Karl-erik Andersson MD, PhD

Professor Andersson is currently visiting professor of Vascular and Urogenital Pharmacology, University of Aarhus, Denmark. He received his medical degree from the University of Lund in 1968, and completed his Ph.D. at the Department of Pharmacology, Lund University, in 1973. In 1975 he obtained a Swedish specialist degree in Internal Medicine and was appointed as Professor of Clinical Pharmacology at the University of Odense, Denmark. From 1976 to 1978 he had the same position at the University of Aarhus, Denmark.

From 1978-2006 he was Professor and Chairman of the Department of Clinical Pharmacology, University of Lund, Lund, Sweden, and from 2006 he is professor at Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Dr Andersson has a longstanding interest in bladder physiology and pathophysiology and in the pharmacological management of bladder dysfunctions, including OAB and its role in nocturia. He is also specifically interested in the spectrum of systemic diseases that can be associated with nocturia.