Jeanette Winterling

I work as a head of the Psychooncology unit for adult cancer patients and the survivorship unit for adults that had cancer as a child at the
Comprehensive Cancer Centre (Theme Cancer) at the Karolinska Comprehensiv Cancer Centre at Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm.

As a researcher I am conected to Yvonne Wengströms research group at Karolinska Institutet.

Education:

Registred Nurse 1997
Basic education in Psychoterapy 2000
Magister in Caring Science 2002
PhD in Caring Science 2007

Associate professor in Caring Sience 2023

My research has consistently focused on psychosocial aspects of patients and relatives with cancer. I finished my PhD in 2007 at Uppsala University with the thesis "Hope and Despair - Philosophy of life, expectations and optimism in cancer patient and their spouses”. The thesis involved life situation, philosophy of life,  optimism and bereavement in patients with gastrointestinal cancer in a palliative phase, and their spouses, as well as on cancer patients' expectations on the time coming after they finished a curative cancer treatment. I did a postdoc in the /Fex-Can r/esearch project which included to examine different aspects of children, teens and young adults' situation during and after cancer, such as life situation, school situation, sexuality and fertility.

I am involved in several resarch project but these the project I´m leading or being one of the leaders in: 

• The MyCode project - It consists of several subprojects with the aim to provide AYAs aged 16-30 years of age close to diagnosis and under their cancer treatment with support and tools to better cope with their cancer journey. One subproject is about adapting, implementing and evaluating a suopprt moddel for AYAs, including a team young and the PRISM intervention at Karolinska and Sahlgrenska Comprehensive cancer centre. 
• The aCent research project - It is about developing, implementing and evaluation a model for person-centred care for patients and family caregivers in the context of allogenic stem cell transplantation.
• The Donor research project - It is about investigationd the psychological well being of donors in allogenic stem cell transplantation.
• The Frailty project -  It is about investigating frailty in the context of lung cancer with the sceening tool of frailty called the Edmonton Frail Scale.

I am course coordinator for the course Rehabilitation within cancer care, 7.5 hp at Karolinska Institutet and are involved in other courses at Karolinska as well as other Universities.