Dorota Religa

Professor in geriatrics

Consultant / Specialist doctor in geriatrics

Director of Swedish registry for cognitive/dementia disorders, SveDem

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

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

Main supervisor
- PhD student Christian Molnar MD, specialist in primary care, Familjeläkarna
Covid-19 and older adults, registration 2021, halv -time 2026

-PhD student Julia Gyhagen MD, specialist in geriatrics, Ersta Hospital

The influence of age, co-morbidities and frailty on surgical management strategies in the aging population, registration 2026

-PhD student Isabell Dillström Gustafsson, MD, specialist in geriatrics, registration 2026

High-Risk Clinic Research Program: Frailty, Aging, and Outcomes

-PhD student Alexandre Bonnard ongoing registration

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, Carlos Amo, Antonio Mazzella Seddigh, Avin Hajo, Sareen Ahmad 

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, Josefine Jonsson, Adella Kouki, Christina Toubal, Greta Nordebäck, Evelina Ernström Hukkanen, Linda Löfdahl, Rand Amin, Annelie Sjöholm, Melsa Karhan, Niam Farju

Uppsala University: Maja Nelson

Co-supervisor: Hanna Eriksson, Ingrid Nilsson Modéer

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

Dementia and Society

Management of Patients with Dementia: The Role of the Physician (Springer, 2021), edited by Kristian Steen Frederiksen and Gunhild Waldemar
- Chapter 6 Review of Medication in Patients with Dementia

Management of Patients with Dementia: The Role of the Physician | Springer Nature Link

Drogowskazy w geriatrii 2021
Drogowskazy w geriatrii - w księgarni internetowej PWN

Supervision to doctoral degree

• Karolina Gustavsson, Muti-omics of aging and risk for dementia, 2024-
• Theofanis Tsevis, Alcohol consumption and cognition, 2024