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Jan-Erik Karlsson

Senior Associate Professor

Associate Professor and Consultant, Vice dekan for collaboration at the Faculty of Medicine.

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Faculty of Medicine

In my work as vice dean, I work with collaboration, above all together with our education programs at the Faculty of Medicine and with Region Östergötland, Region Jönköping County, Region Kalmar County and the municipalities in Östergötland. I work together with the vice dean for education Malin Lindqvist Appell and focus above all on issues of clinical practice. In my work, I sit on the faculty board and the University Health Committee, and I am chairman of the Council for Healthcare Development. I am part of the theme group CREN (Circulation, Respiration, Erythron and Kidney) and I am responsible for the cardiology teaching in semester 6 of the medical program. I am the main supervisor of two PhD students, Walid El-Saadi and Per Andersson, and co-supervisor of Antheia Kissopoulou, Sammy Zwackman and Zeid Mahmood.
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Southeast healthcare region

In addition to this, I am also part of the management of the Southeast healthcare region, Knowledge Council of Medicine and emergency care, Knowledge Council of Diagnostics and the senses, National Program Area for Heart and Vascular Diseases and chairman of the Regional Program Area for Cardiovascular Diseases. Clinical activities at the Clinic Medicine at Ryhov County Hospital in Jönköping.

About me

Education

  • High School Certificate Examination, Jönköping, 1976
  • M.D. University of Gothenburg, 1982
  • Qualification as a specialist of Internal Medicine, 1989
  • Qualification as a specialist of Cardiology, 1990
  • Ph.D. University of Linköping, 1994
  • Ass. professor. University of Linköping, 2013

Positions

  • 1982 – 1983 Resident, County Hospital, Jönköping, Sweden.
  • 1984 – 1988 Resident, Department of Internal Medicine, County Hospital, Jönköping, Sweden.
  • 1988 - 1990 Resident, Department of Cardiology and Clinical Physiology, University Hospital, Linköping, Sweden.
  • 1990 Consultant, Department of Cardiology, UniversityHospital, Linköping, Sweden.
  • 1990 - 1997 Consultant, Department of Internal Medicine, County Hospital Ryhov, Jönköping, Sweden.
  • 1997 - 2007 Head of Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, County Hospital Ryhov, Jönköping, Sweden.
  • 2003 - 2007 Vice President, Department of Internal Medicine, County Hospital Ryhov, Jönköping, Sweden.
  • 2008 - 2009 Consultant, University lecturer, Department of Clinical Physiology, County Hospital Ryhov, Jönköping, Sweden.
    Chairman for the Cardiology group in southeast region of Sweden
  • 2009 - 2013 Vice President, Department of Internal Medicine, County Hospital Ryhov, Jönköping, Sweden. Chairman for the Cardiology group in southeast region of Sweden
  • 2014 – 2015 Consultant, County Hospital Ryhov. Chairman for the Cardiology group in southeast region of Sweden
  • 2016 - Consultant, County Hospital Ryhov. University lecturer, Department of Health, Medicine and Caring Sciences, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden. Chairman for the Cardiology group in southeast region of Sweden
  • 2021 - Vice dean, Faculty of Medicine, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden.

Society Memberships

  • Swedish Medical Society
  • Swedish Society of Internal Medicine
  • Swedish Society of Cardiology, member of the board 1999-2001

Publications

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Jan-Erik Karlsson, Walid El-Saadi, Mustafa Ali, Werner Puskar, Patrik Skogvard, Jan E Engvall, Rolf Andersson, Eva Maret, Per Jynge (2015)
Mangafodipir as a cardioprotective adjunct to reperfusion therapy: a feasibility study in patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction

European Heart Journal - Cardiovascular Pharmacotherapy , Vol.1 , s.39-45 Continue to DOI

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Walid El-Saadi, Jan Engvall, Joakim Alfredsson, Jan-Erik Karlsson, Marcelo Martins, Sofia Sederholm Lawesson, Shaikh Faisal Zaman, Tino Ebbers, Johan Kihlberg (2022)
A head-to-head comparison of myocardial strain by fast-strain encoding and feature tracking imaging in acute myocardial infarction

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine , Vol.9 Continue to DOI

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Sammy Zwackman, Jenny Häggström, Emil Hagström, Tomas Jernberg, Jan-Erik Karlsson, Sofia Sederholm Lawesson, Margret Leosdottir, Annica Ravn-Fischer, Marie Eriksson, Joakim Alfredsson (2024)
Management and outcome in foreign-born vs native-born patients with myocardial infarction in Sweden

European Heart Journal - Quality of Care and Clinical Outcomes , Vol.10 , s.507-522 Continue to DOI

2025

Antheia Kissopoulou, Rada Ellegård, Eva Fernlund, Jan-Erik Karlsson, Henrik Green, Cecilia Gunnarsson (2025) Unravelling the Genotype of the Apical Variant of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy in a Swedish Cohort Genes, Vol. 16, Article 494 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI

2024

Sammy Zwackman, Margret Leosdottir, Emil Hagstrom, Tomas Jernberg, Jan-Erik Karlsson, Sofia Sederholm Lawesson, Halldora Ogmundsdottir Michelsen, Annica Ravn-Fischer, John Wallert, Joakim Alfredsson (2024) Provision of professional interpreters and Heart School attendance for foreign-born compared with native-born myocardial infarction patients in Sweden IJC Heart & Vasculature, Vol. 51, Article 101392 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Sammy Zwackman, Jenny Häggström, Emil Hagström, Tomas Jernberg, Jan-Erik Karlsson, Sofia Sederholm Lawesson, Margret Leosdottir, Annica Ravn-Fischer, Marie Eriksson, Joakim Alfredsson (2024) Management and outcome in foreign-born vs native-born patients with myocardial infarction in Sweden European Heart Journal - Quality of Care and Clinical Outcomes, Vol. 10, p. 507-522 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI

2023

Åshild Olsen Faresjö, Jan-Erik Karlsson, Henrik Segerberg, Andrea Lebena, Tomas Faresjö (2023) Cardiovascular and psychosocial risks among patients below age 50 with acute myocardial infarction BMC Cardiovascular Disorders, Vol. 23, Article 121 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Walid El-Saadi, Jan Engvall, Joakim Alfredsson, Jan-Erik Karlsson, Marcelo Martins, Sofia Sederholm Lawesson, Shaikh Faisal Zaman, Tino Ebbers, Johan Kihlberg (2023) Correction: A head-to-head comparison of myocardial strain by fast-strain encoding and feature tracking imaging in acute myocardial infarction (vol 9, 949440, 2022) Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine, Vol. 10, Article 1140214 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI

Research

Cardio diet

The Cardiodiet Trial

Is a Mediterranean diet with reduced carbohydrate content a better choice than traditional low-fat diet for patients with coronary heart disease?

Organisation

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Division of Diagnostics and Specialist Medicine (DISP)

The division consists of three units (internal medicine, cardiovascular and radiological sciences) and contains seven subject areas within which research and teaching are conducted.

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