Johan Hedström

I am a trained optometrist and graduated in 2012 after studies at Linnaeus University in Kalmar. Subsequently, I obtained a master’s degree in clinical optometry from the Karolinska Institutet 2019 and began my doctoral studies in 2022 with Abinaya Priya Venkataraman as the main supervisor.
Since 2019, I have been working in optometry education and the master’s program in clinical optometry at the Karolinska Institutet. I have been teaching and responsible for various courses since 2019, and I have been involved in the development of a clinical training clinic operated in collaboration between the Karolinska Institutets and St. Erik's Eye Hospital. A training clinical staffed by resident doctors, eye specialist doctors, optometry students, master's program students, eye nurse students, and candidates from the medical program. Here, among other things, students from the Karolinska Institutet can broaden and deepen their knowledge in an interprofessional learning environment.

I teach and am responsible for courses at the undergraduate and advanced levels. As a contributor to the development of the Clinical Training Clinic, I have helped create an interprofessional learning environment that received the KLOK Prize in 2023 (Clinical Learning through Organizational and Competence Development). This award aims to highlight good examples of organizations that, through good leadership and organization with a focus on learning, promote high-quality workplace-based education.