Povl Riis (1925-2017) was a Danish gastroenterologist.

Biography

Riis was born on 28 December 1925. In 1956 he used, for the first time, amniocentesis to make an antenatal diagnosis of genetic disease.Saxon, Wolfgang (4 March 1995)
Dr. Fritz Fuchs, 76, Who Advanced Obstetrics
'' The New York Times'' ("Dr. Fuchs and a Danish colleague, Povl Riis, reported in 1960 that they had successfully performed amniocentesis to diagnose male fetuses at risk for hemophilia and muscular dystrophy.") Riis also served as chair of National Research Ethics Committee of Denmark, from its creation in 1979, until 1998. He wrote the second version of the Helsinki Declaration of Human Research in 1975 with Prof. Bloomquist (Sweden) and Prof. Engers (Norway). He is also a founding member of Vancouver Group of Medical Editors. Riis received his M.D. from the University of Copenhagen in 1952 and DM Sci in 1959. He served there as a professor of medicine from 1974-96. He was physician-in-chief of the medical department of the

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, Copenhagen from 1963 to 1976,Reynolds L A, Tansey E M. (eds) (2007
''Medical ethics education in Britain, 1963–93''
Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine, vol. 31. p. 187 London: The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL. and physician-in-chief for gastroenterology at the Herlev University Hospital, Copenhagen, from 1976 to 1996. He was also vice president of the European Science Foundation from 1974–77 and the Chairman of the Danish Medical Research Council from 1972-77.Facing the Future Together - 2005 Conference - CVs
European Commission, Retrieved 29 August 2011 He was editor-in-chief of the ''

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'' from 1957 to 1991. He served on the ''

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''s editorial board from 1994; and as chair of the

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from 1970 to 1972; of the Danish

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from 1979–98; and of the Age Forum from 1996. He died on 2 January 2017.

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Povl Riis
in Den Store Danske * {{DEFAULTSORT:Riis, Povl 1925 births 2017 deaths Danish gastroenterologists Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians