Nikolaj Kjær Høier who is a Research Assistant in DRISP and medical students won the 2nd prize in the competition for the Danish Region’s Award for Medical Students in Clinical Psychiatry at the annual meeting of the Danish Psychiatric Society on 15 March for the study “Association between treatment with hypnotics and suicide and attempted suicide: a nationwide cohort study”.
Prof. Martin Balslev Jørgensen presented the award and stated, on behalf of the award committee, that: “The award acknowledges that this is an important registry study on a topic, which often does not receive sufficient recognition. In addition, the committee remarked that the study contributes with exciting results based on thorough statistical analyses while accounting for relevant confounders. The committee also agreed that the discussion was good.“ The 2nd prize is accompanied by DKK 15,000.
DRISP is, furthermore, happy to share that Nikolaj Høier also won the prize for the best lightning round presentation at the International Association for Suicide Prevention’s Asia Pacific Conference in Bangkok, Thailand for his poster presentation of the study “The associations between suicide and hypnotics: a nationwide cohort study.”
CONGRATULATIONS, Nikolaj!
