Cecilia Mellstrand Navarro

Cecilia Mellstrand Navarro received her medical degree from the Karolinska Institutet, and completed her specialization in Orthopaedic and Hand Surgery at the Södersjukhuset hospital in Stockholm. She defended her PhD thesis at Karolinska Institutet in 2014. Her research background is in orthopaedic traumatology, and she has led several randomized controlled trials. She also has experience in registry-based research, health economic evaluations, and qualitative studies. Currently, her research focuses on upper extremity fractures, digital nerve injuries, rehabilitation, and wrist prosthetics. Since June 2021, she has been an Associate Professor (Docent) at the Karolinska Institutet. She is the co-founder of the Danderyd Wrist and Hand Initiative (D-WHIN) at Karolinska Institutet, Danderyd Hospital.

The Swedish Agency for Health Technology Assessment and Assessment of Social Services (SBU, Statens beredning för medicinsk och social utvärdering) is an independent national authority commissioned by the Swedish government to evaluate health care and social service interventions, producing Health Technology Assessment (HTA) reports. Between 2015 and 2017, Cecilia Mellstrand Navarro served as a medical expert for the report “Treatment Options of Arm Fractures in the Elderly – A Systematic Review and Assessment of the Medical, Economic, Social and Ethical Aspects. Swedish Council on Health Technology Assessment. Source, Stockholm: Swedish Council on Health Technology Assessment (SBU); 2017 SBU Assessments No. 262”, published in August 2017.
https://www.sbu.se/sv/publikationer/SBU-utvarderar/behandling-av-armfraktur-hos-aldre/

She also served as chair of an interprofessional expert group tasked with developing national treatment recommendations for distal radius fractures. This project, initiated by the Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions (Sveriges Kommuner och Landsting, SKL), was carried out between 2019 and 2021. The resulting publication is available at
https://nationelltklinisktkunskapsstod.se/vardprogramochvardforlopp [1].

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Upper extremity fractures, nerve injuries, rehabilitation of upper extremity conditions, patient experiences, health economics, and health care–related carbon dioxide emissions.