Per Östberg

Per Östberg

Professor/Speech and Language Pathologist

Professor combined with position as speech-language pathologist, Karolinska University Hospital

Visiting address: Blickagången 9 A, Enheten för logopedi F67, 14186 Stockholm
Postal address: H9 Klinisk vetenskap, intervention och teknik, H9 CLINTEC Logopedi, 141 52 Huddinge
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About me

  • Professor of Speech and Language Pathology and speech-language pathologist at Karolinska University Hospital.


    Textbooks: 

    Klinisk neurovetenskap [Clinical Neuroscience] by Bo Norrving, Håkan Aldskogius, Christina Brogårdh, Birgitta Jakobsson Larsson, Jerry Larsson, Katharina Stibrant Sunnerhagen, Kerstin Tham, and Per Östberg. Liber 2015.

    Förvärvade språk- och kommunikationsstörningar: teoretisk översikt [Acquired language and communication disorders: theoretical overview]. In: Grundbok i logopedi (Eds. L. Hartelius, K. Johansson, M. Levlin, E. Schalling, & M. Södersten), pp. 231-240. Studentlitteratur 2024.

    Editorial Board:

    Aphasiology

Research

  • My primary research area focuses on speech and language function in acquired brain disorders, including dementia and stroke. Current projects investigate potential language markers of neurodegenerative conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease and frontotemporal dementia. Recent work has examined the progression of apraxia of speech following stroke, as well as patient‑reported outcome measures (PROMs) in dysphagia (eating and swallowing difficulties).

    Another area of interest is medical education, with current themes exploring potential relationships between perceptions of clinical learning environments and quality of life.

Teaching

  • Programme director, Speech and Language Pathology Programme, 2016-2021

    Member of the Departmental Education Committee, CLINTEC (2016-)
     
    Member of the Programme Board, Division of Speech and Language Pathology, CLINTEC

    Director of studies, Semester 5 and 6, Speech and Language Pathology Programme

    Course director and examiner for:

    • Professional Development 5
    • Medicine 5: Geriatrics, Neurology and Rehabilitation Medicine
    • Professional Development 6
    • Cognitive- and Neuropsychology 2
    • Speech and Language Disorders in Adults
    • Independent Study in Speech and Language Pathology

    Supervisor in the following courses:

    • Degree Project in Speech and Language Pathology
    • Degree Project for Master's Degree (120 credits) in Speech and Language Pathology

Articles

All other publications

Grants

Employments

  • Professor/Speech and Language Pathologist, Department of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology, Karolinska Institutet, 2023-

Degrees and Education

  • Docent, Karolinska Institutet, 2013
  • Doctor Of Philosophy, Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, Karolinska Institutet, 2008

Supervision

  • Supervision to doctoral degree

    • Martin Cederlöf, Risks, correlates and consequences of the extended psychosis phenotype., 2016
    • Ann Malmenholt, Exploring childhood apraxia of speech: speech and language profiles in 5-year-olds with suspected apraxia of speech or cleft palate
    • Andrea Strandberg, Gaze into literacy: the potential of eye movement analysis for assessing children's word reading skills in ecological contexts
    • Joana Kristensson, Word-finding difficulties in left hemisphere stroke, multiple sclerosis and Parkinson’s disease – differences in symptom occurrence and effects of anomia treatment
    • Helena Hybbinette, Diagnosis and recovery patterns in patients with apraxia of speech after stroke
    • Monica Blom Johansson, Aphasia and Communication in Everyday Life: Experiences of persons with aphasia, significant others, and speech-language pathologists
    • Raffaella Crinelli, When I show the Beatles then you say: “Ramones!”: imaging semantic memory in Alzheimer’s Disease and Semantic Dementia

Thesis evaluation

  • Malin Dahlby Skoog, Examination board member of doctoral thesis, Karolinska Institutet, 2026
  • Jenny Holmberg, Examination board member of doctoral thesis, Umeå University, 2025
  • Inga-Lena Johansson, Examination board member of doctoral thesis, Linköping University, 2024
  • Angelina Grönberg, Opponent, Lund University, 2022
  • Sophia Lindeberg, Examination board member of doctoral thesis, Linköping University, 2021
  • Emilia Carlsson, Examination board member of doctoral thesis, University of Gothenburg, 2019
  • Patricia Hägglund, Opponent, Umeå University, 2019
  • Jill Nyberg, Examination board member of doctoral thesis, Karolinska Institutet, 2016
  • Ketty Holmström, Examination board member of doctoral thesis, Lund University, 2015
  • Ann Nordberg, Examination board member of doctoral thesis, University of Gothenburg, 2015
  • Ulrika Löfkvist, Examination board member of doctoral thesis, Karolinska Institutet, 2014

Editorial work

  • APHASIOLOGY, Editorial board member, 2026

Other expert reviewer/evaluation assignment

  • Expert reviewer in appointments of academic positions, Professor of speech-language pathology, Åbo Akademi University, 2025-2025
  • Other evaluation assignments, Chairperson for external evaluation board, Speech-Language Pathology Programme, University of Gothenburg, University of Gothenburg, 2022-2023

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