Time: 05/29/2019 9:50AM
Location: 401-1412
Reporter: Prof. Jan Sundquist
Dr. Jan Sundquist is a Professor of Family Medicine at Lund University and Director of the Center for Primary Health Care Research, Malmö, Sweden. He is also an adjunct professor in Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, USA and a visiting professor in Shimane University in Japan. He received his M.D. degree in University of Umeå in 1976 and his PhD in Lund University in 1994, Sweden. He finished his post-doc training in Stanford University in USA in 1999.
He had ever worked at other famous institutes including Family and Community Medicine, Karolinska Institutet (Professor and Dean) and Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford University (Counsulting Professor).
His record of scholarly, clinical, administrative experience and accomplishments includes an extensive number of peer-reviewed publications (651 articles published), specialties in both family and community medicine, cardiovascular epidemiology and public health. A key aspect of his research has been the health of men and women of reproductive age, with a particular emphasis on the effects of the social environment on psychiatric and substance use disorders. He has also used clinical studies, randomized trials, and large nationwide databases to provide insights into mechanisms and risk factors for psychiatric disorders and substance use disorders and risk factors. His research has a strong focus on the influence of social and familial environments on psychiatric disorders and other chronic disorders.
Between 1993 and 2018/05 He had published 651 articles in international peer-reviewed medical and public health journals, with an average impact factor = 3478.9/647 =5.4 and a total impact factor =3478.9. His Scopus h-index from 1993 –2018/02 is 52.