Monika Grudzinska Pechhacker
Anknuten till Forskning
E-postadress: monika.grudzinska.pechhacker@ki.se
Besöksadress: Eye Center of Excellence Avd Ögon & Syn, Eugeniavägen 12, 17164 Solna
Postadress: K8 Klinisk neurovetenskap, K8 Ögon och Syn, 171 77 Stockholm
Om mig
- Staff ophthalmologist, MD PhD FEBO, Expertise in Ocular genetics and Clinical
Visual Electrophysiology, PhD in Experimental medicine
2018-2019 Research Grant from Bernadottes’ Research Foundation for Eye
Children Care - 2018 Research Grant from SLS (Swedish Society of Medicine)
2013 Edwin Jordan Stiftelse Research Grant- 2012-2013 Research Grant,
Kronprinsessan Margaretas Foundation for Visually Handicapped, Sweden - 2012
Alcon Research and Education Grant for residents in ophthalmology - 2012 Grant
from Carmen and Bertil Regners Foundation for research in ophthalmology - 2012
Lars Hiertas Minne Stipendium - 2012, 2014, 2016 Karin Sandqvist Research
Grants - 2008, 2012, 2013 Research Grant, Karolinska Institutet
- 2007-2010 PhD
Research grants founded by Heart and Lung Foundation, Sweden
•2019-2020 fellowship/postdoc in Ocular Genetics and Electrophysiology,
University of Toronto, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada
•2018 training in Electrophysiology, Moorfields Eye Hospital, London, UK
•2015 fellow of the European Board of Ophthalmology, FEBO (specialist in
ophthalmology)
•2013 fellowship, Dept. of Ophthalmology, Harkness Eye Institute, Columbia
University Medical Center, New York, US
•2012 fellowship, Dept. of Ophthalmology, AKH, Vienna, Austria
•2006 - 2011 Doctorate education (PhD), Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm,
Sweden
•2008-2009 - fellowship Children Surgery and Emergency, Astrid Lindgren
Children Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
•2004 - M.D. Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
Forskningsbeskrivning
- Dr. Grudzinska Pechhacker has been staff ophthalmologist since 2016. Her
career focuses on inherited eye disorders with emphasis on inherited retinal
conditions. She is passionately dedicated to improve diagnostics and
management strategies for patients with genetic eye disorders. She was
further trained in clinical visual electrophysiology (Moorfields Eye
Hospital, UK) and recently underwent one year structured fellowship in Ocular
Genetics and Electrophysiology under supervision of Prof. Elise Heon and Dr.
Ajoy Vincent at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) and University of
Toronto, Canada. Dr. Grudzinska Pechhacker's goal is to establish a program
providing a comprehensive assessment, genetic testing and counseling of
patients affected with inherited eye disorders with focus on conditions when
clinical genetic testing did not identify the disease-causing variant(s).
Undervisning
- •2020 - PhD mentor, Karolinska Institutet
•2019-2020 teaching in genetic eye disease, pediatric ophthalmology and
electrophysiology for residents, fellows, clinical geneticists and genetic
counselors, visiting observers at the Department of Ophthalmology of Visual
Sciences, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada
•2017-2019 mentor for resident in ophthalmology, St. Erik Eye Hospital
•2016-2019 clinical supervisor for MD students and residents in
ophthalmology, St. Erik Eye Hospital
•2012-2015 PhD mentor, Scripps Research Institute, University of
California, La Jolla, San Francisco, US
•2012-2014 co-supervision of PhD student, Karolinska Institutet
•2012 teaching for MD students in ophthalmology (full-time), St. Erik Eye
Hospital/Karolinska Institutet
•2011 clinical supervisor for MD student (ophthalmology), Erasmus Exchange
program
•2008 series of research seminars in stem cell biology, Center for
Molecular Medicine, KI
•2009 clinical supervisor for MD students, KI (Children surgery and
emergency)
•2008/2009 - research supervisor for two students in Biomedicine Program,
KI and MD student, KI
Artiklar
- Article: OPHTHALMIC GENETICS. 2024;45(1):95-102
- Article: INVESTIGATIVE OPHTHALMOLOGY AND VISUAL SCIENCE. 2021;62(15):26
- Article: GENES. 2021;12(3):330
- Article: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF MEDICAL GENETICS. 2020;63(11):104037
- Article: OPHTHALMIC GENETICS. 2020;41(5):457-464
- Article: TRANSPLANTATION PROCEEDINGS. 2017;49(6):1467-1476
- Article: ARTERIOSCLEROSIS, THROMBOSIS, AND VASCULAR BIOLOGY. 2013;33(6):1271-1279
- Article: HERPESVIRIDAE. 2010;1(1):7
- Article: PLOS ONE. 2009;4(1):e4187
Alla övriga publikationer
- Review: ACTA OPHTHALMOLOGICA. 2014;92(1):21-26
- Thesis / dissertation: 2011
- Meeting abstract: ATHEROSCLEROSIS SUPPLEMENTS. 2006;7(3):289-290
Anställningar
- Anknuten till Forskning, Klinisk neurovetenskap, Karolinska Institutet, 2023-2026
Examina och utbildning
- Medicine Doktorsexamen, Institutionen för medicin, Solna, Karolinska Institutet, 2011