Obtained the M.D. degree in 1983 from Aarhus University. He became a specialist in Internal Medicine in 1995 and then a specialist in Gastroenterology in 1997. Asbjørn Mohr Drewes currently is professor at Aarhus University and Aalborg University. His Ph.D. thesis from Aalborg University in 1998 was entitled “Experimental pain in the human gastrointestinal tract. Sensory manifestations to noxious electrical stimuli”. His Doctor of Medical Science (DMSc) degree was awarded from Aarhus University in 1999 and entitled “Pain and sleep disturbances. Clinical, experimental and methodological aspects with special reference to the fibromyalgia syndrome and rheumatoid arthritis”. Asbjørn Mohr Drewes now serves as professor and chief physician at the Department of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Aalborg Hospital. His research the past 10 years has centered on pain and physiology in the upper gastrointestinal tract, the gut-brain axis, pharmacology and pathogenesis of diseases relating to the oesophagus and pancreas. He is heading the clinical research team.
Current research interests: Gastrointestinal pain in health and disease; Physiology of the gut; Experimental methods to evoke pain; The gut-brain axis; Clinical pain studies; Preclinical testing of analgesics; Development of new methods to assess the physiological function of the gut; Clinical gastroenterological studies.
