Olle Ljungqvist
Date of birth
1954 08 08, Stockholm, Sweden
Martial status
Married to Elisabeth, four sons born 1980, 1982, 1988, 1992
Present position
Professor of Surgery, Karolinska Institutet, CLINTEC, Division of Surgery, Karolinska University Hospital Huddinge, Stockholm
Education
1985 MD, Karolinska Institutet
1987 PhD, Thesis ”Food deprivation and glucose homeostasis in hemorrhage”, Karolinska Institutet
1991 Docent General Surgery, Karolinska Institutet
1998-1999 Karolinska Institutet Future Leadership program
2004 European Health Leadership Program, INSEAD, France
Surgical Training
1989 Karolinska & St Görans Hospital, Licensed specialist in General Surgery
Surgical Appointments
1989-1997 Senior registrar / consultant & Associate Professor of
Surgery, Karolinska Hospital
1998-1999 Senior consultant surgeon, Ass Prof Surgery, Dept Surgery, Huddinge Univ Hospital, Stockholm
1999-2007 Head of Centre of Gastrointestinal Disease, Ersta hospital, Stockholm,
2005- Professor of Surgery, Karolinska Institutet & Ersta Hospital
Research positions
1989-1997 Head of Experimental laboratories, Dept Surgery, Karolinska Hospital
1993-1994 Visiting Professor Medicine, Univ Vermont, USA
1994-2000 Executive Board, European Shock Society
1996-2001 Clinical research appointment 50% Medical Research Council, Sweden
1996-2006 Vice chair man & Chairman SWESPEN
1997-2000 Scientific Committee member ESPEN
2000-2004 General Secretary ESPEN
2006- Chairman ESPEN
2008- Program Chairman Danish Research Council
2001 Co-founder of the Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) study group
Editorial Board Clinical Nutrition, Circulatory Shock, Shock, Curr Op Clin Nutr Metab
Reviewer for journals including Science, Nature Medicine, Surgery, Am J Physiol, Shock, J Hepatology, Eur J Surg, Br J Surg, Clin Nutr, Nutrition, Acta Anaesthesiol Scand.
Expert reviewer for among others MRC, UK, Welcome Trust, Austrian Research Council, Danish Research Council.
Supervision of PhDs 12 PhD students, and 3 ongoing PhD students
Publications Approximately 110 original publications, about 25 reviews and book chapters in primarily metabolism & surgical stress.
Co-editor of Clinical Nutrition text book, The Human Nutrition Text Book Series, Blackwell Publishing
Invited lectures Approximately 20 invitations annually to major international meetings as a lecturer for the last five years.
Funding Over the last 15 years recipient of grants from the Swedish Research Council (#09101), several national foundations, and the EU.
