Chief physician at the Child and Youth Centre in Umeå and acting senior lecturer in Pediatrics. My research is clinically oriented with a focus on allergies and lung diseases in children.
I have worked as a doctor at the Child and Youth Centre in Umeå for more than 25 years with asthma and allergies in children as my main area of responsibility. I defended my PhD in pediatrics in 2016 at the Department of Clinical Sciences at Umeå University with a thesis on food allergies among children and adolescents in Norrbotten. My research study was conducted as a collaboration with the OLIN studies (Obstructive Lung Disease in Northern Sweden), which for more than 30 years conducted population studies on allergies and obstructive pulmonary disease in both children and adults. After my dissertation, I still have a research collaboration with the OLIN studies. This includes, among other things, a doctoral student supervision for Rebecca Johansson, a doctor at Clinical Chemistry at Sunderby Hospital, who researches allergenic components in fur animal allergens.
In the years after my dissertation, I returned to working mainly clinically and developing our work with allergy patients. I also developed our work with children with chronic lung diseases other than asthma. In parallel with my clinical work, I run a clinical study (FICS) that investigates the occurrence, tolerance development, oral and intestinal flora and immunological mechanisms in children with a particular type of food allergy called food protein induced enterocolitis syndrome (FPIES). Since May 2022, pediatrician Magnus Öhlund at the Child and Youth Center in Skellefteå is a doctoral student in the FICS study.
Since the autumn of 2021, I have had the privilege of acting as a senior lecturer in pediatrics at the Department of Clinical Sciences at Umeå University. This has meant more time for teaching, research and supervision. In May 2022, the National Board of Health and Welfare granted the Child and Youth Centre in Umeå to become one of four national centres for certain chronic lung diseases in children. The assignment includes research in the subject area and together with colleagues from several different professional categories at the Child and Youth Centre, researchers in pediatrics at the Department of Clinical Sciences and researchers from related fields such as ear, nose, throat and pulmonary medicine, we are now working to start up a longitudinal research project to highlight the challenges surrounding children with sleep-disordered breathing from different perspectives.