Louise Emilsson

Associate professor, HELSAM, University of Oslo, Norway

Docent of Epidemiology, MEB, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden

Director and specialist in General Practice, Vårdcentralen Nysäter, Värmland, Sweden

• UEG Rising Star Award 2025
• Best citation award at the 22nd WONCA meeting in Seoul 2018 for the article "Examining Bias in Studies of Statin Treatment and Survival in Patients With Cancer" published in JAMA Oncology 2018.

ACADEMIC INTERESTS
* Gastrointestinal cancers
* Epidemiology - methods
* Celiac disease
* Screening
* Registry and big data research
* Causal inference
* Statistical analysis
* Clinical research

My research interests spans a broad range of topics within medicine, reflecting my clinical background as a specialist in general practice. As an epidemiologist I am particularly interested in epidemiological methodology, causal inference and spent my postdoc time with the causal inference group at Harvard School of Public health. I have extensive experience from big data analyses such as Swedish quality registers, Scandinavian national health care registers and the American SEER-Medicare registers.

I teach in the MD program and I am also responsible for a 2-week elective class (MED3068 modul 3) at the University of Oslo. Previously I have taught EBM and research methodology at the MD programme at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm and I have also built an interactive self-correcting ECG tutorial/test for medical students at Örebro University.