Erik T. Parner
Position:
Erik Thorlund Parner is Professor in Biostatistics at Aarhus University. Among others, Dr. Parner is experienced within advanced time-to-event statistics including multi-state transitions and competing risks.
RUNSAFE affiliation:
Dr. Parner is the leader of the RUNSAFE Work Package 5: Development of Causal models at statistical methods. In addition, he actively supports the RUNSAFE group in matters of relevant statistical models, and participates in the RUNSAFE journal-club in discussions of statistics.
Background:
MSc from Aarhus University
PhD from Aarhus University with the title: "Inference in Semiparametric Frailty Models".
Recent publications
Parner, E. T. (2026). Estimating treatment effects on duration with disease: a principal stratification framework. Lifetime Data Analysis, 32(1), Article 15. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10985-025-09681-y
Bønløkke, S., Stougaard, M., Sorensen, B. S., Parner, E., Nyvang, G.-B., Lindegaard, J. C., Blaakær, J., Bertelsen, J., Fuglsang, K. & Steiniche, T. (2026). Ultrasensitive next-generation sequencing-based detection of circulating human papillomavirus DNA for cervical cancer recurrence monitoring. Cancer, 132(4), Article e70282. https://doi.org/10.1002/cncr.70282
Ostenfeld, E. B., Bjørnholt, S. M., Sponholtz, S. E., Frøding, L. P., Fuglsang, K., Markauskas, A., Parner, E. & Jensen, P. T. (2025). Long-term lymphedema and quality of life following lymph node staging in early cervical cancer: 3-year follow-up in the prospective multicenter SENTIREC CERVIX study. American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajog.2025.09.020
Kristensen, S. B. & Parner, E. T. (2025). Revisiting the apparent discrepancy between the frequentist and Bayesian interpretation of an adaptive design. arxiv.org.
Madsen, K. T., Nørgaard, B. L., Øvrehus, K. A., Jensen, J. M., Scheuer, S. T., Parner, E., Grove, E. L., Iraqi, N., Fairbairn, T., Nieman, K., Patel, M. R., Rogers, C., Mullen, S., Mickley, H., Rohold, A., Bøtker, H. E., Leipsic, J. A. & Sand, N. P. R. (2025). Long-term prognostic impact of complete revascularisation defined by CT-derived fractional flow reserve. Heart. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1136/heartjnl-2025-326563