of Primary Care Health Sciences, Head of Department. University of Oxford
The Danish Lighthouse Life Science: Diana Arsovic Nielsen, CEO, Danish Life Science Cluster.
Novo Nordisk Foundation: Alexandra Søgaard Helbo, Senior Scientific Manager,Biomedical Research.
The Advisory Board
The Advisory Board
provides advice to the Project Management Group on scientific, organisational,
and outreach aspects.
Members of the LightCOM Advisory Board:
Sarah
Le Brocq, Obesity Advocate, Public Speaker
& Patient Leader. Lived experience representative from the UK.
Carina Jørgensen, Lived experience representative
from DK.
Judith Aron-Wisnewsky,
Professor (MD, PhD) of nutrition at Sorbonne Université and Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital (Paris)
John
Wilding, Professor, Leads Clinical
Research into Obesity, Diabetes and Endocrinology at the University of
Liverpool.
Jens Søndergaard,
Professor, Head of the joined research unit
for General Practice at the University of Southern Denmark.