Ulrika Ådén

Ulrika Ådén

Professor/Senior Physician | Docent
Telephone: +46852482870
Visiting address: BioMedicum A4, Solnavägen 9, 17165 Solna
Postal address: K6 Kvinnors och barns hälsa, K6 NOGRH Ådén, 171 77 Stockholm
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About me

  • .Professor of Neonatology at the Department of Women's and Children's Health Karolinska Institutet since 2016.

    Joana Cocozza professorship in Pediatrics, LiU since 2022

Research

  • One of the major remaining challenges in caring for critically ill newborns is preventing and treating brain injury and prevent adverse neurodevelopmental outcomes. The ultimate goals of our research program are to 1/ build up systematical assessment of outcomes after altered neonatal care strategies and interventions and to 2/ test new interventions to prevent brain injury and ameliorate outcomes in newborns at high risk of neurodevelopmental impairments.

Teaching

  • Ever since I was a PhD student, I have continuosly taken part in teaching at KI. In particular, I have taught

    -basic pharmacology for medical students and other professions and for PhD students 

  • -pediatrics for medical students and PhD students 

  • We give our own PhD course in "Early brain development"

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Grants

Employments

  • Joana professor, Linköping University Hospital, 2022-
  • Professor/Senior Physician, Department of Women's and Children's Health, Karolinska Institutet, 2016-

Degrees and Education

  • Docent, Karolinska Institutet, 2007
  • Doctor Of Philosophy, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet, 2001
  • University Medical Degree, Karolinska Institutet, 1996

Leadership and responsibility assignments

  • Chair of research committee Women and children's health, Vetenskapsrådet chair of committee MH 07, Swedish Research Council, 2024-
  • President of the Swedish Paediatric Society, Swedish Paediatric Society, Swedish Paediatric Society, 2022-2024
  • Research team leader, neonatology unit, Women's and Children's health, Karolinska Institutet, 2016-

Editorial work

  • Adjunct editor Acta Paediatrica, Associate editor, 2016-2022

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