Ester Garne

Ester Garne serves as a Clinical Associate Professor at the Department of Regional Health Research within the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Southern Denmark. She is affiliated with IRS - Lillebælt Hospital's Research Unit of Paediatrics in Kolding, where she conducts extensive research on congenital malformations and perinatal epidemiology across European populations.

Her research focuses on congenital malformations, with particular expertise in prenatal diagnosis, gene linkage, and cohort analysis of birth defects. Key areas include congenital heart defects, first-trimester pregnancy exposures, and the prevalence of anomalies following maternal medication use. Her fingerprint reveals strong concentration in congenital malformation research (100%), with significant work in cohort effects (18%) and prenatal diagnosis (13%).

Garne's publication trends show consistent European multicenter collaboration on congenital anomaly surveillance, with recent work analyzing drug exposures during pregnancy, outcomes of rare genetic syndromes, and kidney anomalies in children. Her research bridges clinical medicine with population-level epidemiology, utilizing large healthcare databases across European countries.

With 58 recorded professional activities, she actively participates in external supervision, committee memberships (13), and peer review for major journals including BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology, and Pediatrics. Her 2015 presentation at the World Perinatal Congress in Madrid on asthma medication exposure demonstrates her long-standing contribution to perinatal research methodology.

Garne leads research within the Research Unit of Paediatrics at Lillebælt Hospital, coordinating European collaborative studies through the Department of Regional Health Research. Her work involves extensive international networking with researchers across multiple European countries, focusing on congenital anomaly surveillance systems and drug safety during pregnancy.