Indre Bileviciute Ljungar

My role at KI: teaching, education and clinically-based research. I am associated professor in physical and rehabilitation medicine since 2012,
affiliated to dept. of Clinical Sciences at Karolinska Institutet (KI), have been involved in teaching and research at KI since 1991. During last year I
am involved in teaching and education in pain medicine as well as in conducting research in physical and rehabilitation medicine for different pain condition, including postCOVID-19 condition. I am educated as medical doctor and working as a senior consultant in pain and physical and rehabilitation medicine at dept. of Rehabilitation Medicine, Stockholm. Beside my clinical work, together with multimodal team I am developing the use of ICF-based assessments and rehabilitation models for patients with chronic pain,  including postCOVID-19 condition. ICF= International Classification of Functioning and Disability, a WHO framework to assess functioning,  participation, disability and environmental factors.
Chair of EFIC`s educational committee 2023 - (https://europeanpainfederation.eu/organisation/executive-board/)
EDPM Deputy Director, EFIC, 2022-
Vice-president of Lithuanian Pain Society 2022-
Academic Editor for Journal of Clinical Medicine, Section Clinical
Rehabilitation 2022-
Basic education for medical doctor at Tartu University, medicine studies, Tartu, Estonia, 1985-1991. 
PhD-studies at dept. of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, 1991-1998.
Clinical medical education at Karolinska University Hospital and Danderyd University Hospital, specialist 
in rehabilitation medicine and pain, Stockholm, Sweden, 2001-2013.
EDPM (European Diploma in Pan Medicine), 2019, Bryssels Belgium.

My research interests: chronic pain, fatigue, postCOVID-19 condition, cognitive functioning, biomarkers,  sleep disorders, digitalisation in physical and rehabilitation medicine. The latest project deals with internet-based multimodal rehabilitation for postCOVID-19 sufferers in Sweden and with postCOVID-19 cohort in Lithuanian population in collaboration with Lithuanian University of Health Sciences (LSMU) in Kaunas. During the last years I was also involved in research project on internet-based psychodynamic therapy in somatic syndrome disorder (responsible scientist assoc. prof. Robert Johansson).

Preclinical teaching at dept. iof Physiology and Pharmacology, KI,  1992-1999.
Clinical courses in pain, rehabilitation medicine and ICF for medical students at KI 2005-2016.
Teaching course on human physiology, KI, 2011. 
Professional education in insurance medicine by internet-based course for
certified and ST-doctors during 2013, 2014, 2016 and 2017.
Pain educationfor for Swedish ST-doctors (residents) 2020-2025 (one week course, several courses).

Pain education at Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Kaunas, Lithuania, 2021 and 2023 (one week course).