Karin Ekstrom-Smedby
Professor and research group leader in hematology-oncology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Dr. Karin Ekstrom-Smedby is a professor and research group leader in hematology/oncology at the Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, and a senior consultant in Hematology at the Karolinska University Hospital. Her research focuses on etiology, survival, and survivorship in mature B-cell and T-cell malignancies using both observational register-based, clinical, and translational approaches. She is the national register holder of the Swedish Lymphoma quality-of-care register, chair of the Blood Cancer register steering group in Sweden and the Hematology Research and Education group at the Karolinska hospital. She is also an editor of the scientific journals Journal of Internal Medicine and Acta Oncologica. In 2022, she became honorary doctor of Aalborg University in Denmark.