The People Behind 2P2C

Dr Bjørn Ulrik Nielsen is a consultant paediatric anaesthetist at Odense University Hospital and a prehospital physician with the Odense rapid response car service, Denmark.

Medical education has been a central part of his career. He helped develop the regional technical simulation centre, SimC/TechSim, and has contributed to research on simulation-based education and clinical skills assessment.

He is Coordinator of TaskForce ResusSIM, a national initiative working to establish a hyperrealistic prehospital simulation centre in Denmark with an integrated FAM/ATC function.

He is co-founder of the PediPOP initiative (Paediatric Perioperative Optimisation), which aims to improve perioperative care for children with severely reduced physiological reserves.

His primary clinical and educational interests include:

• Paediatric anaesthesia and prehospital critical care
• Resuscitation of critically ill and severely injured patients
• Simulation-based education and multidisciplinary team training

Dr Lars Konge PhD is a certified cardio-thoracic surgeon, consultant and head of research at the Copenhagen Academy for Medical Education and Simulation (CAMES) Rigshospitalet, and a professor of medical education at the University of Copenhagen and at the University of Southern Denmark. He has a Ph.D. in assessment of flexible bronchoscopy and his main research areas are simulation-based training and certification of technical skills. Professor Konge is one of the world’s most active researchers in medical education and has published more than 400 papers in international peer-reviewed journals.

At 2P2C, Professor Konge brings world-leading expertise in evidence-based educational design, simulation-based training, competency assessment and certification. His contribution supports the development of high-quality paediatric technical simulation programmes grounded in robust educational science, with clearly defined and measurable competency outcomes.

Current roles and appointments

· Head of Research, Copenhagen Academy for Medical Education and Simulation (CAMES)

· Professor of Medical Education, University of Copenhagen

· Professor of Medical Education, University of Southern Denmark

· Vice-director of the Guangdong Academy for Medical Simulation (GAMS), China

· President of the Medical Society of Copenhagen

· Board member in the Association of Professors at Rigshospitalet

· Medical Education Advisor for the European Respiratory Society

Dr Troels Martin Hansen is Medical Director of Danish Air Ambulance, Denmark’s nationwide helicopter emergency medical service, jointly operated by the country’s four regions. He provides medical leadership for a service comprising four 24-hour emergency medical helicopters and delivering advanced care to critically ill and injured patients across Denmark.

A specialist in anaesthesiology, Dr Hansen has more than two decades of experience in physician-led prehospital emergency medicine. His clinical and leadership work spans advanced resuscitation, prehospital anaesthesia, airway management, trauma care and the rapid transfer of time-critical patients to specialist centres.

He has contributed to research and quality improvement in prehospital critical care, including studies of airway management, cardiac arrest, traumatic brain injury and advanced care for critically ill children. His work reflects a sustained focus on clinical governance, consistent national standards and evidence-based patient care.

At 2P2C, Dr Hansen brings national strategic leadership, extensive operational HEMS experience and a system-wide perspective on developing safe, high-quality prehospital care for critically ill and injured children.

His primary clinical interests and areas of expertise include:

• National HEMS leadership and clinical governance
• Prehospital anaesthesia, resuscitation and advanced airway management
• Quality improvement and paediatric prehospital critical care

Dr Nicola Groes Clausen PhD is a consultant paediatric anaesthetist and a leading voice in European paediatric anaesthesia. She serves as President of the European Society for Paediatric Anaesthesiology (ESPA), leads the Paediatric Anaesthesia Section at Odense University Hospital and is a Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Southern Denmark.

Her clinical experience spans anaesthesia and intensive care, neonatal surgery, paediatric critical care and the retrieval of critically ill children. More than a decade of work as a prehospital emergency physician gives her an important perspective across hospital and prehospital care.

Her research focuses on improving the safety and quality of anaesthesia for infants and children, including peri-anaesthetic physiology, the developing brain and quality improvement. She is deeply engaged in education, multidisciplinary research and international collaboration and has contributed to the development of harmonised European training standards in paediatric anaesthesia.

Within 2P2C, Nicola strengthens the connection between expert clinical care, research and education—helping turn shared knowledge into safer care for critically ill and injured children.

Her primary clinical interests and areas of expertise include:

• Paediatric anaesthesia, intensive care and patient safety
• Research, quality improvement and the developing brain
• Education, European collaboration and prehospital care

Dr Ole Pedersen is a highly experienced paediatric intensivist with extensive expertise spanning paediatric intensive care, critical care retrieval and prehospital critical care.

As Lead Consultant and Head of Paediatric Intensive Care at Odense University Hospital, he leads the multidisciplinary care of critically ill and injured infants and children requiring advanced specialist treatment and organ support.

Ole is also a physician with the OUH Paediatric and Neonatal Retrieval Service and has many years of experience in prehospital emergency medicine with the Svendborg Mobile Emergency Care Unit. This combination provides him with a distinctive systems-level perspective on the management of critically ill children across the prehospital, retrieval and hospital environments.

Alongside his clinical and leadership responsibilities, Ole is actively involved in education, simulation-based training and research in paediatric critical care. Within 2P2C, he contributes substantial clinical expertise and a strong commitment to advancing the care of critically ill and injured children through collaboration, education and high-quality clinical practice.

His primary clinical interests and areas of expertise include:

• Paediatric intensive care and advanced organ support
• Prehospital paediatric emergency medicine and paediatric and neonatal critical care retrieval
• Clinical leadership, education and simulation-based team training