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Jan-Erik Karlsson

Senior Associate Professor

Associate Professor and Consultant, Vice dekan for collaboration at the Faculty of Medicine.

Presentation

Faculty of Medicine

In my work as vice dean, I work with collaboration, above all together with our education programs at the Faculty of Medicine and with Region 脰sterg枚tland, Region J枚nk枚ping County, Region Kalmar County and the municipalities in 脰sterg枚tland. I work together with the vice dean for education Malin Lindqvist Appell and focus above all on issues of clinical practice. In my work, I sit on the faculty board and the University Health Committee, and I am chairman of the Council for Healthcare Development. I am part of the theme group CREN (Circulation, Respiration, Erythron and Kidney) and I am responsible for the cardiology teaching in semester 6 of the medical program. I am the main supervisor of two PhD students, Walid El-Saadi and Per Andersson, and co-supervisor of Antheia Kissopoulou, Sammy Zwackman and Zeid Mahmood.
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Southeast healthcare region

In addition to this, I am also part of the management of the Southeast healthcare region, Knowledge Council of Medicine and emergency care, Knowledge Council of Diagnostics and the senses, National Program Area for Heart and Vascular Diseases and chairman of the Regional Program Area for Cardiovascular Diseases. Clinical activities at the Clinic Medicine at Ryhov County Hospital in J枚nk枚ping.

About me

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  • High School Certificate Examination, J枚nk枚ping, 1976
  • M.D. University of Gothenburg, 1982
  • Qualification as a specialist of Internal Medicine, 1989
  • Qualification as a specialist of Cardiology, 1990
  • Ph.D. University of Link枚ping, 1994
  • Ass. professor. University of Link枚ping, 2013

Positions

  • 1982 鈥� 1983 Resident, County Hospital, J枚nk枚ping, Sweden.
  • 1984 鈥� 1988 Resident, Department of Internal Medicine, County Hospital, J枚nk枚ping, Sweden.
  • 1988 - 1990 Resident, Department of Cardiology and Clinical Physiology, University Hospital, Link枚ping, Sweden.
  • 1990 Consultant, Department of Cardiology, UniversityHospital, Link枚ping, Sweden.
  • 1990 - 1997 Consultant, Department of Internal Medicine, County Hospital Ryhov, J枚nk枚ping, Sweden.
  • 1997 - 2007 Head of Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, County Hospital Ryhov, J枚nk枚ping, Sweden.
  • 2003 - 2007 Vice President, Department of Internal Medicine, County Hospital Ryhov, J枚nk枚ping, Sweden.
  • 2008 - 2009 Consultant, University lecturer, Department of Clinical Physiology, County Hospital Ryhov, J枚nk枚ping, Sweden.
    Chairman for the Cardiology group in southeast region of Sweden
  • 2009 - 2013 Vice President, Department of Internal Medicine, County Hospital Ryhov, J枚nk枚ping, Sweden. Chairman for the Cardiology group in southeast region of Sweden
  • 2014 鈥� 2015 Consultant, County Hospital Ryhov. Chairman for the Cardiology group in southeast region of Sweden
  • 2016 - Consultant, County Hospital Ryhov. University lecturer, Department of Health, Medicine and Caring Sciences, Link枚ping University, Link枚ping, Sweden. Chairman for the Cardiology group in southeast region of Sweden
  • 2021 - Vice dean, Faculty of Medicine, Link枚ping University, Link枚ping, Sweden.

Society Memberships

  • Swedish Medical Society
  • Swedish Society of Internal Medicine
  • Swedish Society of Cardiology, member of the board 1999-2001

Publications

Research

Cardio diet

The Cardiodiet Trial

Is a Mediterranean diet with reduced carbohydrate content a better choice than traditional low-fat diet for patients with coronary heart disease?

Organisation

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Division of Diagnostics and Specialist Medicine (DISP)

The division consists of three units (internal medicine, cardiovascular and radiological sciences) and contains seven subject areas within which research and teaching are conducted.