Tomas Forslund

Tomas Forslund

Affiliated to Research
Visiting address: Alfred Nobels Allé 23, 14183 Huddinge
Postal address: H1 Neurobiologi, vårdvetenskap och samhälle, H1 Allmänmedicin och primärvård, 171 77 Stockholm
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About me

  • I am a specialist in family medicine with 20 years of broad clinical experience encompassing cardiology, internal medicine, oncology, general practice and home care.

    I hold an MD and a PhD in Pharmacoepidemiology from Karolinska Institutet. Since 2014 I have a position as Medical Advisor to the Stockholm Region.

    I am a self taught programmer and the author of ~25 peer reviewed academic papers performing observational research in large datasets

Research

  • How do you...Health care delivery
    • improve adoption to new guidelines?
    • balance compliance to guidelines with a patient centric view?
    • adapt guidelines to deal with multimorbidity and polypharmacy?
    • combine digital and physical care in an efficient and safe way?
     
    Algorithm based medicine
    • go from manual management of chronic conditions to automatically triggering the algorithms from recent guidelines?
    • efficiently communicate prescribed measurements, blood test and referrals with the patients?
    • automate patient specific educational disease and treatment information?
    • provide patient specific and relevant risk scoring and decisions supports?
    • automate generation of treatment plans/patient contracts?

Articles

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Grants

  • Investigation of chronic coronary artery disease in outpatient care (primary care and specialized outpatient care).
    Region Stockholm
  • Investigation of chronic coronary artery disease in outpatient care (primary care and specialized outpatient care)
    Region Stockholm
  • Randomized controlled trial evaluating the implementation of a person-centered and integrated care pathway for hypertension.
    Region Stockholm
  • Investigation of chronic coronary artery disease in outpatient care (primary care and specialized outpatient care)
    Karolinska Institutet
    Co-funding of a PhD student in general practice within Region Stockholm, 2025.

Employments

  • Affiliated to Research, Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, Karolinska Institutet, 2024-2027

Degrees and Education

  • Degree Of Doctor Of Philosophy, Department of Medicine, Solna, Karolinska Institutet, 2017
  • University Medical Degree, Karolinska Institutet, 2002

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