Fredrik Folke
PhD, Senior Consultant
Herlev & Gentofte University Hospital, Clinical Professor and Research Leader at the Copenhagen Emergency Medical Services, Capital Region of Denmark
Biografi
Fredrik Folke is Head of Research at the Capital Region Emergency Medical Services and a professor at the University of Copenhagen. His research focuses on out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, prehospital emergency medicine, emergency medical dispatch, and cardiovascular epidemiology.
A central theme in his work is improving survival and outcomes for patients experiencing medical emergencies before reaching hospital care. He studies citizen responder programmes, resuscitation science, and the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning in emergency call handling, ECG interpretation, and clinical decision support. His research spans epidemiology, intervention studies, in-silico trials, and clinical trials.
Folke is committed to translational research, aiming to implement scientific discoveries into everyday clinical practice. Through health data science and innovative technologies, his work seeks to improve patient outcomes and strengthen prehospital healthcare delivery.
