Personal information

Name Sundström, Johan

Birth date 1971-03-17

IDs ORCID 0000-0003-2247-8454; ResearcherID IAP-6197-2023; Scopus 56702246400

Web uu.se/en/department/medical-sciences/research/research-groups/clinical-epidemiology; uu.se/awi; linkedin.com/in/drsundstrom

Publications https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/1HmJPhYQKjmAV6/bibliography/public/

Education

2018-05-28 Specialist in Cardiology, Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare

2012-01-02 Specialist in Internal Medicine, Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare

2005-12-15 Associate Professor of Cardiovascular Epidemiology, Uppsala University, Sweden

2004-07-01 Medical License, Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare

2001-02-16 Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Medical Faculty, Uppsala University, Sweden

1997-06-13 Medical Degree (MD), Karolinska Institutet, Sweden

Current employment

2015-04-01 Professor of Epidemiology, Department of Medical Sciences, Uppsala University

2025-01-01 Consultant in Cardiology, Department of Cardiology, Uppsala University Hospital

2023-09-04 Honorary Professor, The George Institute for Global Health, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Previous employment

2019-2023 Conjoint Professor, The George Institute for Global Health, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

2014–2018 Scientific Director, Uppsala Clinical Research Center

2014–2015 Senior Lecturer in Epidemiology, Uppsala University

2018–2024 Cardiologist, Department of Cardiology, Uppsala University Hospital

2012–2018 Fellow, Department of Cardiology, Uppsala University Hospital

2004–2012 Resident, Department of Emergency Medicine, Uppsala University Hospital

2001–2004 Intern, Enköping Hospital/Uppsala University Hospital

1997–2001 Physician, Clinic for Obesity and Metabolic Diseases, Uppsala University Hospital

Fellowships

2012–2013 Visiting Professorial Fellow, The George Institute for Global Health, Sydney University, Sydney, Australia

2002–2003 Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, The Framingham Heart Study, Boston University, MA, USA

Supervision of graduate students and postdoctoral fellows

Principal supervisor for 9 ongoing PhD theses. Supervisor of 15 completed PhD theses; principal supervisor of 5 (Robert Bodén [dissertation 2010-03-26], Kasper Andersen [2014-03-21], Thomas Cars [2016-11-19], Gabriel Arefalk [2018-05-09], Yi-Ting Lin [2021-05-11]); co-supervisor of 10 (Erik Ingelsson [dissertation 2005-10-01], Christina Ström-Möller [2006-12-08], Martin Wohlin [2008-05-09], Bernice Wiberg [2010-05-11], Johan Sundelöf [2011-01-20], Susann Järhult [2010-12-15], Anna Alassaad [2014-12-11], Christoph Nowak [2017-05-22], Pål Hasvold [2018-02-13], Magnus Olsson [2026-02-13]). Mentored 11 post-docs; 9 part-time; 2 full-time (Per Lytsy [2012-2014], Jordan Loader [2020-2021]), and 3 ongoing.

Teaching activities

Responsible for the internal medicine education at Uppsala University Medical School. Responsible for development of artificial intelligence education, digital health education, evidence-based medicine education, and the master’s thesis course for medical students at Uppsala University Medical School. Past leader and developer of research methods courses compulsory for all PhD students at Uppsala University Medical Faculty. Regular supervisor in masters’ theses. Prior clinical assistant in clinical propedeutics. Nominated for the pedagogic award Munken, 2007. Founder of multiple seminar series for PhD students at the Department of Medical Sciences. Author of several medical textbook chapters, and one textbook (Handbok i biomedicinsk forskning, Liber förlag, ISBN 47-11399-6). Co-organizer of board-certified clinical specialist courses.

Scientific meeting activities

Organiser of multiple scientific meetings within the Swedish Epidemiological Society, EpiHealth, Cohorts.se, the Health Technology Assessment network, and Uppsala University. Invited speaker to several internationally established conferences and international advanced schools, including the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Congress, the ESC Preventive Cardiology Congress, the European Public Health Conference, the European Society of Hypertension Summer School, the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions, and the Nordic University Research Course in Hypertension and Cardiovascular Disease.

Institutional responsibilities

2020– Founder and director of the Anders Wiklöf Institute for Heart Research, Uppsala University

2011– Board member, Department of Medical Sciences, Uppsala University

2015–2017 Board member of the Disciplinary Domain of Medicine and Pharmacy, Uppsala University

2014–2017 Deputy Head of the Department of Medical Sciences, Uppsala University

2011–2016 Chairman of the Board (Inspektor) of the College Västmanlands-Dala Nation at Uppsala University

2009–2011 Research Committee member, Department of Medical Sciences, Uppsala University

Commissions of trust and reviewing activities

2024– Board member of the Swedish Research Council's Committee for Clinical Therapy Research

2024– Board member of the Digital Health group, Swedish Society of Cardiology

2023– Scientific advisor to the French General Secretariat for Investment and the ministries of Health and Prevention and Research, France

2022– Initiator and member of National Working Group for hypertension in the National system for knowledge-driven management within Swedish healthcare

2020– Advisory board member for Cochrane Sweden

2011– Member of the regional health care advisory board for pharmaceutical treatment of hypertension

2011– Lead author of regional health care guidelines for the treatment of hypertension

2010– Scientific reviewer for the Ireland Health Research Board, the Danish Council for Independent Research, and the European Society of Cardiology

2017-2024 Head of the Health Technology Assessment unit at Region Uppsala

2007–2012 Chairman of the Board for the research foundation The Geriatric Fund

Examining committee member at multiple dissertations, and opponent at dissertations in Sweden, Norway, and Finland. Initiator and PI of the Swedish Cohort Consortium (Cohorts.se) and international myocardial infarction cohort consortium MIMI. Investigator in several randomized clinical trials; among those, initiator and PI of PHYSIC (NCT02774460); initiator and PI of U-SCREEN; initiator and PI of U-SCREEN-HF (NCT06940544); initiator and co-PI of SMARTEST (NCT03982381); national coordinator for APOLLO (NCT01259297). Steering committee member for large epidemiological studies SCAPIS (past PI for Uppsala), ULSAM, ROSE, ARBACE, ANDiU, Y2K (PI) and EpiHealth, and clinical trials REDUCe (NCT03278509) and START (NCT05345327).