Ulrika Nygren

Ulrika Nygren

Adjunct Lecturer
Visiting address: Blickagången 9 A, Enheten för logopedi F67, 14186 Stockholm
Postal address: H9 Klinisk vetenskap, intervention och teknik, H9 CLINTEC Logopedi, 141 52 Huddinge
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About me

  • Adjunct university lecturer at the Division of Speech and Language Pathology,
    CLINTEC, Karolinska Institutet (KI) and employed at the Speech and Language
    Pathology, Medical Unit, Karolinska University Hospital as a speech language
    pathologist.
    The main focus of the clinical work is assessment and intervention of
    patients who have voice disorders with functional, organic or neurological
    causes. Since 2005, the work has focused on individuals with gender dysphoria
    who experience voice dysphoria and is offered gender-affirming voice therapy
    as well as women who are bothered by a virilization of the voice.
    Speech and Language Pathology Degree 1989.
    PhD 2014, at KI with the thesis “Effects of increased levels of androgens
    on voice and vocal folds in women with congenital adrenal hyperplasia and
    female-to-male transsexual clients”.

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Grants

  • Swedish Research Council
    1 January 2024 - 31 December 2025
    The global healthcare needs for people with gender dysphoria (GD) has surged, especially among individuals assigned female at birth and the youth population. Numerous systematic reviews, including those by the SBU (Swedish Agency for Health Technology Assessment and Assessment of Social Services), have highlighted knowledge gaps regarding the efficacy and safety of current gender-affirming treatments. The integrity of research on GD-related outcomes has been questioned by inadequate study designs and insufficient sample sizes. There´s a pressing need for rigorous longitudinal studies.The primary objective of this project is to foster a multidisciplinary collaboration to draft a protocol for a national clinical cohort of individuals with GD, encompassing both historical and prospective data collection. We will first establish a multidisciplinary research collaborative network composed of multidisciplinary academics, clinical experts specializing in GD, and patient representatives. This network will form a consensus on a core outcome set. This set will pinpoint outcomes that matter most to both patients and clinicians and guide the work for the design of a protocol for the comprehensive longitudinal cohort. Subsequently, the feasibility of this protocol will be assessed by piloting both data collection phases and hosting focus group discussions with relevant stakeholders to assess the viability and receptivity of the proposed study.

Employments

  • Adjunct Lecturer, Department of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology, Karolinska Institutet, 2017-2026

Degrees and Education

  • Degree Of Doctor Of Philosophy, Department of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology, Karolinska Institutet, 2015

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