Knut E A Lundin is Professor of Medicine and Head of Clinical Education, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Norway and senior consultant gastroenterologist at the endoscopy unit at Oslo University Hospital, Rikshospitalet. He works with Professor Ludvig M Sollid on the immunobiology and clinical aspects of coeliac disease (CeD). His seminal paper in Journal of Experimental Medicine in 1993 on gluten specific T cells from the small intestine has led to in-detail dissection of the immunopathogenesis of the disease. Focus has also been paid to non-coeliac gluten sensitivity, “regular” and “complicated” CeD, refractory CeD, inflammatory bowel disease, clinical nutrition and other GI disorders in a tertiary referral hospital setting. He has training in all aspects of diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopy. 

He initiated the International Society for the Study of Celiac Disease in 2011 and the European Society for Study of Coeliac Disease in 2015. He was senior author of the recent guidelines from the European Society for Study of Coeliac Disease published in UEG Journal in 2019 and downloaded more than 100.000 times. He has published more than 200 papers as original papers, reviews and book chapters and has been cited in > 26.000 other publications, his h-index is 77 and the i10-index 206.