Gunnar Nilsson

Gunnar Nilsson

Visiting address: Alfred Nobels Allé 23, 14183 Huddinge
Postal address: H1 Neurobiologi, vårdvetenskap och samhälle, H1 Allmänmedicin och primärvård, 171 77 Stockholm

About me

  • Professor emeritus of family medicine with emphasis on medical informatics. Extensive experience in management and development work in higher education. Specialist in family medicine with a clinical experience of 27 years, within 10 different specialties, from 7 hospitals and more than 10 medical units outside hospitals in Stockholm.

    Previously been Pro-Dean of Higher Education, Deputy Head of the Department NVS, Head of Division Family Medicine, Head of the Centre for Family Medicine (Stockholm County Council), member of the Faculty Council., Chair of the Docent Committee, and guest professor at Stockholm University.

Research

  • A bibliography of more than 100 scientific publications. Research work in family medicine, medical informatics and pedagogy. Principal supervisor of 3 and joint supervisor of 15 doctoral candidates in 9 different professions, of whom most have completed their doctoral or licentiate thesis.

Teaching

  • Extensive experience within undergraduate, research courses and continuing education, supervision of Master Course projects and a broad formal training in pedagogy. Pedagogic research including more than 20 publications and supervising four pedagogic doctoral programmes, of which three is defended. Extensive experience of educational and faculty leadership and development, including previous positions as Director of Medical Education and Pro-Dean of Higher Education. Experience from several strategic working groups and missions in higher education.

    Member of the Pedagogical Academy at KI since 2011. Awarded the Pedagogic prize at KI in 2013 and KI:s Silver Medal 2023. Teaching sabbatical in Singapore autumn term 2014 funded by the Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education (STINT).

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Grants

  • Swedish Research Council for Health Working Life and Welfare
    1 November 2021 - 31 October 2025
    Older adults make up approximately 20% of the Swedish population. The ongoing demographic development, with an ageing population and a continuously larger proportion of older adults, leads to continuously increasing demand for appropriate and efficient geriatric care. One particularly critical moment in the continuum of care for older adults is the transition between different responsible authorities, between regional and municipal care.The project consists of four phases and the aims are (I) to map and assess the situation in terms of health, care activities and resource use after discharge, (II) analyse associations with care-transition outcomes, (III) based on phase I-II, generate viable ideas for addressing and improving the situation, and (IV) implement new and improved ways of working as well as perform a post-implementation evaluation of effects (IV). The design of the study is closed cohorts based on registry data (phases I-II) together with an experience-based co-design (phase III), implementation and evaluation (phase IV).The data set leveraged in phases I-II consists of patient records from geriatric care, health care utilization data for six months after discharge extracted from the Stockholm Regional Healthcare Data Warehouse, socioeconomic data from Statistics Sweden, and data from the National Board of Health and Welfare on social services and death cause. In phase III, an experience-based co-design approach will be leveraged to develop a new model for the coordination of care, where the synthesised knowledge from phases I-II will be used as a base. In phase IV, the co-designed new model of coordination of care will be implemented. To be able to draw adequate conclusion from the outcome analyses, data on the process of implementation will be collected, and frequency of readmission will be the primary outcome measure to evaluate the effect of new ways of working. Costs of readmission will be computed before and after implementation.
  • Swedish Research Council for Health Working Life and Welfare
    1 January 2021 - 31 December 2023
  • Swedish Research Council for Health Working Life and Welfare
    1 January 2021 - 31 December 2023

Employments

  • Professor, Senior, Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, Karolinska Institutet, 2025-2025
  • Professor, Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, Karolinska Institutet, 2024-2024

Degrees and Education

  • Doctor Of Philosophy, Department of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology, Karolinska Institutet, 2002
  • Licentiate Degree, Department of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology, Karolinska Institutet, 2002

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