Rune Brautaset

Rune Brautaset

Professor
Telephone: +46852482543
Visiting address: Eye Center of Excellence Avd Ögon & Syn, Eugeniavägen 12, 17164 Solna
Postal address: K8 Klinisk neurovetenskap, K8 Ögon och Syn Brautaset, 171 77 Stockholm
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About me

  • I am a professor of optometry and have been a teacher at KI since 2000. During these years, I have combined clinical research with a deep commitment to education. For my commitment to education, I was awarded KI's Pedagogical Prize in 2015.

    I have also had other central education-related assignments at KI, including the development of criteria for degree projects, work on educational plans for the medical program, as well as investigations that resulted in UoL and central financing of specially equipped educational facilities.

    Assignments within KI:

    2004-2016     Program director for Optometry (PD)

    2004-2018     Head of Unit of optometry

    2016-2023     Departmental head of higher education (GUA)

    2017-2018     Board member of university board for higher Education (Utbildningsstyrelsen)

    2017-2018     Chairperson for the working committee at KI evaluating how to organize pedagogical training and development within KI, resulting in the establishment of UoL

    2017-2019     Member of the KI steering group for Executive education

    2018 -            Head of division for Eye and vision

    2018 -            Member of the KI Nomination Committee of the Nomination Assembly

    2019 -            KI chairperson of the KI-SLL FoUU Committee for St. Erik Eye Hospital

    2019 -            Board member Committee for higher education (Kommittén för utbildning)

    2020 - 2025   Vice chair of education (Vice ordförande Kommittén för utbildning)

    2021 -            Member of the recruitment board at KI

    2025/12 -      Acting Academic vice president for education (Tf Vicerektor för utbildning)

Research

  • My research career began with research on binocular vision ("why do we see a picture with two eyes"). I was the first optometrist with a PhD working at a Swedish university and I have thus, as head of unit, been involved in building up the optometric research that currently exists at KI. I am head of research group Brautaset within the department. In total, I have supervised 5 doctoral students to their PhD. My research today focus on the structure and function of the eye. Some of my latest publications are below.

Teaching

  • I have taken 22.5 credits of higher education pedagogical courses. In addition to working with the optometry programs, I have been involved in LUT I and II (the projects around the Medical Program's current education plan), headed the projected that led to the establishment of UoL (KI's pedagogical unit starting 2019), been on the on the steering groups for CANVAS, Time Edit and commissioned education. In addition to working with educations at KI, I have been involved in ECOO (European Council of Optometry and Optics) where I had the main responsibility for developing the European common education plan that is the basis for the harmonization of higher education for optometry in Europe.

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Employments

  • Professor, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, 2021-

Degrees and Education

  • Docent, Karolinska Institutet, 2009

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