About me
Consultant at the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery and Anesthesiology, Karolinska University Hospital in Solna since 1993
Adjunct professor at the Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Karolinska Institutet since 2011
Research description
Main fields of my research are within epidemiology related to cardiac surgery. Together with a number of co-workers we have published reports of topics such as age and obesity related risks, diabetes, repeat cardiac surgery, infections, endocarditis, bleeding and neurologic complications, perioperative myocardial damage, late cardiac tamponade and on the effect of cardio-pulmonary bypass.
Education
MD Karolinska Institutet 1976
pHD Karolinska Instiutet 1981
Fulbright holder of scholarship: 1982- 83 Fellow Department of Cardiac Surgery, University of Alabama in Birmingham, Birmingham, USA. Associate professor Thoracic Surgery 1984