Kristina Fahnehjelm

My name is Kristina Teär Fahnehjelm and I am a paediatric ophthalmologist at St. Erik Eye Hospital in Stockholm. I am also Adjunct Professor of
Ophthalmology at the Department of Clinical Neuroscience, KarolinskaInstitutet. I am also the course director for the Ophthalmology Course for medical students at KI and the Erasmus-students coming to KI. I am St. Eriks representative for ERN EYE and a member of the National Board of ROP. 

1985 Graduation Medical School Karolinska Institutet (KI) Stockholm
1985-1987 Internship (AT) Bollnäs/Södertälje/Salem
1987 Legitimerad läkare
1987-1993 Residency in Ophthalmology
1993 Specialist in Ophthalmology including specialist examination.
2003 PhD. Thesis “Posterior ocular malformations in children. Teratological aspects” KI.
2009 Appointed Associate Professor KI, Department of Clinical Neuroscience.
2011-2013 European Leadership Development Programme
2015 Adjunct Professor Gothenburg University
2018 Adjunt Lecturer KI
2020 Adjunct Lecturer KI

2024 Adjunct Professor KI

2020 Marianne Bernadottes Price Pediatric Ophthalmology 2020

Main research areas are children with ocular malformations mainly optic disc hypoplasia and optic disc coloboma and microphthalmia/anophthalmia. Also children with inheredited metabolic disorders includinge mucopolysacharidosis, Alagille and LCHAD-deficiency as well as patients safety.