Toomas Timpka

CV

• Professor of Social Medicine and Public Health at Linköping University from 1998

• Associate Professor of Medical Informatics at Linköping University from 1990 

• Senior Physician at Region Östergötland from 1994

Research grants (selection)

• Vinnova: “Computer support and disturbance during healthcare consultations” (4 million SEK) 1990-1993

• European Union research programs: Swedish partner in “DILEMMA”, “AMODEUS”, and “METKIT” projects 1994-1998

• Swedish Knowledge and Competence Foundation (KKS): “Distance education for local knowledge development” (DLK) (15 million SEK) 1998-2004

• Swedish Center for Sports Research (CIF): several projects from 2002.

• Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (KBM/MSB): “PROSPER” - development of information infrastructure for the control of infectious diseases (20 million SEK) 2006–2013

• Swedish Social Insurance Agency (FK): “SRS – sickness absence forecast” (10 million SEK) 2015–2016

• Swedish Research Council (VR): “Predictions of influenza outbreak” (4 million SEK) 2012-2012 and “Real-time evaluation of Covid-19 vaccination” (with Thomas Schön) (16 million SEK) 2021-2026).

Education

• 1983 Medical Doctor (MD), Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm

• 1988 Board certified Physician

• 1989 Doctor of Medical Informatics (PhD), Linköping University

• 1990 Tenure to Associate Professor (Docent) in Medical Informatics, Linköping University (Faculty of Technology)

• 1992 Tenure to Associate Professor (Docent) in Social Medicine, Linköping University (Faculty of Medicine)

• 1993 Specialist Physician in Social Medicine

Educational assignments

I mentor postdocs, supervise PhD and master’s students in various fields epidemiology and prevention, and am responsible for master’s courses on topics ranging from Social Epidemiology to Public Health Informatics.

Supervision of Research Students

To doctorate

Main Supervisor: Cecilia Sjöberg, 1996; Ann-Charlotte Hermansson, 1996; Niklas Hallberg, 1998; Mikael Johansson, 1998; Vivian Vimarlund, 1998; Tomas Reigo, 1999; Margareta Leijon, 2000; Sofie Pilemalm, 2001; Kia Ölvander, 2002; Annelie Hagdahl, 2003; Alireza Moula, 2005; Åshild Faresjö, 2006; Örjan Dahlström, 2009; Jenny Jacobsson, 2012; Joakim Ekberg, 2012; Hamideh Rasi, 2013; Armin Spreco, 2017.

Co-supervisor: Örjan Garpenholt, 2000; Anna Fägerskjöld, 2002; David Dinka, 2006; Per Nilsen, 2006; Bahlol Rahimi, 2009; Agneta Kullberg, 2010; Margareta Wilhelmsson, 2011; Stefan Backe, 2014; Adam Hulme, 2017; Christine Nyström Delisle, 2017; Kristina Fagher, 2019;

To licentiate

Main supervisor: Gunilla Ivefors, Informatics, 1997; Kristina Davidsson, Social Medicine, 2002; Anna Alexandersson, Informatics, 2003; Susanne Kvarnström, Social Medicine, 2007; Marie Teder, Health Sciences/Pediatrics, 2013.

Scientific awards (selection)

• Young Scientist Award from the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) in 1986 and corresponding awards from the Swedish Society for Medical Informatics in 1986 and 1989.

• "Bud Lawson Award" for international research achievements from the Faculty of Engineering at LiU in 1992.

• Gold medal for best scientific article at the World Conference on Medical Informatics "MedInfo 1998" in Seoul, Korea.

• Best presentation at the World Conference on Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion "Safety 2008" in Merida, Mexico.

Trust assignments (selection)

• Research and development advisor to the Swedish Technical Attachés in San Francisco, CA, USA, 1987.

• Coordinator for Safe Sports within the WHO Safe Communities program between 2000 and 2008.

• Appointed by World Athletics to coordinate the international consensus documents on definitions of injuries and illnesses in athletics from 2014.

• Responsible for injury and illness prevention research in connection with the IAAF World Athletics Championships in Beijing, 2015, IAAF U18 World Athletics Championships in Nairobi, 2017, IAAF World Athletics Championships in London, 2017, and IAAF U20 World Athletics, 20018 Tampere.

• Chairman of the Medical Committee at the Swedish Athletics Federation from 2019 to present. Deputy editor responsible for Sports Medicine and Epidemiology at the Journal of Science and Medicine in Sports from 2019.

• Deputy editor responsible for Sports Medicine and Epidemiology at JSAMS plus from 2023.

   

Community involvment

• Coach at youth and junior level in Stångebro BK/BK Derby bandy club 1995-2002.

• Coach at youth level in BK Kenty football club 1996-2006.

• Board member of BK Kenty football club 2005-2009.