Division of Insurance Medicine

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Sickness absence affects individuals, health care, insurance organizations, employers, and society. Nevertheless, the scientific knowledge base is very limited. We conduct research, systematic literature reviews, post graduate training, and networking regarding sickness absence, work disability, health, and living conditions.

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Stockholm Stress Center

Welcome to the First Stockholm Insurance Medicine Lecture and Inauguration Lecture

14:30-16:15, June 13, Samuelsonsalen, Tomtebodavägen 6, Solna. Professor Øverland is an international expert regarding intervention studies with the aim to improve work participation in individuals with mental disorders. Ellenor Mittendorfer-Rutz has been appointed as KIs first professor in Insurance Medicine and will give her inauguration lecture.

Karolinska Institutet has now a professor in Insurance Medicine

Ellenor Mittendorfer-Rutz has been appointed as professor of Insurance Medicine at the Division of Insurance Medicine, the Department of Clinical Neuroscience. The research area of insurance medicine is relatively new, however, it has developed much during the last years. Karolinska Institutet has taken a leading role in this development both nationally and internationally – a role that will be even more pronounced now.

New VR grant to the Division of Insurance Medicine

Ellenor Mittendorfer-Rutz, Associate Professor and Head of the Division of Insurance Medicine has been granted 25,000,000 SEK by the Swedish Research Council for a research environment called REMAIN (”Refugee Minors And INtegration”). Five research groups from four different countries are involved in the research environment. The aim is to establish knowledge and find strategies to improve the social integration of refugees minors with mental disorders.

Cochrane Insurance Medicine

Now Cochrane Insurance Medicine (CIM) is established as a field within Cochrane. CIM aims to establish and make evidence based knowledge regarding insurance medicine available for professionals and users. The Division of Insurance Medicine has, together with groups from three other countries, since many years worked to establish this as a field within Cochrane.

Agreement on the new European Data Protection Legislation good for research

The European parliament, the Council of Ministers, and the European Commission have agreed on a common text which will replace national legislations on data protection by 2018 (PUL in Sweden).

16 May 2019 by Annika Evolahti. Editor: Ellenor Mittendorfer-Rutz.