Time: 05/29/2019 9:50AM
Location: 401-1412
Reporter:Prof. Kristina Sundquist
Dr. Kristina Sundquist is Professor and Head of the unit “Family medicine, cardiovascular epidemiology and lifestyle” Lund University, Sweden. She is also an adjunct professor in Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, USA and a visiting professor in Shimane University in Japan. She received his M.D. degree in University of Uppsala in 1989 and his PhD in Karolinska Institutet in 2003, Sweden. Currently She is PI and MPI respectively for two large projects at Lund University funded by the National Institutes of Health (“Neighborhoods and Coronary Disease: Exploring Mechanisms and Improving Methods” and “Social, Developmental and Genetic Epidemiology of Alcohol Use Disorders”). She has expertise in chronic disease epidemiology, gene X environment interactions, multilevel modeling, research on health inequalities, clinical interventions, and primary health care research. She has many years of expertise in the use of nationwide databases for studies of chronic diseases, e.g., cancer (Lancet Oncology, Journal of Clinical Oncology, Leucemia, Blood), type 2 diabetes and autoimmune disorders (Diabetologia, American Journal of Epidemiology & American Journal of Gastroenterology), and premature mortality (JAMA). She was appointed a Professor of Family Medicine at Lund University in 2010 after three years as a Professor of Family Medicine at Karolinska Institute in Stockholm. She has been visiting professor in medicine at Stanford University for the last three years. Her research has a strong focus on the influence of social and familial environments on chronic disorders. She has used large databases to provide insights into pathogenic mechanisms in cancer, chronic psychiatric disorders, CVD, type 2 diabetes, and autoimmune disorders. In addition, She was the first researcher to study the concordant (same-subtype) and discordant (different-subtype) associations between ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke. Between 2003 and 2018/05 She has had 558 articles published in international peer-reviewed medical & public health journals with a median impact factor = 4.0, average impact factor 2529.3/523=4.8 and a total impact factor = 2529.0. Her Scopus h-index from 1999 – 2017/10 is 43 (excluding self-citations).