Professor Karin Schenck-Gustafsson

Karin Schenck-Gustafsson (KSG) MD, PhD, senior professor cardiology, Dept. of Cardiology, Karolinska University Hospital and Karolinska Institutet (KI), Stockholm, Sweden. Married with Anders, 2 daughters, 6 grandkids. KSG defended her theses at KI 1982 about the treatment of atrial fibrillation which included an article in NEJM. She was head of the CCU during many years, then clinical professor of cardiology. Now mainly having patients in private praxis. She has had several PhD students. She started the Women and Coronary Disease study which also got fundings from NIH. Her main topics of research lately are female riskfactors for ischemic heart disease and the frequency and causes of palpitations in healthy women. She got a royal reward from the King of Sweden 2016 for her research as well as the big silver medallion from Karolinska Institutet 2024.