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 am the team leader of the Karolinska Institutet 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, and board member of the International Myositis Health Research collaborative Alliance (MIHRA) and member of The Myositis Association advisory board. I have published altogether 96 peer-reviewed original and review papers within the field of myositis and systemic sclerosis.
High-Intensity Exercise in Myositis and Other Rheumatic Conditions
Sunday, October 26, 2025
3:15 PM – 3:45 PM Central Time
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