Pontus Hedberg

Pontus Hedberg

Postdoctoral Researcher
Visiting address: I73, Karolinska Universitetssjukhuset Huddinge, 14186 Stockholm
Postal address: H7 Medicin, Huddinge, H7 Infektion och Hud Sönnerborg, 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

  • Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Medicine, Huddinge, Karolinska Institutet, 2023-2024

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 own accepted 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 own accepted 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 own accepted 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 own accepted 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 own accepted 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 own accepted 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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