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Staff

Here you will find teachers, researchers, doctoral students and administrative staff at the Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine. For a list of those affiliated with the Department, such as Emeriti, research students and part time teachers, please click the link Show affiliated staff.

Employees

Albin Dahlin Almevall
Albin Stjernbrandt

Senior consultant physician and associate professor, engaged in occupational and environmental research.

Alexander Shayesteh Afshar

Assistant Professor and Senior Consultant in Dermatology and Venereology

 

Anders Blomberg

Professor and Senior Consultant in Internal and Respiratory Medicine.

Head of Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine.

Anders Själander
Andreas Hult

Researcher in Sports Medicine and Public Health with a special focus on how our lifestyle and more specifically our level of physical activity predicts our future health and risk of illness.

Andreas Tornevi

Andreas Tornevi - background in mathematical statistics, PhD in environmental medicine and works mainly with epidemiological studies. 

Andree Wennstig

General practitioner at Ånge Health Center and involved in medical education in the subject General Medicine. Researches lifestyle habits and how healthcare can help patients to a healthier lifestyle.

Anette Forsgren

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My name is Anita and I'm a lecturer at the Department of Psychology. I research and teach about working life and health from a psychological perspective.

Anna Bengtsson
Anna Myleus

MD PhD

Associate Professor and Resident Physician in Family Medicine.

Director of the National Research School in General Practice.  

Anna Nyfelt
Anna Oudin

Anna Oudin is an epidemiologist and statistician. Her research is about how air pollution and other environmental factors may affect the brain, eg dementia and mental health.

Anna Strnadova

PhD student lead by Urban Hellman. My project focuses on the role of glucose metabolism in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

Anna Södergren

Associate professor and Senior cunsultant in Rheumatology

Anna Wikner
Anna-Sara Molin
Anne Lindberg
Annelie Behndig

MD PhD

Associate Professor in Pulmonary Medicine

 

Bengt Järvholm

I am senior professor of occupational and environmental medicine. I have previously been a senior physician at Occupational and Environmental Medicine at the university hospital.

Bengt Wahlin
Bertil Forsberg

Senior Professor of Environmental Medicine 

Björn Pilebro
Camilla Sandberg

I am an Associate Professor in Physiotherapy and work as a university lecturer at the Department of Community Medicine and Rehabilitation, at the Physiotherapy Program.

Christofer Åström

I'm working with research on how high temperatures and air pollution can affect our health and who are most vulnerable. I'm also looking at how this could change as the climate is changing.

Elin Chorell

My research is focused on identifying mechanisms the underlie development and remission of typ 2 diabetes.

Elin Lindahl
Elisabet Nylander

Sexually transmitted infections (STI) from different points of view

Erosive Lichen Planus a generalized disease and not just a skin- and mucosal disease?

Erin Stafford

I am a postdoctoral fellow working in Henrik Sjödin's group in the Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine. My research is on mathematical modeling of infectious diseases.

Eva-Lotta Glader

Senior lecturer and chief physician in internal medicine and specialist in clinical pharmacology.
Teaches and researches in the field of vascular diseases, obesity and drug epidemiology.

Frida Bergman

My research is about physical activity, sedentary behavior and associated health effects.

Gani Bajraktari
Hans Orru
Hans Pettersson

The aim of my research is to investigate and improve the working environment. How cold, noise and vibrations from machines affect the health of workers and how to reduce the risk of ill health.

Hedi Katre Kriit

I am a PhD student at Sustainable Health and my work will develop methods and knowledge to assess the health consequences of car traffic and sustainable transport solutions in modern cities.

Helena Backman

Researcher and project leader within the Obstructive Lung Disease in Northern Sweden (OLIN)  Studies, an epidemiological research program ongoing since 1985.

Helena Karlsson
Heléne Andersson

I work as a communicator in the Department of Diagnostics and Intervention. 

Henrik Olstrup
Henrik Sjödin

Researches on public health, global health and infectious epidemiology. Looking at the spreading dynamics of emerging infectious diseases using mathematical modeling.

Ina Asklund
Ina Danquah
Ingrid Liljelind

My research and teaching is on occupational and environmental medicine.

Ingvar Bergdahl

Associate Professor and Lecturer in Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Director of the Biobank Research Unit

Jan Carlo Semenza
Jens Wahlström

My research focuses on how the work environment affects our health and productivity. Examples of areas in the work environment are ergonomics, organizational factors, cold and vibrations.

Jerry Öhlin

Researcher in physical activity, occupational health and geriatrics. 

 

Joachim Ögren
Joacim Rocklöv

Epidemiologist and modeller focusing on studying the impacts of climate change on health and how climate information can be used for public health prevention.

Johan Ljungberg
Johan Nilsson Sommar

Associate professor in occupational and environmental medical research at Sustainable Health and conducts research in air pollution, physical activity and health.

Jonas Wallvik
Jonathan Wiklund
Julia Goedecke
Julia Otten

Endocrinologist with research focus type 2 diabetes

Junwen Guo

Researches on climate change impacts on infectious disease epidemiology. Coordinates research activities in relation to, for example, the Lancet Countdown 2030 and the ENBEL project.

