Dorota Religa

Dorota Religa

Professor/Senior Physician | Docent
Visiting address: Blickagången 16, 14152 Huddinge
Postal address: H1 Neurobiologi, vårdvetenskap och samhälle, H1 Klinisk geriatrik Religa, 171 77 Stockholm
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About me

  • Professor in geriatrics

    Consultant / Specialist doctor in geriatrics

    Education
    - MD 1999
    - PhD 2006
    - Associate Professor 2014
    - KI Professor 2020

Research

  • Studies about multimorbidity, frailty, dementia (Alzheimer disease), cognition and aging.

    Main supervisor
    - PhD student Christian Molnar MD, specialist in primary care
    - Covid-19 and older adults, registration 2021

    Co-supervisor
    - PhD student Frida Duell (KI, NVS)
    - PhD student Madeleine Åkerman (KI, NVS)
    - PhD student Emil Aho (KI, NVS)
    - PhD student Karolina Gustavsson (KI, MEB)
    - PhD student Wojciech Timler (Medical University of Lodz, Poland)


    Post docs: Gabriela Spulber, Juraj Secnik

    Ongoing : KI main supervisors master MD: Anders Wikberg, Josefine Jonsson, Adella Kouki, Christina Toubal, Greta Nordebäck

    Previously main supervisor for PhD
    - Theofanis Tsevis, specialist doctor in geriatrics, PhD 2024
    - Alcohol consumption and cognition
    - Emilia Schwertner psychologist PhD 2022
    - Factors associated with behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia
    - Juraj Secnik MD PhD 2021
    - Diabetes mellitus type 2 in dementia: Prevalence, treatment, survival and blood biochemistry
    - Pavla Cermakova MD PhD 2017
    - Cardiovascular disease in dementia
    - Åke Grundberg nurse PhD 2015

    Mental health promotion among community-dwelling seniors with multimorbidity : perspectives of seniors, district nurses and home care assistants

    Co-supervisors
    - Marie Tyrrell PhD 2020
    - Sharan Ananthaseshan PhD 2017
    - Emily Ball, PhD 2022, University of Edinburgh, “Predicting post-stroke cognitive impairment using acute stroke neuroimaging and other biomarkers”


    Main supervisor - alumni KI master MD: Lars Cedergren, Joel Lovas, Liselia Bognandi, Milla Huttula, Pontus Dannberg, Shayan Bukhari, Hugo Söderström, Oliver Edner, Tanzir Hossain, Karwan Charboti, Bijoy Mohammed, Sofia Lim, Filippa Martinsson, Romina Walian, Ramin Sasani, Sara Fadhil, Aleksander Rytarowski, Joséphine Allheim, Ghadir Almosawi, Naima Ali Aden, Miina Saarikko, Gustav Lundvall, Maria Engstrand, Axel Haglind, Greta Häggström, Daria Julianna Kozlowska, David Hariri, Liv Törner Monsenego, Steven Nehme, Oliver Pihl, Jovana Stankovic, Carl-Fredrik Fries, Katarina von Renteln, Anton Ek, David Esteban Garces Guzman, William Kaplan

    Uppsala University: Maja Nelson

    Co-supervisor: Hanna Eriksson, Ingrid Nilsson Modéer

Teaching

  • Dementia and society | Neurology and clinical neuroscience | Cambridge University Press
    - Chapter 13 Driving and dementia

    Management of Patients with Dementia - The Role of the Physician SPRINGER
    - Chapter 6 Review of Medication in Patients with Dementia

    Drogowskazy w geriatrii 2021
    https://pzwl.pl/Drogowskazy-w-geriatrii, 154259986, p.html

Articles

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Employments

  • Professor/Senior Physician, Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, Karolinska Institutet, 2020-

Degrees and Education

  • Docent, Karolinska Institutet, 2014
  • Doctor Of Philosophy, Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, Karolinska Institutet, 2006

Supervisor

  • Karolina Gustavsson, Muti-omics of aging and risk for dementia, 2024

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