Natalia Stathakarou
Project Coordinator
| Phd Student
E-mail: natalia.stathakarou@ki.se
Telephone: +46852485298
Visiting address: Tomtebodavägen 18A, 17177 Stockholm
Postal address: C7 Lärande, Informatik, Management och Etik, C7 Informatik Koch Karlgren, 171 77 Stockholm
About me
- I am a Project Coordinator and PhD student. My research focus is on
education and training of team leaders’ decision making in civilian and
military complex trauma care, funded by the Swedish Armed Forces.
I coordinate several Erasmus+ projects that I have been granted over the last
years. Moreover, I am one of the course leaders in the Health Informatics MSc
program.
I hold a MSc degree in Health Informatics and a BSc in Computer Science.
*Granted Projects:*
*ENTICE: Evaluating Novel Tangible and Intangible Co-creative Experiential
medical education - 2020-2023
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An Erasmus+ co-funded project under the Knowledge Alliances Key Action.
Co-ordinated by VILABS LTD, Cyprus. Partners: Aristotle University of
Thessaloniki, Greece - University of Leeds, UK
- Karolinska Institutet (MINT
team), Sweden - SimLabIT Oy, Finalnd
- Open Knowledge Foundation Greece,
Greece.
*ReHIn: Refugees Health Integration - 2019-2022*
The research project is co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme Strategic
Partnerships and coordinated by MINT - Medical INTeractions at Karolinska
Institutet, Department of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics. ReHIN
aims to create web-based educational resources to raise awareness and enable
integration of refugees into the EU health culture and system.
The project is a collaborative action research project between Karolinska
Institutet (Sweden), University of Nottingham (UK), Aristotle University
Thessaloniki (Greece) and Universitat Politècnica de València (Spain).
*CEPEH: Chatbots in Healthcare Curricula - 2019-2022*
CEPEH is co-Funded by the Erasmus+ Programme Strategic Partnership and is a
collaborative action between University of Nottingham (UK), Karolinska
Institutet (Sweden), Aristotle University Thessaloniki (Greece), Research
Centre-RISE Limited (Cyprus).
*ACoRD: Advancing Co-Creation of RLOs to Digitalize Healthcare Curricula,
2018-2021*
ACoRD is a Capacity Building Erasmus+ Co-funded project, co-ordinated by the
University of Nottingham, UK. Partners: Karolinska Institutet (MINT), Sweden - University of Stavanger, Norway
- University of Malaya, Malaysia
- University
Puttra, Malaysia - Taylors University, Malaysia.
*WAVES: Widening Access to Virtual Educational Scenarios* - *2016-2018*
Knowledge Alliances Key Action co-funded by the Erasmus plus project.
Co-ordinated by St. Georges Hospital Medical School. Partners: Aristotle
University of Thessaloniki - Masaryk University
- Karolinska Institutet
- Bayer
- In.struct.
WAVES has made SBL (Scenario Based Learning) more accessible for a wide range
of professions through embedding SBL into the learning platforms, adding
renewed pedagogic value and ease-of-use to learners through improved
integration and progress monitoring.
Website: http://wavesnetwork.eu
Award for *Outstanding Contribution to Research* at iLRN2023 for the paper
titled "Evaluation for Iteration - Pre-Pilot Design and Results of an Anatomy
Education VR Resource"
MSc in Health Informatics, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden, 2014
BSc in Computer Science and Telecommunications, National University of
Athens, Greece, 2011
Research
- Full articles published:
1) Lim HM, Ng CJ, Wharrad H, Lee YK, Teo CH, Lee P Y, Krishnan
K, Abu Hassan ZF, Chen Yong PV, Yap W H, Sellappans R, Ayub
E, Hassan N, Kassim P S J, Nasharuddin N A, Idris F, Taylor
M, Poussa C, Karlgren K, *Stathakarou N*, Mordt P, Konstantinidis
S (2022) Knowledge transfer of eLearning objects: Lessons learned from
an intercontinental capacity building project. PLOS ONE 17(9):
e0274771. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0274771 [1]
2) *Stathakarou N*, Sonesson L, Lundberg L, Boffard KD, Kononowicz AA,
Karlgren K. Teams managing civilian and military complex trauma: what are
the competencies required in austere environments and the potential of
simulation technology to address them? Health Informatics J
2021 - 27(4):1–15.
