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Biosketch
CV - Anders Ekbom
Personal Date of birth: December 19, 1947
Place of birth: Stockholm, Sweden
Citizenship: Swedish
Work address: Unit of Clinical Epidemiology, Dept of Medicine, Karolinska
Hospital, Stockholm, SE-171 76 Sweden
Education 1974 M.B., Medicine, Lund University
1978 M.D., Medicine, Uppsala University
1990 Ph.D., Surgery, Uppsala University
Certification 1984 Board Certificate in Surgery, National Board of
Health and Welfare
Research and summary of professional experience
1978-1980 Intern, County Hospital, Sala
1980-1984 Resident in Surgery, County Hospital, Eskilstuna
1984 Board Certificate in General Surgery
1984-1996 Senior registrar, assistant professor, associate
professor of surgery, University Hospital, Uppsala
1988-1989 Visiting scientist, Center for Disease Control, Atlanta, USA
1991-1997 Research Fellow, Swedish Cancer Society
1993-1994 Visiting lecturer, Department of Epidemiology,
School of Public Health, Harvard Univ, Boston, USA
1994-2002 Adjunct Associate Professor of Epidemiology,
Department of Epidemiology, School of Public
Health, Harvard University, Boston, USA
1991-June 30 1997 Associate professor, Department of Cancer
Epidemiology, University Hospital, Uppsala
July 1 1997 - Feb 1999 Associate professor, Department of Medical
Epidemiology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm
March 1999 - Dec 1999 Professor, Department of Medical Epidemiology,
Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm
January 2000- Professor, Department of Medicine, Karolinska
Institutet/Karol University Hospital, Stockholm
2002-2007 Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology, Department of
Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Harvard
University, Boston, USA
Honours 1991 Prize for best doctoral thesis at the Medical Faculty in Uppsala 1990
1992 Award for excellence in research, Crohn Colitis
Foundation of America
1992 Benzelius-reward, Royal Science-Society, Uppsala
Committees 1985-1987 Chairman of the Swedish Medical Association,
Uppsala County Branch
1989-1994 Chairman of the Swedish Medical Association,
Uppsala County Branch
1990- Member of the Steering Committee of the University
Physicians, Swedish Medical Association
1996 Member of Committee on Epidemiological and
Clinical Oncology, Scientific Board, Swedish Cancer
Society
1997-2000 Vice chairman of Committee on Epidemiological and Clinical Oncology, Scientific Board, Swedish Cancer Society
1997-2003 Member of the Scientific Board, Swedish Cancer
Society
2000-2003 Chairman of Committee on Epidemiological and
Clinical Oncology,
Scientific Board, Swedish Cancer Society
2001- Member of the Swedish National Chemicals
Inspectorate Expert Group on Cancer
2003- Principal Representative for the Swedish Medical
Association in the Swedish Cancer Society
2007- Chairman Swedish Research Council Committee for Strategic Grants
Editorial Board Memberships
1995- Inflammatory Bowel Disease
1996- Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology
1999- International Journal of Colorectal Diseases
2001- Annals of Cancer Research and Therapy
2003- European Journal of Epidemiology
Editor
2006- Journal of Internal Medicine
Completed dissertations as main tutor
Tryggvi Stefánsson, ”Diverticulitis of the sigmoid colon”, December 1994
Mats Lambe, ”Pregnancy and breast cancer”, December 1995
Maria Rosaria Galanti, ”Epidemiologic studies on the etiology of differentiated, non-medullary thyroid carcinom”, May 1996
Björn Moum, ”Epidemiology of chronic inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) in south-eastern Norway”, June 1997
Britt-Marie Karlson, ”Epidemiologic and diagnostic aspects of pancreatic cancer”, December 1997
Dan Kornfeld (born Pinczowski), “Inflammatory bowel disease - risk factors for adverse outcomes, and preventive measures”, November 1997
Paul Blomqvist, ”On the use of administrative databases in health care analyses”, March 1998
Olof Akre, "Etiological insight into the testicular cancer epidemic", September 1999
Johan Askling, ”Epidemiological studies of host susceptibility in malignant lymphomas and colorectal cancer ”, April 2001
George Dafnis, ” Colonoscopy. Introduction and development, completion rates, complications and cancer detection”, May 2001
Estelle Naumburg (born Norrée), ”Epidemiologic studies in childhood leukemia”, February 2002
Magnus Kaijser, ”Longitudinal studies of prematurity”, March 2002
Gunnar Larfors (born Erlandsson), ”Pregnancy related risk factors for breast cancer”, January 2004
Louise Olsson, “Diagnosis of colorectal cancer”, March 2004
Eva Baecklund, ”Cancer in patients with rheumatoid arthritis”, October 2005
Continuous supervision – main tutor
John Lee,” Hypercalcemia and cancer” disputation planeras 2008
Anna-Karin Eriksson, ”Vem får diabetes” disputation planeras 2009
Completed supervision – co-tutor
Johanna Adami, ”Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma: a search for causes”, December 1997
Urban Ösby, ”Mortality in schizophrenia and affective disorder”, December 2000
Britt Clausson, ”Exposures of importance for pregnancy outcomes”, December 2000
Magdalena Lagerlund, ”Factors affecting attendance at population-based mammography screening”, February 2002
Stephan Wilbrand, ”Dyputren’s contracture: clinik and etiology”, April 2002
Lorenzo Richiardi, ”New evidence on germ-cell testicular cancer aetiology ”, January 2004
Lena Björnådal, ” Long-term outcome of patients with rheumatoid arthritis and systemic lupus erythematosus with special reference to cardiovascular disease”, February 2004
Ann Knight, “Wegeners granulomatosis”, 2007
Continuous supervision – co-tutor
Johan Reutfors, Risk factors for suicide, disputation planeras 2009
Max Bell, Prognostic factors in intensive care, disputation planeras 2008
Published papers: Approximately 340.
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