CURRICULUM VITAE ANJA MARIE BORNØ JENSEN

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1 CURRICULUM VITAE ANJA MARIE BORNØ JENSEN Personal Information: Address: Languages: Research areas/keywords: Anja Marie Bornø Jensen, born 1977, Odense, Denmark Married to Thomas Bornø. Children: Sarah Sofie Bornø (Nov 23rd 2011) Dybbølsgade 20, 1.th 1721 Copenhagen V, Denmark Danish, English, German (intermediate) Medical anthropology, organ donation and transplantation, death, hospital practices, rituals, narratives, phenomenology, gift exchange, kinship, qualitative methods, research ethics, Denmark, USA. Academic Positions: Assistant Professor, Centre for Medical Science and Technology Studies, Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen (still on the Body and Person project) Post Doc, Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen. Working on heart lung and cornea transplantation in the project Body and Person: Governing Exchange in 21st Century Biomedicine Managed by Associate Professor Klaus Høyer. (Maternity Leave from October 4th 2011 to August 29th 2012) PhD Student at the Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen 2007 Academic project worker at the Danish Cancer Society, qualitative research on bread and wholegrain 2006 Assistant teacher at the Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen Education: 2013 Visiting Research Scholar at the Department of Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University (Fall Semester) PhD Scholar at the Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen. Project on Organ Donation and Donor Families in Denmark. (supervisors Professor Tine Tjørnhøj Thomsen and Professor Lesley Sharp) 2008 Visiting Research Scholar at the Department of Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University 2007 Master Degree in Social Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen Teaching Experiences: 2013 Planning and teaching Master of Public Health course Qualitative Methods and Analysis Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen (IFSV) 2013 Supervising two MA students and two Master of Public Health students (IFSV) 2012 Planning and teaching MA course Qualitative Analysis and History of Science Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen (IFSV) 2009 Planning and teaching MA and BA course in Medical Anthropology Living and Dying with New Medical Technologies Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen (IA) 1

2 Supervising and examining three MA-students and two BA-students (IA) 2008 Censor on eight 7th semester course essays (IA) 2006 Supervising groups of BA students on fieldwork in Qualitative Methods Course (IA) Field Research: Participant observation at the Danish Cornea Bank and at a Hospital Unit for heart and lung transplantation. Interviews with recipients, doctors, nurses and tissue technicians 2011 Interview study among intensive care staff on cardiac arrest in brain-dead patients months participant observation at Danish Neuro Intensive Care Units observing acute donation cases and organ procurements, interviewing donor families, doctors and nurses,attending transplantation conferences, staff training and seminars Fieldwork on conceptions of bread among Danish consumers Follow-up fieldwork at the Transplant Games in Kentucky USA, hosted by the National Kidney Foundation USA 2005 Four months fieldwork and research internship at Donor Family Services in the New York Organ Donor Network in New York City Review Experience: Public Understanding of Science, Tidsskrift for Sygdom og Samfund (Danish Journal for Disease and Society), Anthropology and Medicine, Medical Anthropology Quarterly Health an Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Health, Illness and Medicine Social Science and Medicine Bioethics Invited Lectures: 2013 Annual Organ Donation Education Day for Doctors and Nurses, Oslo, Norway 2013 Steering Committee Meeting NOROD, Oslo (course in communicating with relatives) 2012 Ethics Symposium, Danish Centre for Organ Donation 2012 Annual Meeting at the Association of Nordic Transplant Coordinators, Copenhagen 2012 Advanced course for Kidney Nurses, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen 2011 Annual Regional Meeting for Transplant Doctors and Nurses in Malmø, Sweden 2011 Annual Organ Donation Education Day for Doctors and Nurses, Oslo, Norway 2010 Annual Meeting at the Scandinavian Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care 2010 Annual Meeting at the Scandinavian Neurosurgical Society 2010 Annual Meeting in the Nordic Novartis Forum for Transplant Nurses 2010 Course on organ donation at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Århus Six Education Days on Organ Donation for Danish Doctors and Nurses hosted by Danish Centre for Organ Donation 2009 Annual Meeting at the Association of Nordic Transplant Coordinators 2