3) Zakim, D., Brandberg, H., El Amrani, S., Hultgren, A., *Stathakarou,
N.*, Nifakos, S., ... & Sundberg, C. J. (2021). Computerized
history-taking improves data quality for clinical
decision-making—Comparison of EHR and computer-acquired history data in
patients with chest pain. PloS one, 16(9), e0257677.
4) Lim, H. M., Ng, C. J., Teo, C. H., Lee, P. Y., Kassim, P. S. J.,
Nasharuddin, N. A., Yong, P. V. C., Sellappans, R., Yap, W. H., Lee, Y.
K., Hassan, Z. F. A., Krishnan, K., Sazlina, S. G., Idris, F., Hassan,
N., Ayub, E., Konstantinidis, S., Taylor, M., Poussa, C., Karlgren,
K., *Stathakarou, N*., Mordt, P., Nilsen, A. T., & Wharrad, H. (2021).
Prioritising topics for developing e-learning resources in healthcare
curricula: A comparison between students and educators using a modified
Delphi survey. PloS One, 16(6), e025347
5) Dratsiou I, Varella A, *Stathakarou N*, Konstantinidis S, Bamidis P.
Supporting Healthcare Integration of Refugees Exploiting Reusable
Learning Objects: The ASPIRE Framework. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2021
May 27 - 281:565-569. doi: 10.3233/SHTI210234. PMID: 34042639.
6) *Stathakarou*, N., S. Konstantinidis, H. Wharrad, D. Spachos, P. D.
Bamidis, L. A. Tortajada, V. T. Salcedo and K. Karlgren (2020).
Co-creating digital learning resources to enhance refugees’ health
integration in Europe.14th International Technology, Education and
Development, INTED2020 Proceedings, pp.: 3799-3803.
7) H. Wharrad, S. Konstantinidis, P. Lee, P. Yong Voon Chen, M. Taylor,
C.H. Teo, P. Mordt, *N. Stathakarou*, K. Karlgren, H.M. Lim, C.J. Ng,
P.S. Jahn Kassim (2020) Sharing expertise in digital co-creation and
pedagogy: ACORD – A capacity building project between Europe and
Malaysia in higher education e-learning,
INTED2020 Proceedings, pp.
5840-5846.
8) *Stathakarou, N*., Nifakos, S, Karlgren, K, Konstantinidis, S. T, P. D.
Bamidis, C. S. Pattichis and N. Davoody (2020). "Students' Perceptions on
Chatbots' Potential and Design Characteristics in Healthcare Education."
Stud Health Technol Inform 272: 209-212.
9) Kononowicz AA, Woodham LA, Edelbring S, *Stathakarou N*, Davies D,
Saxena N, Tudor Car L, Carlstedt-Duke J, Car J, Zary N. Virtual Patient
Simulations in Health Professions Education: Systematic Review and
Meta-Analysis by the Digital Health Education Collaboration. J Med
Internet Res 2019 - 21(7):e14676
10) Stöhr, C*., Stathakarou, N*., Mueller, F., Nifakos, S., & McGrath, C.
(2019). Videos as learning objects in MOOCs: A study of specialist and
non‐specialist participants' video activity in MOOCs. British Journal
of Educational Technology, 50(1), 166-176
11) *Stathakarou N*, Kononowicz AA, Henningsohn L, McGrath C. Modelling
Feedback in Virtual Patients: An Iterative Approach. Studies in health
technology and informatics. 2018 - 247:201-5.
12) *Stathakarou N*, Scully ML, Kononowicz AA, Henningsohn L, Zary N,
McGrath C. MOOC Learners’ Engagement with Two Variants of Virtual
Patients: A Randomised Trial. Educ. Sci. 2018 - 8, 44.
13) Berman AH, Biguet G, *Stathakarou N*, Westin-Hägglöf B, Jeding K,
McGrath C, Zary N, Kononowicz AA. Virtual Patients in a Behavioral
Medicine Massive Open Online Course (MOOC): A Qualitative and
Quantitative Analysis of Participants' Perceptions. Acad Psychiatry.
