Gudrun Margrethe Boysen (b. 5 April 1939 in Lille Utterslev,

Denmark ) , song = ( en, "King Christian stood by the lofty mast") , song_type = National and royal anthem , image_map = EU-Denmark.svg , map_caption = , subdivision_type = Sovereign state , subdivision_name = Danish Realm, Kingdom of Denmark ...

) is a Danish

physician A physician (American English), medical practitioner (Commonwealth English), medical doctor, or simply doctor, is a health professional who practices medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring health through th ...

(MD and DM.Sc.) and conducts research into the causes and effects of

stroke A stroke is a medical condition in which poor blood flow to the brain causes cell death. There are two main types of stroke: ischemic, due to lack of blood flow, and hemorrhagic, due to bleeding. Both cause parts of the brain to stop functionin ...

s. She conducts her research at the Department of

Neurology Neurology (from el, wikt:νεῦρον, νεῦρον (neûron), "string, nerve" and the suffix wikt:-logia, -logia, "study of") is the branch of specialty (medicine), medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of all categories of co ...

Bispebjerg Hospital Bispebjerg Hospital is one of the hospitals in the Capital Region of Denmark. Along with a number of other hospitals and the University of Copenhagen (the Faculty of Health Sciences), Bispebjerg Hospital forms part of the Copenhagen University Hos ...

Copenhagen Copenhagen ( or .; da, København ) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a proper population of around 815.000 in the last quarter of 2022; and some 1.370,000 in the urban area; and the wider Copenhagen metropolitan ar ...

. In 1994, Boysen won a

Tagea Brandt Rejselegat The Tagea Brandts ''Rejselegat'' (Travel Scholarship) is a Danish award to women who have made a significant contribution in science, literature or art. The grant, which is given without application, was created and endowed by Danish industrialist ...

. She is married to Troels Johan Dahler Kardel and has two children, Maria (1972) and Sakina (1974).

Selected publications

* ''Cerebral Hemodynamics in Carotid Surgery'' (Munksgaard, 1973) * ''On the Critical Lower Level of Cerebral Blood Flow in Man with particular reference to Carotid surgery'' (Circulation, 49, 1023) * ''Early Stroke: A Dynamic Process'' (Stroke, 32, 2423) * ''Homocysteine and Risk of Recurrent Stroke'' (Stroke, 34, 1258) * ''Persisting Dilemma: To Treat or Not to Treat Blood Pressure in Acute Ischemic Stroke'' (Stroke, 35, 526)

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