Povl Riis

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Prof. Povl Riis is gastroenterologist. He was Professor in Copenhagen University/Denmark.

In 1956 he used, for the first time, amniocentesis to make an antenatal diagnose of sexual related genetic disease.

He is a former president of National Research Ethics Committee of Denmark, created in 1979.

He wrote the second version of the Helsinki Declaration of Human Research in 1975 with Prof. Bloomquist (Sweden) and Prof. Engers (Norway}.

He is a founder member of Vancouver Group of Medical Editors.