Ulf de Faire

Shortened Curriculum Vitae for Ulf de Faire

Education/Degrees

• 1969  MD Uppsala University
• 1974  PhD Karolinska Institutet (KI), Title: Ischemic Heart Disease in Death Discordant Twins
• 1974  Specialist in Internal medicine and Cardiology
• 1977  Associate professor (docent) Internal Medicine, KI
• 1994  Professor of Epidemiology (cardiovascular), KI

Previous positions

• 1970 - 1976   Resident in Internal Medicine and Cardiology, Serafimer Hospital, KI.
• 1981 - 1987   Associate Professor, Dept. of Medicine, Danderyd Hospital, KI.
• 1985 - 1987  Vice Dean, Dept. of Medicine, Danderyd Hospital, KI.
• 1987 - 1993   Chairman, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Karolinska Hospital, KI.
• 1994 - 2015   Professor Division of Cardiovascular epidemiology, IMM, KI. and Senior consultant Department of Cardiology, Karolinska Hospital including PI of one of four FoUU units at Department of Cardiology.
• 2015-2021   Senior Professor at IMM/KI.

Current position

2022 on Professor emeritus at IMM, KI.

Graduate student’s supervisor (names and current positions within parentheses)      

• Anders Hamsten, PhD (1986), KI ( Professor, President at KI, 2013-2016)
• Magnus von Arbin, PhD (1989), KI (Docent, KI, senior consultant, DS ) within
• Klas-Göran Ericsson, PhD (1992), KI (Docent, Head Physician Danderyd Hosp.)
• Marjorie Marenberg, PhD (1992), KI (MD, Physician, Philadelphia)
• Carola Lemne, PhD (1994), KI (CEO, Svenskt Näringsliv, 2013- )
• Mai-Lis Hellenius, PhD (1995), KI ( Professor, KI)
• Yuling Hong, PhD (1997), KI (Adj. Professor, EMORY, USA)
• Gunilla Bolinder, PhD (1997), KI (Docent, KI, senior consultant, KS)
• Anna Bennet, PhD (2003), KI (Docent, KI)
• Peter Lindgren, PhD (2005), KI (Adj Professor CSO, IVBAR)
• Karin Leander, PhD (2005), KI (Docent, KI)
• Slobodan Zdravkovic, PhD (2006), KI (Docent, Malmö/Lund)

Co-supervisor: 18 times (names not given)

Supervisor to Marie Curie postgraduate research trainees within the EUOROGENDIS.

• Dr Marel van Maarle, Netherlands (2002-2003)
• Dr Bruna Gigante, Italy (2004-2005).

Supervisor to 9 post-docs (1986-2016).

Faculty opponent at Ph.D dissertations: In total 16 times, first time at University of Göteborg in 1978 regarding a Ph.D by Robert Bergstrand on "Myocardial infarction among men below the age of 40", and latest in 2023 at University of Aalborg, Denmark regarding a Ph.D by Ameli Helme Simoni regarding “Time trends in incidence, treatment and clinical outcomes according to socioeconomic position in patients with acute coronary syndrome”. In total 8 times at Göteborg, 2 at Lund/Malmö, 1 at Uppsala, 2 at Umeå and 1 at Oslo University.

External research grants as project leader (main applicant) 

Over the years received large grants from, among others:

• The Swedish Research Council (VR)
• The Swedish Heart & Lung Foundation
• The Wallenberg Foundation
• Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research
• ALF/the Stockholm County Council
• EU
• and others regarding genetics of coronary heart disease, biomarkers for atherosclerosis and cardiovascular diseases etc

Research Activities

Within cardiovascular medicine and cardiology focusing on risk factors, biomarkers, genetics, atherosclerosis, treatment of hypertension and dyslipidaemias, cardiovascular prevention.

Initiated several epidemiological largescale studies incl. case-control studies on young male post myocardial infarction patients and controls (<45 years ), the Stockholm Heart Epidemiological Program ( SHEEP ) incl. over 2000 male and female post MI patients 45-70 years of age identified 1992-94 and randomly chosen controls, borderline hypertensives and controls and prospective cohort studies like the 60 year old males and females from Stockholm County with 4200 subjects now followed for cardiovascular events since 1998-99 and one of three initiators of SCAPIS – the Swedish CArdioPulmonary bioimage Study including about 30 000 men and women in Sweden, 50 – 64 years old, randomly selected from 6 university sites. 

Others 

• Co-PI (invited) for two Centres of Excellence at KI; the Strategic Support to Epidemiologic Research at KI (2010-2015) (from VR) and Thematic centre for Cardiovascular Research, (2010-2015), (from Stockholm County Council and KI).

• Member of SAB  for the Swedish Cardiopulmonary imaging Study(SCAPIS).
• Associate Editor Arterioscl&Vasc Biol (ATVB) 2002-2005.
• Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Internal Medicine (2006-2021), Senior adviser 2002.
• International. Evaluator of Cardiovascular & Metabolic Research at Turku University Finland, 2012 and at Linköping University 2014.
• Remote reviewer ERC Grants, 2017.

International Prize

Received in 2007 Tore Anderson’s international prize in epidemiology awarded at KI for Outstanding Cardiovascular Epidemiological Research.

Publications, citations

Published 549 international peer reviewed articles (see PubMed), many of the original articles were published in journals with high impact factors (>110 with IF >10). About 68 000 citations with a H-index of 108 according to KI Library and ISI Web of Science per of Oct 1th 2024. AD citation index and google scholar provide higher indeces, According to Clarivate Analytics classified as a highly cited  researcher in 2018 and ranked in the top 1% by citations from Web of Science.

Supervision to doctoral degree

• Anna Ringborg, Register-based studies of epidemiology and health care costs in type 2 diabetes., 2011