Pontus Hedberg

Pontus Hedberg

Affiliated to Research
Visiting address: ANA Futura Laboratory, Alfred Nobels väg 8, 14152 Huddninge
Postal address: H7 Medicin, Huddinge, H7 CIM-CID Sönnerborg van de Klundert, 171 77 Stockholm
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About me

  • I am a medical doctor by training, currently being a postdoc in Professor Anders Sönnerborg’s research group at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden. My research focuses on severe outcomes during and beyond the acute SARS-CoV-2 infection. My PhD focused on epidemiological comparisons of COVID-19 with other respiratory viruses. Prior to this, I worked on elucidating the effect of human host factors on P. falciparum rosetting, with a special reference to human blood group antigens and the histo-blood group ABO system.

Research

  • All aspects of infectious disease epidemiology, primarily related to epidemic and pandemic viral infections.

Teaching

  • Teaching activities related to epidemiology, electronic health record systems, and parasitology. These teaching activities have included a wide range of target groups, including students in Medicine, Biomedicine, Opticians, Public health students, PhD-students and Postdoctoral researchers.

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Grants

  • Clinical Scientist Training Programme

Employments

  • Affiliated to Research, Department of Medicine, Huddinge, Karolinska Institutet, 2025-2028
  • Affiliated to Research, Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, 2025-2028
  • Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Medicine, Huddinge, Karolinska Institutet, 2023-2025

Degrees and Education

  • Degree Of Doctor Of Philosophy, Department of Medicine, Solna, Karolinska Institutet, 2022
  • Degree Of Master Of Science In Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, 2017

Conference/event participation

  • Oral presenter of submitted abstract, AREVIR 2022, The Hospitalized Patients Cohort And How Karolinska Institutet Collects Register-data - Post COVID-19 condition as an example, 2022
  • Invited speaker, Society of Critical Care Medicine Journal Club Webcast, Ventilator-Associated Lower Respiratory Tract Bacterial Infections in COVID-19 Compared With Non-COVID-19 Patients, 2022
  • Oral presenter of submitted abstract, European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases 2022, Post COVID-19 condition diagnosis Occurrence, associated characteristics and healthcare use by severity of acute infection, 2022
  • Oral presenter of submitted abstract, State of the art COVID-19 2022, One-year mortality and hospital-free days in COVID-19 versus non-COVID-19 critical illness, 2022
  • Oral presenter of submitted abstract, State of the art COVID-19 2021, Riskfaktorer för SARS-CoV-2 reinfektion: En nested fall-kontroll studie i Stockholms region, 2021
  • Poster presenter of submitted abstract, State of the art COVID-19 2020, Patientkaraktäristika, klinisk presentation och kliniska utfall för patienter med COVID-19 i jämförelse med andra respiratoriska virus, 2020
  • Poster presenter of submitted abstract, Molecular Approaches to Malaria Conference (MAM) 2020, Elucidating the effect of the ABO system on Plasmodium falciparum rosetting, with special reference to weak blood group A expression, 2020

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