About me
I am a statistician with a doctoral degree in epidemiology from Karolinska Institutet. Since 2023 I am Docent in Epidemiology. As part of Johan Askling's research group on chronic inflammatory disease epidemiology, my research focuses on safety and effectiveness of treatments for chronic inflammatory diseases, including rheumatoid arthritis(RA), psoriatic arthritis(PsA) and spondyloarthritis(SpA). Morevoer, I have a deep interest in the role of environmental risk factor, and in particular diet, on risk and prognosis of rheumatoid arthritis.
Research description
I am involved in several national and international collaborations with the aim of investigate different aspect of rheumatic disease and its treatment:
- ARTIS (Anti-Rheumatic Treatment in Sweden): a national surveillance program for investigation of safety and effectiveness of new anti-rheumatic drugs
- Nordforsk collaboration: using data from the 5 Nordic rheumatology quality register linked to the national register on health, we can analyze safety and effectiveness of treatments in RA, PsA and SpA
- EuroSpA collaboration: data from 17 national rheumatogy register are collected to analyze several aspect of treatment for PsA and SpA. I am part of the EuroSpA scientific committee
- EIRA: using data from the largest case-control study on RA, I have analyzed the effect of diet on risk and prognosis of RA
Teaching portfolio
Systematic Reviews and Meta-analyses (PhD Course nr. 2790), organizer and lecturer
Advanced course in SAS programming for Health Care Data, teaching assistant
Education
2014, PhD in Medical Science, Karolinska Institutet
2008, MSc in Statistics, University of Milano–Bicocca, Italy
2006, BSc in Statistics, University of Milano–Bicocca, Italy