Biography

Bettina Hansen is an internationally recognized biostatistician who leads large-scale clinical research projects related to chronic hepatitis, auto-immune liver diseases and rare liver diseases in children. Her work initiating international multi-center studies, and novel application of sophisticated statistical tools have transformed the understanding, clinical management, and treatment of liver conditions around the world.

The goals of her research program are to identify patients with complex diseases whose conditions will either devolve or improve with treatment, and to create pathways to drug discovery for rare, slowly progressing conditions which would otherwise be impossible to study.

Bettina Hansen holds a duo position at the dept of Epidemiology, Erasmus MC in Rotterdam, the Netherlands and at IHPME, University of Toronto, Canada. She has published over 400 peer-reviewed papers. More than 50 international PhDs have graduated under her supervision. She initiated the global real-world data collaborations: Global PBC Study Group, CaNAL, NAPPED and GALA and is leading the prospective PSC WIND project from PSC partners.