Anders Hamsten - Curriculum Vitae#

Professional preparation:

• MB, Karolinska Institutet 1975
  
• MD, Karolinska Institutet 1978
  
• Accreditation: Board certified specialist in internal medicine and cardiology 1986
  
• PhD in Medicine, Karolinska Institutet 1986
  
• Associate Prof/Docent Medicine, Karolinska Institutet 1990
  

Current positions:

• Professor of Cardiovascular Diseases, Karolinska Institutet 1999-
  
• Senior consultant cardiologist, Karolinska University Hospital 1991-
  
• Research team leader, Atherosclerosis Research Unit, Department of Medicine Solna, Karolinska Institutet 1987-
  
• Vice-Chancellor/President of Karolinska Institutet 2013-2018; 20% of ordinary working hours should be spent on research according to my agreement with the University Board; in effect, 50 hours/week are spent on university leadership and 20 hours/week on research
  
• On leave of absence from my position as senior consultant cardiologist while serving as Vice-Chancellor of Karolinska Institutet
  

Previous positions:

• Houseman, Department of Medicine, Serafimer Hospital, Stockholm 1978-1980
  
• Registrar/Senior registrar, Dept. Medicine, Danderyd Hospital, 1980-1986, Stockholm
  
• Junior investigator of the Swedish Medical Research Council 1987-1990
  
• Senior registrar, Dept. Cardiovascular Medicine, 1987-1991, Karolinska Hospital, Stocholm
  
• Senior Investigator of the Swedish Heart-Lung Foundation 1991-1997
  

(position at the KI endowed and supported by the Swedish Heart-Lung Foundation)

• Reader in Cardiovascular Research, Karolinska Institutet April-June 1997
  
• Director of King Gustaf V Research Institute, Karolinska Institutet 1993-2007
  
• Vice-Chairman of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet 1996-1999
  
• Chairman of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet 1999-2004, 2005-2007
  
• Academic Chairman, Division of Cardiovascular and Respiratory Diseases, Karolinska University Hospital 2004-2007
  
• Professor of Cardiovascular Research, Karolinska Institutet 1997-1998
  
• Head, Atherosclerosis Research Unit, Dept. Medicine, 1993-2012, Karolinska Institutet
  

Distinctions:

• 1st price for best original article from Scandinavian Society of Atherosclerosis 1986
  
• The Friedrich Merz prize from the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurtc1997
  
• Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (FRCP); 2002 elected according to bye-law 39b (scientific excellence)
  
• Member of the Nobel Assembly for Medicine and Physiology 2004-
  
• Member of the Nobel Committee for Medicine and Physiology 2004, 2010, 2011, 2012
  
• Distinguished Professor Award from Karolinska Institutet 2010
  

Supervision and mentorship:

• Principal supervisor for 7 PhD students and co-supervisor for 23 PhD students who have completed their thesis
  
• Principal supervisor for (+ year of PhD): Fredrik Karpe (1992), Per Tornvall (1993), Peter Båvenholm (1995), Elisabeth Moor (1996),
  
• Johan Björkegren (1998), Ferdinand van’t Hooft (1999) and Susanna Boquist (2000)
  
• Current or previous supervisor for 23 post-doctoral fellows (+year of start of
  

supervision): Fredrik Karpe MD PhD (1992), Per Eriksson PhD (1992), Angela Silveira PhD (1992), Giacomo Ruotolo MD *PhD (1996), Ewa Ehrenborg MD PhD (1997), Beth Allison PhD (1998), Francesca Ragogna PhD (1998), Rachel Fisher PhD (1998), Eric Gagne PhD (1998), Ferdinand van’t Hooft MD PhD (1999), Danilo Norata PhD (2000), Carl Whatling PhD (2000), Jacob Lagrercrantz MD

• PhD (2002), Johan Björkegren MD PhD (2002), Jacob Odeberg MD PhD (2006), Anders Mälarstig PhD (2006), Maria Jesús Iglesias PhD (2007), Alexandra Bäcklund PhD (2008), Rona Strawbridge PhD (2009), Maria Sabater-Lleal PhD (2009), Olga Piksasova PhD (2010), Maria Gonzalez Diez (2010) and Sergej Popov PhD (2012)
  

Commissions of trust:

• Scientific Secretary and Vice-Chairman of the Swedish Society of Cardiology 1992-1995
  
• International evaluator of Chairs endowed and supported by the British Heart Foundation 1996, 2000, 2006
  
• Associate Editor for the journal Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and 2000-2005 Vascular Biology (American Heart Association)
  
• Member of the Board of the King Gustaf V 80th Birthday Foundation 1995-2012
  
• Member of the Board of the Salus Ansvar Foundation 2003-2012
  
• International evaluator of the Biocenter Oulu, Finland 2011
  
• Scientific Advisor to the Ragnar Söderberg Foundation 2011-2012
  
• Member of the Research Council of the Swedish Heart-Lung Foundation 2011-2012
  

Publications:

• Author of 379 original articles, 7 editorials and 20 reviews, published in peer reviewed journals, and 19 review articles published in journal supplements or book chapters; 488 items listed in PubMed (on 6 December 2015)
  
• Publications cited around 30,000 occasions according to the ISI/Web of Science
  
• H-index: 90