2017 Apr 7.
14) Henningsohn L, Dastaviz N, *Stathakarou N*, & McGrath C. (2017).
KIUrologyX: Urology As You Like It—A Massive Open Online Course for
Medical Students, Professionals, Patients, and Laypeople Alike. European
Urology, 72(3), 321-322.
15) Vaitsis C, *Stathakarou N*, Barman L, Zary N, & McGrath C. (2016).
Using Competency-Based Digital Open Learning Activities to Facilitate
and Promote Health Professions Education (OLAmeD): A Proposal. JMIR
research protocols, 5(3).
16) Kononowicz AA, Woodham L, Georg C, Edelbring S, *Stathakarou N*, Davies
D, Masiello I, Saxena N, Tudor-Car L, Car J, Zary N: Virtual patients
simulations for health professional education (Protocol). Cochrane
Database of Systematic Reviews 2016 - 5:CD012194.
17) Kononowicz AA, Berman AH, *Stathakarou N*, McGrath C, Bartyński T,
Nowakowski P, Malawski M, Zary N: Virtual Patients in a Behavioral
Medicine MOOC: A Case-Based Analysis of Technical Capacity and User
Navigation Pathways. JMIR Medical Education 2015 - 1(2):e8
18) *Stathakarou N*, Zary N, Kononowicz AA: Evaluation of three educational
use cases for using Virtual Patients in Massive Open Online Courses
(MOOCs): a Delphi study. Bio-Algorithms and Med-Systems 2015 - 11(2):
113-119 *Stathakarou N*, Zary N, Kononowicz AA: Beyond xMOOCs in
healthcare education: study of the feasibility in integrating virtual
patient systems and MOOC platforms. PeerJ 2014 Nov 13 - 2:e672
19) *Stathakarou N*, Zary N, Kononowicz AA: Virtual patients in massive open
online courses - design implications and integration strategies. Stud
Health Technol Inform. 2014 - 205:793-7
Conference Contributions:
1. H. Wharrad, S. Konstantinidis, P. Lee, P. Yong Voon Chen, M. Taylor, C.H.
Teo, P. Mordt, *N. Stathakarou*, K. Karlgren, H. M. Lim, C.J. Ng, P.S. Jahn,
Kassim, Y.H. Yap, S. Shariff Ghazali, C. Poussa. Sharing expertise in digital
cocreation and pedagogy: ACoRD – a capacity building project between Europe
and Malaysia in Higher Education (HE) e-Learning, 4th International
Conference on Medical Education Informatics (MEI 2021), virtual [12.07.2021]
2.* Natalia Stathakarou*, Maxine G. Harjani, Ioanna Dratsiou, Annita
Varella, Iraklis Tsoupouroglou, Panagiotis D. Bamidis, Stathis Th.
Konstantinidis, Vicente Traver Salcedo, Lucia Aparici Tortajada, Klas
Karlgren. Identifying and prioritizing topics to inform the content of
reusable learning objects: a three-step approach, 4th International
Conference on Medical Education Informatics (MEI 2021), virtual [12.07.2021]
3. Maxine G. Harjani, *Natalia Stathakarou*, Stathis Th. Konstantinidis,
Panos Bamidis, Vicente Traver Salcedo, Klas Karlgren. Developing RLOs for
refugees health integration, 4th International Conference on Medical
Education Informatics (MEI 2021), virtual [12.07.2021]
4.* Natalia Stathakarou*, Maxine G. Harjani, Ioanna Dratsiou, Annita
Varella, Iraklis Tsoupouroglou, Panagiotis D. Bamidis, Stathis Th.
Konstantinidis, Vicente Traver Salcedo, Lucia Aparici Tortajada, Klas
Karlgren. Panel: Co-creation of RLOs to enable refugees’ health
integration: Lessons learned from the ReHIn Erasmus+ project, 4th
International Conference on Medical Education Informatics (MEI 2021), virtual
[12.07.2021]
5.* Natalia Stathakarou*, Petter Mordt, Stathis Th. Konstantinidis, Heather
Wharrad, Ping Yein Lee, Chirk Jenn Ng, Phelim Voon Chen Yong, Klas Karlgren.
