Natalia Georgia Stathakarou

Natalia Georgia Stathakarou

Project Coordinator

Natalia Stathakarou is a Research Project Coordinator at Karolinska Institutet and holds a PhD focused on simulation, gamification, and decision-making in civilian and military trauma care. Funded by

Telephone: +46852485298
Visiting address: Tomtebodavägen 18A, 17177 Stockholm
Postal address: C7 Lärande, Informatik, Management och Etik, C7 Informatik Koch Karlgren, 171 77 Stockholm
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About me

  • Natalia Stathakarou is a Research Project Coordinator at Karolinska Institutet and holds a PhD focused on simulation, gamification, and decision-making in civilian and military trauma care. Funded by the Swedish Armed Forces, her doctoral research explored how simulation-based approaches can support education and training in high-stakes healthcare contexts.

    She is currently Deputy Director of the Health Informatics MSc programme at Karolinska Institutet, where she also serves as a course leader, and she is a board member of SFMI.

    Natalia has more than 10 years of experience leading large national and international projects, with a strong focus on innovation, large-scale implementation, and strategic partnerships. She has successfully secured several national and international grants and coordinated funded initiatives across healthcare education, simulation and digital learning. Her interests centres on advancing simulation and educational technologies in healthcare, particularly in civilian, military, and disaster medicine. She is passionate about developing impactful innovations and fostering collaborations that support sustainable change at scale.

     
     



    Granted Projects:

    • UM-HEART-VR; 2026-2028; Capacity Building in Higher Education; Principal Investigator
    • DISCERN-DSS: 2025-2027; Capacity Building in Higher Education; Principal Investigator
    • CHAPTER-SEA: 2025-2027; Capacity Building in Higher Education; Principal Investigator
    • Sustainable Digital Tools for Teenage Mental Health Scoping Project (2023): Principal Investigator
    • ENTICE: Evaluating Novel Tangible and Intangible Co-creative Experiential Medical Education (2020-2023): Erasmus+ co-funded project
    • ReHIn: Refugees Health Integration (2019-2022): Erasmus+ co-funded project. The research project is co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme Strategic Partnerships and coordinated by MINT - Medical INTeractions at Karolinska Institutet, Department of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics. ReHIN aims to create web-based educational resources to raise awareness and enable  integration of refugees into the EU health culture and system. The project is a collaborative action research project between Karolinska Institutet (Sweden), University of Nottingham (UK), Aristotle University Thessaloniki (Greece) and Universitat Politècnica de València (Spain).
    • CEPEH: Chatbots in Healthcare Curricula (2019-2022): Erasmus+ co-funded project. CEPEH is co-Funded by the Erasmus+ Programme Strategic Partnership and is a collaborative action between University of Nottingham (UK), Karolinska Institutet (Sweden), Aristotle University Thessaloniki (Greece), Research Centre-RISE Limited (Cyprus).
    • ACoRD: Advancing Co-Creation of RLOs to Digitalize Healthcare Curricula (2018-2021): Erasmus+ co-funded project. ACoRD is a Capacity Building Erasmus+ Co-funded project, co-ordinated by the University of Nottingham, UK. Partners: Karolinska Institutet (MINT), Sweden, University of Stavanger, Norway, University of Malaya, Malaysia, University Puttra, Malaysia, Taylors University, Malaysia.
    • Identifying Modes of Feedback and Understanding Their Impact on Student Learning and Performance on Clinical Reasoning Skills (2017): Educational grant at KI
    • WAVES: Widening Access to Virtual Educational Scenarios (2016-2018): Erasmus+ co-funded project

      Website: http://wavesnetwork.eu

    • TAME: Training Against Medical Error (2015-2018): Erasmus+ co-funded project
    • MOOC Development (2013-2017): Behavioral Medicine, Urology, and Ethics of Biomedicine courses

Teaching

  • Teaching Portfolio:

    • MSc Health Informatics, Karolinska Institutet:
      • Course Leader: 5HI000: Health informatics - needs, objectives, and limitations
      • Course Leader: 5HI003 Healthcare Organization and Management
      • Guest Lecturer: 5HI021 Current Research and Trends in Health Informatics
      • Guest Lecturer: 5HI019 User Needs, Requirements Engineering, and Evaluation

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Employments

  • Project Coordinator, Department of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, Karolinska Institutet, 2017-
  • Phd Student, Department of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, Karolinska Institutet, 2019-2026

Degrees and Education

  • PhD, Heath Informatics & Healthcare education, LIME, Karolinska Institutet, 2026
  • Degree Of Doctor Of Philosophy, Department of Learning, informatics, Management and Ethics, Karolinska Institutet, 2026
  • Degree Of Master Of Medical Science 120 Credits With A Major In Health Informatics, Karolinska Institutet, 2014

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