TraCeDem - organisation and governance
TraCeDem is co-led by Amaia Calderón-Larrañaga and Davide Liborio Vetrano at ARC, KI. A Steering Board chaired by Maria Ankarcrona oversees the centre. A stakeholder advisory group and a scientific advisory group provide guidance. The work is carried out through six scientific and four transversal packages led by KI researchers and collaborators.
Organisation and governance
TraCeDem is co-led by Amaia Calderón-Larrañaga and Davide Liborio Vetrano, at the Aging Research Center (ARC), Karolinska Institutet.
The centre is overseen by a Steering Board, chaired by Maria Ankarcrona, Head of the Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society at Karolinska Institutet. The organisation also consists of a Stakeholder Advisory Group that brings together all relevant actors in dementia research and care and ensures that the centre's activities are rooted in real-world issues, as well as a Scientific Advisory Group comprised of Swedish and international researchers from leading academic institutions who provide external expertise and support.
Six scientific work packages and four transversal work packages are led by researchers from Karolinska Institutet and their collaborators.
Leadership Team
Amaia Calderon Larrañaga
Principal ResearcherProject manager, Scientific Work Package leader, Transversal Workpackage leader.
Davide Liborio Vetrano
Principal ResearcherProject manager, Scientific Work Package leader, Transversal Workpackage leader.
Steering Board
- Maria Ankarcrona (KI/NVS, chair)
- Maria Eriksdotter (KI/Region Stockholm)
- Wilhelmina Hoffman (Svenskt demenscentrum)
- Christine Gustafsson (Sophiahemmet University)
- Elisabeth Åkesson (Stockholms Sjukhem)
- Martin Annetorp (FoU Aging, KS)
- PhD and postdoc representatives
- Amaia Calderón-Larrañaga (adjunct)
Stakeholder Advisory Group
- Demensförbundet
- Svenskt demenscentrum
- Primary care, Stockholm Region
- Department of Geriatric Care, KUH
- Sophiahemmet Hospital
- Jakobsbergs vårdcentral
- Stockholms Sjukhem
- Stockholms stad (the City of Stockholm)
- Bromma stadsdelsförvaltning
- Hässelby-Vällingby stadsdelsförvaltning
- Huddinge kommun
- Äldrecentrum (Stockholm Gerontology Research Center)
- FoU nu
- FoU nordost
- Nestor FoU-center
- NPO Äldres hälsa och palliativa vård
- Svensk Geriatrisk Förening (Geriatric Medicine in Sweden)
- SFAM - The Swedish Association of General Practice
- Svensk sjuksköterskeförening
- Sveriges Arbetsterapeuter
Main data infrastructures
- Swedish Dementia Registry
- NEAR
- Senior Alert
- Swedish Register of Palliative Care
- BPSD Swedish Registry
Innovative practice-based infrastructure
- TioHundra, Region Stockholm
- ESTHER project, Region Jönköping
- Silviahemmet
Scientific Advisory Group
- Petra Ullmanen, Stockholm University (Sweden)
- Teppo Kröger, University of Jyväskylä (Finland)
- Siri Rostoft, Oslo University Hospital (Norway)
- Janet Janbek, Copenhagen University Hospital (Denmark)
- Nathan Davies, Queen Mary University (UK)
- Carole Estabrooks, University of Alberta (Canada)
- Luigi Ferrucci, National Institute of Aging (USA)
- Elena Portacolone, University of California San Francisco (USA)