Mikael Norman

Mikael Norman

Professor

Mikael Norman, professor in pediatrics &amp

neonatal medicine, and co-director of the Swedish Neonatal Quality register (www.snq.se). &#160

Visiting address: Enheten för pediatrik, Novum, Blickagången 6A, 14157 Huddinge
Postal address: H9 Klinisk vetenskap, intervention och teknik, H9 CLINTEC Pediatrik, 141 52 Huddinge
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About me

  • Mikael Norman was born 1957 in Stockholm, Sweden. He graduated as M.D. at Karolinska Institutet in 1982. Since 2008, he is professor in pediatrics & neonatal medicine at Karolinska Institutet. Between 1995 and 2015, he worked - besides being a clinician and researcher - in different administrative positions (head of department) at Karolinska University Hospital. Mikael Norman has supervised 29 PhD-students and published over 280 papers. Presently he works as professor at KI and as co-director for the Swedish Neonatal Quality Register.

    Academic honours and awards:
    - Swedish Society of Medicine: Regnell´s price 2010 for the manuscript: "Hypertension, Diabetes and Obesity: Looming legacies of the Biafran Famine" by authors: Hult M, Tornhammar P, Ueda P, Chima C, Edstedt Bonamy AK, Ozumba B, Norman M.

    - Swedish Society of Medicine: Regnell´s price 2014 for the manuscript: "Cesarean section and hematopoietic stem cell epigenetics in the newborn infants - implications for furture health?" by authors: Almgren M, Schlinzig T, Gomez-Cabrero D, Gunnar A, Sundin M, Johansson S, Norman M, Ekström TJ.

    - Hugo Lagercrantz Award 2024 for "internationally distinguished research on developmental programming and preterm birth."  

Research

  • Research interests:
    - Cardiovascular system in pregnant women, newborn infants and children: its structure and function in health and disease
    - Developmental origins of health and disease
    - Preterm birth: risk factors, interventions and short and long-term outcome
    - Perinatal epidemiology
    - Patient safety and quality of care

    List of published work: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/mikael.norman.1/bibliography/public/

Teaching

  • Mikael Norman is the editor of 3 Swedish textbooks in Pediatrics and Neonatology, and author of 25 book chapters. He lectures at all levels.

    Founder - together with Drs Stefan Johansson, Haresh Kirpalani (USA), Hesham Abdel-Hady (Egypt), Clyde Wright (USA) - of the International Society of Evidence-Based Neonatology (https://ebneo.org/)

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Employments

  • Professor, Department of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology, Karolinska Institutet, 2025-
  • Professor/Senior Physician, Department of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology, Karolinska Institutet, 2008-2025

Degrees and Education

  • Docent, Karolinska Institutet, 1998

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