Karin Björklund
Kenny Kalin
Konstantina Vouzouneraki
Kristina Eriksson
Kristina Lindblom

I am a communications officer at Public Health and Clinical Medicine with administrative responsibility for Sustainable Health. Also works as project administrator for VIPVIZA and UTRI.

Lena Jakobsson
Linda Vidman
Linnéa Höök
Lisbeth Slunga Järvholm

My research is about how we create sustainable workplaces with good work environment and enable work up to old age. I am also involved in research on the health effects of natural environments.

Lotta Harnevik
Maja af Klinteberg
Malin Olsson
Malin Sjöström

MD, PhD

Senior lecturer and general practitioner

 

Mante Hedman
Marcus Lind
Marcus Schmitt-Egenolf

• Real-world evidence, Societal impact of medicine, Lifestyle medicine, Ethics, Psoriasis & Melanoma

Maria Brännholm Syrjälä

The aim of my research is to investigate behavioral changes and health effects from a mHealth (mobile health) intervention focusing on reducing occupational sedentary behaviour in type 2 diabetes. 

Maria Friberg
Maria Nordendahl
Maria Wennberg

Senior research assistent. Leg. dietitian, PhD in Environmental medicine.

Maria Öström
Marie Eriksson

I am a professor in statistics with a special interest in statistical applications in medicine, including register studies, epidemiology and clinical trials.

Marina Treskova
Martin Andersson

Senior consultant physician, associate professor. Main research area is occupational and environmental lung disease.

Mattias Brunström

Assistant professor of cardiology
Associate professor of epidemiology

Melony Fortuin-De Smidt

My research focuses on the relationship between health outcomes and physical activity and sedentary behaviour. 

Michael Ott
Mikael Brink

MD, PhD.

Assistant professor of Rheumatology

Mikael Flockhart
Nikolai Stenfors

Senior lecturer and associate professor. Consultant respiratory physician at Östersund Hospital, Östersund.

Nils Andersson
Olivia Gästgivars
Olov Rolandsson

I am a Senior Professor, and Researcher, at Umeå University. My research focuses on diabetes; causes and consequences.

Patrik Wennberg

Professor, MD, PhD. Research focused on physical activity and sedentary behaviour. Teaching in general practice.

Per Dahlqvist

Lecturer and consultant in internal medicine and endocrinology

Teaching and research in clinical endocrinology mainly pituitary and adrenal

Per Lindqvist

Professor in Clinical Physiology. Reserach focus on cardiac imaging in cardiac amyloidosis and exercise hemodynamics in heart failure

Per Liv

Statistician with special interest in epidemiology and clinical trials.  

Per Wester
Pontus Karling

Chief Physician in Medical Gastroenterology. Conducts patient-close research in the area of ā€‹ā€‹functional bowel disease and inflammatory bowel disease where biobank studies are also conducted.

Rebecca Tapper

My PhD project looks at the health effects of cold exposure in arctic climates with a focus on a sustainable working life. The project is part of the Arctic research school.

Rima Sulniute
Robert Buckland
Robin Henriksson
Sabine Björk
Sai San Moon Lu
E-mail
sai.lu@umu.se

My postdoctoral research centers on epidemiological studies identifying environmental risk factors for mental illness. I also investigate the impact of antibiotics on cancer risk and prognosis. 

Sandra Arvidsson
Sara Själander
Stefan Söderberg

MD, PhD
Professor in Internal Medicine and Senior Consultant in Cardiology

Sussi Mikaelsson

As part of my work, I act as Project Manager for two EU funded project within the Erarsmus+ programme:

1) XR-skills (https://xrskill.infoproject.eu/)

2) ClassTHIFA (https://www.classthifacoaching.eu/)

Thomas Mooe
Thomas Sandström
Thorbjörn Lundberg

Senior lecturer and general practitioner. Research focused on ear disease and new diagnostic methods using digital technique and artificial intelligence. Developing gamification as teaching aid.

Timotej Strmen
Tommy Olsson

Senior Professor of Endocrinology
Consultant in endocrinology

Tova Eurén Magnusson
Towe Wadensten
Ulf Näslund

Professor of Cardiology, Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umeå University.

Ulrika Andersson
Ulrika Morris
Urban Hellman

My research interest is the metabolism of hyaluronan in inflammation and tissue growth.

Verah Nafula Luande

I am a PhD student in Henrik Sjödin's  lab researching the feasibility of ecosystem restoration to achieve nature-based solutions to battle vector-borne disease transmission.

Veronica Hellström
Viktoria Wahlström

My research focuses on work environment and health in office environments, but also ergonomics and physical strain at work.

Wasif Raza

The primary concern of my research is to examine the effect of environmental hazards on health. I am also looking at the effect of long term exposure of air pollution on dementia

Zia Farooq

Zia is PhD student in Henrik Sjödin lab and is conducting research on predictive modelling of the spread of various infectious diseases using advanced machine learning and AI.

Latest update: 2024-01-16