Repurposing of Digital Education Resources, 4th International Conference on
Medical Education Informatics (MEI 2021), virtual [12.07.2021]
6. Stathis Th. Konstantinidis, *Natalia Stathakarou*, Eirini Schiza, Iraklis
Tsoupouroglou Panagiotis D. Bamidis, Constantinos S. Pattichis. Panel:
Chatbots in Education – A new era on digital learning, 4th International
Conference on Medical Education Informatics (MEI 2021), virtual [12.07.2021]
7. Sonesson L., Boffard K., Karlgren K., Rydmark M*., Stathakarou N*.,
Trialogical Design Principles for Creating Virtual Patients: - support for
education and training in major trauma AMEE 2020 The virtual conference
[07.09.2020]
8. *Stathakarou N.*, Sonesson L., Lundberg, P. Gustafson, K. Boffard, M.
Khan, P. V. Wyk, P. Örtenwall and K. Karlgren (2020). Exploring team
leaders’ decision-making challenges in civilian and military complex
trauma. European Congress of Trauma and Emergency Surgery (ECTES). I. Marzi,
the European Society for Trauma and Emergency Surgery. 46: s113 (3-316).
9. V. V. Thang, N. V. Hung, L. T. B. Yen, H. D. Tuyen, *N. Stathakarou*.
Training against medical errors using virtual patients as an alternatively
effective approach for competency based education. MEI 2018 conference,
[06.09.2018]
10. R. Nurpeissova, A. Syzdykova, Zh. Bekbergenova, M. Zhakupbekova, X.
Shnaider, *N. Stathakarou*. Experience of using virtual patients with
medical error for undergraduate students in Astana Medical University, Leeds,
MEI 2018 conference, [06.09.2018]
11. Woodham L, Kononowicz AA, Hege I, Spachos D, Stathakarou N, Schwarz D,
Adler M. The WAVES Project: Implementing usability enhancements to Virtual
Patient systems. MedBiquitous Annual Conference 2018, May 21-22, 2018,
Baltimore, Maryland USA [Oral communcation]
12. Kononowicz A, Adler M, Schwarz D, Spachos D, *Stathakarou N*, Woodham
L. Enhancements in accessibility and usability of SBL environments: results
from the WAVES project AMEE 2017 conferece, Helsinki, Finland [28.08.2017]
13. Woodham L, *Stathakarou N*, Topps D, Adler A, Kononowicz A, Schwarz D,
Spachos D, Antoniou P. Integrating Virtual Scenarios using standards:
Experiences of the WAVES project. MedBiquitous Annual Conference 2017,
Baltimore, MD, USA [05.06.2017] (Oral communication)
14. Mcgrath C., Barman L., *Stathakarou N*., Vaitsis C., Zary N.: Competency
based digital Open Learning Activities as an innovative conceptual model to
facilitate and promote healthcare education. Digital Learning research
Network: Making Sense of Higher Education: Networks and Change, Stanford,
California [16.10.2015]
15. Kononowicz AA., Stathakarou N., Lilienthal A., Zary N.: Projekt Waves:
Czy e-nauczanie bazujące na scenariuszach jest wystarczająco proste? XVI
Konferencja Uniwersytet Wirtualny, Warszawa, Poland [23.06.2016] (Oral
Communication)
16. Kononowicz AA., *Stathakarou N*., Berman AH., Zary N.: Visual analytics
in branched virtual patients.
