Lina Davies Forsman

Lina Davies Forsman, MD, MGPH, PhD, Associate Professor
Senior Consultant Internal Medicine & Infectious Diseases
Affiliated researcher University of Sydney, Australia
~~I am a Senior Consultant in Infectious Disease and Internal Medicine at the
Infectious Disease department of Karolinska University Hospital, Solna,
Sweden. My main research interest is tuberculosis (TB), especially
multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB), an interest set in motion by
working for a year as a Senior Medical Officer in Tugela Ferry, Kwa-Zulu
Natal, South Africa, Ten years after working in South Africa I successfully
completed my thesis in Clinical Epidemiology, specialising in MDR-TB, at
Karolinska Institutet, in 2018. I have been a member of the steering group of
the Karolinska Institutet TB research centre and the National Advisory Board
for TB in Sweden for several years. I also have an interest in other
difficult to treat mycobacterial infections, including /M.abscessus/ and MAC,
and I am the chair of the Scandinavian NTM Expert Group.
I'm currently working in the University of Sydney, Australia, for an
international postdoc with Professor Jan-Willem Alffenaar.
After my postdoc, I will return to Sweden as a research fellow, funded by
Region Stockholm. My research group consists of three PhD students, for whom
I am the main supervisor of two.
2015 Pfizer scholarship
2014 Göran Sterner scholarship
2009 – 2022 Voted ”Best lecturer” 12 times by Karolinska medical
students
2018 Nominated for the “Exemplary employee award”, Karolinska University
Hospital (15 000 employees)
Postdoc University of Sydney, 2022-2023
Postdoc Region Stockholm, 2020-2022
Master of Global Public Health, 2020
Leading for change KI/KS, 2020-21
PhD Clinical Epidemiology, 2018
Research school for clinicians in Epidemiology, Karolinska Institutet,
2014-16
Consultant Infectious Disease, 2012
Consultant Internal Medicine, 2011
Registered Medical Practitioner, 2006