Gisela Dahlquist, MD, PhD is senior professor of pediatrics. Her research field is childhood onset type 1-diabetes and the focus is twofold: a) genetic and non genetic risk factors for the disease occurrence b) physical, psychological and social long term complications of the disease. The research group has developed a large database based on a nationwide childhood onset diabetes register (SCDR) using mainly epidemiological methods to further define important risk factors that may be preventable.