AMEE 2015 eLearning Symposium, Glasgow, Scotland , UK [06.09.2015]
17. Alfredsson J., Sejersen R., Stathakarou N., Zary N.: The e-Examination
Ecosystem in Healthcare Education: Information and Process Models, Medical
Informatics Europe, Thessaloniki, Greece [18.06.2015]
18. Kononowicz AA., Berman AH., *Stathakarou N*., Bartyński T., Nowakowski
P., Malawski M., Zary N.: Virtual Patients in a Behavioral Medicine MOOC:
Meeting the challenge of ensuring technical capacity and analyzing user
navigation patterns. MOOCs in Scandinavia Conference, Stockholm, Sweden
[12.06.2015]
19. Zary N., Kononowicz AA., Berman AH., Malawski M., *Stathakarou N*.:
Challenges and opportunities of using virtual patients in xMOOCs ,
MedBiquitous Annual Conference 2015, Baltimore, MD, USA [19.05.2015]
20. Kononowicz AA., *Stathakarou N*., Berman AH., McGrath C., Bartyński T.,
Nowakowski P., Malawski M., Zary N.: Virtual Patients in Massive Open Online
Courses: a technical toolbox. MCSB2015, Kraków Poland [14.05.2015]
[1] https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0274771
Teaching
- MSc Health Informatics, Karolinska Institutet: 5HI003 Healthcare organization
and management - Course leader
MSc Health Informatics, Karolinska Institutet: 5HI021 Current research and
trends in health informatics - guest lecturer
MSc Health Informatics, Karolinska Institutet: 5HI019 User needs,
requirements, engineering and evaluation - guest lecturer
Articles
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Article: STUDIES IN HEALTH TECHNOLOGY AND INFORMATICS. 2023;309:8-12
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Article: JMIR RESEARCH PROTOCOLS. 2023;12:e45969
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Journal article: STUDIES IN HEALTH TECHNOLOGY AND INFORMATICS. 2023;302:433-437
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Article: PLOS ONE. 2022;17(9):e0274771
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Article: HEALTH INFORMATICS JOURNAL. 2021;27(4):14604582211052253-146045822110522
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Article: STUDIES IN HEALTH TECHNOLOGY AND INFORMATICS. 2021;281:565-569
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Article: PLOS ONE. 2021;16(6):e0253471
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Article: STUDIES IN HEALTH TECHNOLOGY AND INFORMATICS. 2020;272:209-212
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Article: JOURNAL OF MEDICAL INTERNET RESEARCH. 2019;21(2):e12913
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Article: BRITISH JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY. 2019;50(1):166-176
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Journal article: COCHRANE DATABASE OF SYSTEMATIC REVIEWS. 2018;2018(6)
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Article: STUDIES IN HEALTH TECHNOLOGY AND INFORMATICS. 2018;247:201-205
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Journal article: EDUCATION SCIENCES. 2018;8(2):44
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Article: ACADEMIC PSYCHIATRY. 2017;41(5):631-641
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Article: JMIR RESEARCH PROTOCOLS. 2016;5(3):e143
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Journal article: COCHRANE DATABASE OF SYSTEMATIC REVIEWS. 2016;(5)
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Article: JMIR MEDICAL EDUCATION. 2015;1(2):e8
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Journal article: BIO-ALGORITHMS AND MED-SYSTEMS. 2015;11(2):113-119
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Article: STUDIES IN HEALTH TECHNOLOGY AND INFORMATICS. 2014;205:793-797
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All other publications
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Conference publication: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON EDUCATION AND NEW LEARNING TECHNOLOGIES. 2023;1:3131
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Conference publication: 2023;:91-94
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Conference publication: 2023;:76-83
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Book chapter: 2023;p. 165-173
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Conference publication: 2022;00:1-2
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Conference publication: 2022;00:2013-2021
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Conference publication: 2022;00:1-4
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Conference publication: INTED PROCEEDINGS. 2020;1:5840-5846
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Conference publication: INTED PROCEEDINGS. 2020;1:3799-3803
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Review: JOURNAL OF MEDICAL INTERNET RESEARCH. 2019;21(7):e14676
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Editorial comment: EUROPEAN UROLOGY. 2017;72(3):321-322
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Conference publication: SCANDINAVIAN JOURNAL OF UROLOGY. 2017;51:44
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Preprint: 2015;PeerJ Preprints
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Preprint: 2015;PeerJ Preprints
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Preprint: 2014;PeerJ Preprints
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Preprint: 2014;PeerJ Preprints
Employments
- Project Coordinator, Department of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, Karolinska Institutet, 2017-
- Phd Student, Department of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, Karolinska Institutet, 2019-2024
Degrees and Education
- Degree Of Master Of Medical Science 120 Credits With A Major In Health Informatics, Karolinska Institutet, 2014