Sten Olof Martin Hellström

Number of completed Supervisions as Principal Supervisor: 18

Ongoing Supervisions as Principal Supervisor:  None

Number of Completed Supervisions as co-Supervisor :  12?

Ongoing Supervisions as co-Supervisor:  2

Susanne Gripenberg, leg sjukgymn

Elenor Lundgren, leg audionom, (Umeå Univ)

My engagement in the ear and hearing research focuses on four avenues.

1.To study quality and benefit of audiological rehabilitation for patients with severe-to-profound. The study also aims at investigating the type of audiological rehabilitation received by patients and whether it is necessary to improve rehabilitation efforts, for example, in terms of gender perspective. Other questions regard e.g. which patients are most subjected to mental fatigue and what can be done to rehabilitate them.

2. A managing function for Centrum för Hörsel- och Kommunikationsforskning (CHK) at KI. The main task for CHK is to investigate and find financing support for the clinical hearing and balance reserachers at Karolinska.

3. To further support the development of Scientific Center for Advanced Pediatric and Adult Audiology (SCAPAA). The hearing and vestibular research in particular related to children at Karolinska has an enormous potential as a national and international frontline research area.

4. To study plasminogen (plg), a preinflammatory protein, and its involvement in healing chronic wounds like chronic tympanic membrane perforations. Within 2027 a large clinical trial on healing of diabetic foot ulcers will be started. The project is directed from Umeå University.