Elizabeth Arkema

I am an epidemiologist with a doctoral degree in epidemiology from Harvard School of Public Health and postdoctoral training in chronic disease epidemiology at Karolinska Institutet. I received Docent in Epidemiology in 2018. My research focuses on the causes and consequences of chronic inflammatory diseases, including sarcoidosis and systemic lupus erythematosus, among others. My work aims to leverage the power of Swedish population-based registers and epidemiological methods to conduct large-scale investigations of risk factors and outcomes associated with these diseases. I lead a team of students and researchers who work together to find evidence-based answers to etiological and clinical questions using epidemiological and biostatistical methods. 

Sarcoidosis
I am currently the principal investigator of a multi-register data linkage project on sarcoidosis.

Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
My research focuses on quantifying risks of comorbidities associated with lupus and understanding the scope of the burden of disease. Several projects investigate risk factors for lupus.