RESEARCH GROUP LEADER

Karin Strigård

"My role is to guide the student in finding their way to becoming a clinically competent physician with the theoretical knowledge, ethical and genus considerations involved."

Karin started her medical training 1979. In 1993 she qualified as a specialist in surgery. Karin was one of two surgeons responsible for the introduction of laparoscopic colorectal surgery in Stockholm in 1997. Her chosen orientation was colorectal surgery and advanced abdominal wall surgery. In 2002, Karin received accreditation as a colorectal surgeon.

Among other things, Karin has developed a new, scientifically approved method for 3D intrastomal ultrasonography, which is now used clinically. During 2001 she initiated a collaboration program for the treatment of ventral hernia together with the Reconstructive Plastic Surgery unit at the Karolinska University Hospital. This has led to the development of new procedures concerning reconstruction of advanced abdominal defects.

Since 2011, Karin operates from the University Hospital of Umeå, currently as a senior physician at the Centre of Surgery and as a professor at the Department of Surgery. Special competences include colorectal surgery, endoanal, endorectal and intrastomal 3D ultrasound as well as abdominal wall surgery and reconstruction of advanced abdominal wall defects.

Main supervisor of: Aapo Inkiläinen, Annie Silfvenius, Gunnar Nordqvist, Johan Nyman, Karin Adamo, Louise Almkvist

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