Senior Consultant in Liver, Digestive and Colorectal Diseases at Aarhus University Hospital

Senior physician with responsibility for patients with vascular liver diseases at the Department of Hepatology, Gastroenterology and Gastrointestinal Diseases, Aarhus University Hospital

At the Department of Hepatology, Gastroenterology and Gastrointestinal Diseases, Aarhus University Hospital there is a vacancy for a chief physician to be filled from 1 December 2026.

As a hepatology chief physician you will have responsibility for patients with complicated portal hypertension, other vascular liver diseases as well as liver failure. You will also be responsible for hepatology-gastroenterology patients in intensive care in close cooperation with intensivists.

The Department of Hepatology, Gastroenterology and Gastrointestinal Diseases (LMT) is an internal medicine department with highly specialized functions and regional functions within Internal Medicine: Hepatology and Gastroenterology. Patients with advanced liver disease, primary liver cancer, liver transplant recipients, neuroendocrine tumors, intestinal failure and complicated inflammatory bowel disease make up the majority of patients.

There is also a large outpatient activity in the LMT Clinic with 19,000 annual visits and more than 20,000 virtual contacts. 'Research-based effort against disease' is one of the main cornerstones of patient care.

Job description

You will become the department’s expert in vascular complications of liver disease, including portal hypertension and thromboses in mesenterial vessels. You will be responsible for liver-vein catheterisation and transjugular liver biopsy. You will be part of the liver transplantation team, which handles evaluation of patients for and treatment after liver transplantation.

Experience from transplantation centers in Denmark and abroad would be an advantage, just as familiarity with transjugular liver biopsy and liver-vein catheterisation is considered a prerequisite.

Primary liver cancer and neuroendocrine tumors are among the department’s highly specialized treatments, which means you will collaborate across specialties and participate in MDT conferences.

You will lead the ongoing rational development of patient pathways such as a “cirrhosis clinic” with a view to transitions to the primary sector in line with the intention of the “citizen-centered university hospital” as the health reform prescribes.

LMT aims to be an attractive workplace with a high professional level as the basis for a fruitful educational environment, where staff from all professional groups feel valued. You as a person are approachable and engaged.

See also the attached job description.

Qualifications

The position is to be filled by a specialist in Internal Medicine: Gastroenterology and Hepatology. The chief physician must in his/her clinical work participate in the department’s overall clinical activities, including duties in the inpatient ward, dynamic vascular investigations, transplantation outpatient clinic, as well as on-call duties. As a research-active university department it is expected that the applicant has research experience. The department contributes to the shared on-call structure in the Acute Adult Ward. The position includes on-call duties.

Denmark’s complete hospital

AUH is an internationally recognized and highly specialized university hospital, which at the same time is the emergency hospital for 362,000 residents in Aarhus. We are located in one hospital city with 12,000 employees who collaborate in strong communities across professions and departments. We are the country’s complete hospital with both broad and the highest professional standards, where we meet the whole person and achieve results through collaboration.

We conduct research in close collaboration with Aarhus University and with regional, national, and international partners. AUH is the only Danish hospital that is a member of the European Hospital Alliance (EUHA), and the hospital is also a member of 19 European networks for rare diseases (ERN).

In these years we are particularly focused on developing the hospital for tomorrow’s reality, where AUH must contribute to coherence in the health system by taking responsibility for a larger number of patients while we have fewer employees to carry out the tasks.

LMT has around 150 employees distributed across different professional groups, including 18 chief physicians. The ward is characterized by a high flow of both highly specialized patients with liver disease, inflammatory bowel disease, intestinal failure, neuroendocrine tumors, hepatocellular carcinoma and liver transplant recipients.

Read more about us here: AUH for professionals.

Application, terms of employment and starting date

If you have questions about the position, you can contact Chief Physician Jens Kelsen on mobile +45 3056 2682, or by email [email protected].

Salary and employment conditions according to the applicable collective agreement. The appointment is conditional on a satisfactory child safety certificate and a satisfactory authorization.

Before appointment to a specialist physician position, a written medical-competence assessment of the applicants within the seven physician roles is carried out. Competences are documented in the form, which is part of the electronic application portal.

Starting date is 1 December 2026 or by agreement. The application deadline is 20 October 2026. Interviews will be held on 22 October 2026.

The position is, as a rule, a full-time position.

As Region Midtjylland continuously implements savings and reorganizations, employees in redeployment who apply for the position will have priority.

Region Midtjylland is obligated under the EU’s salary transparency directive, which took effect 7 June 2026, to inform you of the starting salary or a salary interval for a position before offering employment.

Here you will find Region Midtjylland’s salary catalog for most professional groups and positions found in Region Midtjylland: Transparency before employment - Medarbejder.rm.dk

Department: Hepatology, Gastroenterology and Gastrointestinal Diseases

Application deadline: 20 October 2026

Location: Palle Juul-Jensens Boulevard 99, 8200 Aarhus N