3 2008 Department of Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University 2008 Organ Donation Public Information Day at University Hospital of Southern Denmark 2007 Metropolitan Medical Anthropology Association, Grad Centre, City University of New York Other Academic Work: Evaluating PhD proposals for University of Southern Denmark 2012 Lecturer and member of Debate Panel at public organ donation debate arrangement in Politikens Hus Academic consultant on Danish movie on Organ Donation by Anja Dalhoff 2011 Participating expert on Donor Family Conversations at Educational Movie for Danish Hospital Staff at the Danish Centre for Organ Donation website 2010 Member of working group on organ donor families at the Danish Centre for Organ Donation 2009 Contributing to Annual Report from the Danish Ethical Council 2009 Co-organizer of the MEGA Seminar 2009 hosted by the Danish Research School of Anthropology and Ethnography Academic Conferences (with paper) 2013 Orchestrating an Exceptional Death Organ donation in Denmark ELPAT Rotterdam (EU conference - Ethical, Legal and Psychosocial Aspects of Transplantation) 2012 Hoping Beyond Death Society for Social Studies of Science, København 2010 Governing the Death of the Organ Donor Governing the Dead at Danish Institute for International Studies Orchestrating Death Annual Meeting in American Anthropologist Association, New Orleans. Chairing the Panel: Circulating Organs and Ethical Conundrums 2009 Transformations in Death; The Liminality of Organ Donation. MEGA Seminar The Danish Research School of Anthropology and Ethnography. Charing the panel: Liminal Premises 2008 The Presence of the Dead Konferencen The Presence of Absence. Materiality and Beyond Department of Cross Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen Other Activities and Memberships Member of the Board of the Danish Research School of Anthropology and Ethnography Vice-chairman of The Millennium Anthropologists- association of young Danish anthropologists Media contributions: Urban, Weekendavisen, Kristeligt Dagblad, DR P1 Morgen (national radio) DR Apropos (national radio), the Evening News DR, Deadline DR2 and Academy for the Danes at DR2 (both national TV channels) 3

4 Awards and Scholarships 2013 Senior research stipend from the Danish Heart Foundation Research Grants from the Sasakawa International Fellowship Foundation, The Royal Danish Society of Sciences and various foundations: Oticon, Augustinus, Knud Højgaard, Hede Nielsen Family, Frimodt Heineke, Müller Geiel Family, Tom Nis Faxøe, Willam and Hugo Evers, Rudolph Als,Adalbert Gade, Etly and Jørgen Stjerngren 2008 Fieldwork grant from the Danish Heart Foundation 2008 PhD Grant from Danish Research Council for Independent Research Humanities ( $) Awarded two research stays in Bikuben Academic Guest House, New York PUBLICATIONS (* means translated from Danish) Books (reports, dissertation, book chapters) 2012 *Gjerris M, Andersen HH, Agerlin N, Severinsen I, Høyer KL, Jensen AMB. Between Death and Death. Report on treating Cardiac Arrest in Potential Organ Donors. Danish Centre for Organ Donation Jensen AMB. Orchestrating an Exceptional Death: Donor Family Experiences and Organ Donation in Denmark. Ph.d. Afhandling: Institut for Antropologi, (Ph.D. Series; Nr. 69) Jensen AMB. A Sense of Absence: The Staging of Heroic Deaths and Ongoing Lives among American Organ Donor Families. I Hastrup F, Bille M, Flohr Sørensen T, red., An Anthropology of Absence: Materialisations of Transcendence and Loss. London: Springer Publishing Company s *Jensen AMB Exciting Tragedies: Dilemmas and Vulnerability in the Exploration of Organ Donation in the US. In Hastrup, K (ed) Among People. A textbook of Anthropological Research Ethics Reitzel Copenhagen, pp *Jensen AMB The Right to be Asked. The American perspective on organ donation and donor families. In A. Nørregaard, M.B. Mortensen (ed) Organ donation an individual choice University Hospital of Southern Denmark, pp *Jacobsen Gry S, Jensen AMB Full of Grains An Anthropological study of everyday experiences with bread and wholegrain at home and at work with skilled and unskilled Danish workers Report from The Danish Cancer Society Jensen AMB. "Those who give and grieve" - an anthropological study of American donor families. Københavns Universitet, s. (Specialerække, Vol. 430). 4

5 Articles (peer reviewed) 2013 Høyer KL, Jensen AMB. Transgressive ethics: Professional work ethics as a perspective on 'aggressive organ harvesting'. Social Studies of Science 43: Jensen AMB. Searching for Meaningful Aftermaths: Donor Family Experiences and Expressions in New York and Denmark. Sites: a journal of social anthropology and cultural studies sep 1;8(1): Høyer KL, Jensen AMB. Organ Donation and the Ethics of Muddling Through. Critical Care (Online Edition). 2011;15(1): *Høyer KL, Jensen AMB, Mohr S: Travelling Dangerous Ethical Wetlands. Nordiske Udkast. 2011;1 & 2: *Jensen AMB Lost lives and new chances: The multiple social significance of body parts in the world of Organ Donation. The Journal for Society and Medicine, Denmark no. 11, pp *Jensen AMB When Dead Children are the gift of life unisex motherhood and organ donation in the US The Journal of Women, Gender and Research, Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen no. 1-2, pp Debates, Chronicles, Other Articles: 2012 *Jensen AMB A Different Goodbye Chronicle in the Danish Journal Weekendavisen about the experiences of Danish Donor Families *Jensen AMB Documentary with Ulterior Motives Debate in the Danish Journal Berlingske as comment on Danish TV documentary on Organ donation *Jensen AMB The Right to be asked, heard and acknowledged, American approaches to Donor Families Kidney Foundation Fyn Magazine no *Jensen AMB Focus on Donor Families Two discussion papers in Ugeskrift for Læger (Doctors Weekly Journal) The leading Medical Journal in Denmark. 5