Karolinska University Hospital
Stockholm, Sweden
I graduated as physical therapist at Karolinska Institutet in 1991. I have been a clinician withing the field of rheumatology since 1993. I completed my PhD-studies at Karolinska Institutet in 2003, defending my doctoral thesis entitled "Exercise and clinical outcome measures in patients with polymyositis and dermatomyositis". I completed my post-doc research fellowship 2007-2008 at the division of Rheumatology, Mayo Clinic, MN, USA under supervision of Dr Steven Ytterberg and Dr Ann Reed. I have continued to focus my research on molecular and clinical effects of exercise and development of clinical outcome measures in the idiopathic inflammatory myopathies. I became an associate professor (docent) at Karolinska Institutet in 2014, and am adjunt senior lecturer at the Department of Medicine, Solna since 2022. I lead a small research group of PhD-students within the large, multidiciplinary myositis research group at the Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Karolinska Institutet. I am also teh team leader of the myositis research group. Since 2019, I am chair of the International Myositis Assessment and Clinical Studies group (IMACS) Rehabilitation and Exercise Scientific Interest Group. Since 2011, I am co-chair of the OMERACT Myositis Working group. I have published altogether 81 peer-reviewed original and review papers within the field of myositis and systemic sclerosis.
12S162: Abstracts: Patient Outcomes, Preferences, & Attitudes I: Assessment Tools (0823–0828)
Sunday, November 12, 2023
4:00 PM – 5:30 PM PT
Disclosure(s): No financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose
1157: Experience of Pain in Adults with Idiopathic Inflammatory Myopathies, Myositis
Monday, November 13, 2023
9:00 AM – 11:00 AM PT
Disclosure(s): No financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose
