Aleksandra Kanina

I am a medical doctor with a PhD degree from the Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, currently working as a postdoctoral researcher with focus on epidemiology of psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis. 

Education
2020 - 2025 PhD in Medical Science, Karolinska Institutet

2018 - 2020 Master´s in Public Health, Epidemiology, Karolinska Institutet

2016 - 2018 Medical Resident, Saint-Petersburg State University

2010 - 2016 General Medicine, Saint-Petersburg State University

Academic prises and awards
2023 - APSARD, Research award for poster presentation

2024 - EPA, Reseach prise for the best publication in Epidemiology

My PhD focused on prenatal and early life exposure to stress and its associations with autism and ADHD using Swedish population registers and Norwegian Mother, Father and Child Cohort Study (MoBa). The aim of my project was to disentangle the effects of unmeasured familial confounding by using family-based study designs. The dissertation can be found here. In the posdoctoral project at Department of Medicine Huddinge I worked on progression to major adverse liver outcomes in patients with alpha-1 antitripsyn deficiency using Swedish register data. 

Currently, I am working as a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Medicine Solna, CMM in Dermalotogy unit with focus on epidemiology of psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis using Swedish register data and Stockholm Psoriasis Cohort.

Co-supervisor of Master thesis for Zhou Li in Masters in Public Health and Epidemiology, KI