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I hope you are all well in your professional and personal lives and that you work hard, which is necessary in our profession. But don’t forget to take time off also! It’s easy to become submerged in science; this 24/7 activity that we bring with us constantly. I’m much in favor of the idea of a balanced life. Even if we love what we do, it’s important to make an active choice and use your brains for other activities now and then. KI has a lot to say about how to find balance in your life where you can find inspiration.
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I was recently reminded about the focus we sometimes have at KI, on how difficult it can be to manage work optimally. We are often told which risks we face balancing demands from our capacity to perform. However, it’s important to also remind ourselves about the benefits, freedom, and inspiration it is to work as a creative scientist! Not many other jobs are as interesting and offer so many opportunities for personal and professional development. I like to think that this feeling is also transmitted to all of you who are not scientists or teachers, but work hard to support our academic work, centrally and in the units. Freedom also comes with expectations and responsibility at all levels. It’s of outmost importance that all of you who have line management duties exert your leadership with compassion, understanding and wisdom. KI has many opportunities for leadership development, and I would like to encourage all of you who want to train and improve your leadership skills to contact our HR for a discussion. This is not only for established leaders, but for all of us. We should all act as leaders and exert respectful and encouraging behavior in interactions with colleagues.
Mentoring program at MedH
One initiative that I hope will be useful for leadership training is the mentoring program for new early-career scientists that we are presently working on within MedH 2025. We will present a program soon and start the first program this coming fall. Everyone in the right career level makes up our target group, and I hope that those of you who are clinical scientists in the hospital will be well represented in the group. Understanding the university world and what is required to navigate in academia is sometimes difficult among clinicians. The opposite is also true: preclinical scientists are frequently less acquainted with how patient work is conducted and the challenges that are faced when conducting clinical studies. Hopefully, we will be able to increase mutual understanding in the program we will present.
New newsletter for seminars
Another MedH 2025 strategy implementation in the final phase, deals with platforms for scientific exchange. We are close to finalizing the work with a common newsletter listing all our seminar series, for easy access and possibilities to add events to your calendars. Our hope is to reduce the use of e-mails for seminars and other events and instead rely on a monthly newsletter. All administrators and responsible persons for all seminar series are invited to a meeting to discuss how we can harmonize the flow of information to build our newsletter in the best of ways. We hope to have all this up and running after the summer for more coherent and regular information to all.
Some good news on work environment and sustainability
A third strategy implementation well underway regards our work environment and sustainability. You have all heard that paper cups for coffee are no longer purchased in our academic environments Neo and Ana Futura. The initiative came from Sara von Bahr Grebäck, who is leading the work in this implementation program. Sara has also initiated several other activities toward better sustainability, such as agreements with biotech companies selling us products to reuse their styrofoam boxes. Most recently, MedH decided to provide free period products in our premises, a decision that was quickly adopted by both the Neo and Ana Futura steering groups. This made us all very pleased. MedH is leading the way, and we strive to let this be a sign of all our work.
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Starting this week, our head of administration Klas Karlsson is back from a seven-month duty as Planning Director at the KI Central Administration. I know that Klas has done a tremendous job centrally and he will for sure be missed there. At MedH, we are very glad to have you back, and look forward to your outlook in sharpening our administration, making use of all new insights and increased knowledge about KI that you have acquired. I would like to take this opportunity also to thank Johanna Sandelius for your work as Acting head of administration in Klas’ absence! We had a great time together and achieved many things.
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Just to mention a few; we brought to execution strategic investments in our units, finalized recruitment of new economy staff in a turbulent situation and started the work (which will continue now with increasing speed) to provide a more transparent overarching budget follow-up tool for MedH. I am sure these things will strengthen our competitiveness significantly. Many thanks Johanna!
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Finally, a heartful congratulation to Jenny Mjösberg at CIM, who received this year’s prestigious Göran Gustafsson award! A great achievement Jenny! We are proud of you and happy to have you onboard the MedH ship! Good luck with your work and see you around!
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/Petter Höglund, Head of Department
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News from Central Administration
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Klas Karlsson is now back as Head of administration and I will return to my position as Head of finance after my time as Acting head. I must say that it's really fruitful to put oneself in another's place, to be able to better relate to their exeperiences. This has been a intense but very interesting period. And it has also been a great pleasure to work with the different aspects of the department together with all of you!
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Photo: Alena Koval/Pexels
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The Central Administration is developing and we have new coworkers. I believe that we are a strong team. We have achieved some new perspectives and skills, which will be advantageous for the department as a whole. I'm looking forward to continue this journey together with the fantastic administration to support all of MedH in the best way.
The new economy team at MedH
We have finalized the recruting proccess and our new Financial controller Kristina Linkyte has already started, she is introduced below. Patricia Degnell will start as Financial controller on 9 May, she is currently working at the finance unit at BioNut. We are very happy to welcome both of them! When Patricia is onboard, we will communicate who will be your contact person regarding financial matters. If you have any financial matters, please email ekonomi@medh.ki.se. We are here to support you!
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/Johanna Sandelius, Head of Finance
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Some personnel changes within HR
HR-partner Anna Henierö is back from her maternity leave. A warm welcome back Anna! With Anna returning we have made a few changes regarding contact persons at HR for employees at the units. Please continue to send all HR related queries to hr@medh.ki.se.
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Your contact persons at MedH HR
Anna Henierö: HERM/Hematology, Endocrinology, Infectious Diseases & Dermatology, MCC. Jenna Almosawi: CIM, Gastroenterology & Rheumatology, Heart & Lung Diseases, ICMC.
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Deadline for recruitments before summer is 20 June
The long-awaited summer is around the corner and so is the vacation period. During the summer holiday weeks HR will be short staffed. If you want to recruit please contact your HR-partner as soon as possible to make a plan for your recruitment. Deadline for new recruitments before the summer is 20 June!
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Neurodiversity in the workplace, 21 April - lecture with Lotta Borg Skoglund
Why is it important to raise knowledge of neurodiversity in workplaces and institutions? And what are the long-term consequences of failing to work actively with these questions? - Lotta Borg Skoglund, Senior physician and specialist in general medicine and psychiatry and Associate Professor, will talk about this in an online lecture for all MedH staff.
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/Ellen Carlsson, HR Manager
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Welcome Kristina Linkyte - new Financial controller at MedH
Kristina started at MedH in early March and we are happy to have her on board!
Read the interview with Kristina on the MedH staff portal.
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This new and exciting conference aims to gather "influencers" in Health Professions Education (HPE) from multiple health professions and from every continent. Jonas Nordquist at Medical Case Centre (MCC) at MedH is one of the organizers.
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Environment and sustainability news
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KI Sustainability Day 2023
KI Sustainability Day is arranged annually to increase knowledge of sustainability issues and provide tools for students and employees to act sustainably.
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The Sustainable Research Week 19-20 April
This is a hybrid event at KI Campus Solna, organised by The Students for Sustainable Development Committee (SSD) at KI. You can still register!
Free period products for staff are now available in Neo!
It's also under way in Ana Futura and in C2:94.
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Don't forget to recycle!
It's important to sort office paper as return paper for recycling and not put in regular rubbish/combustibles.
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Meet a MedH staff member - Christina Carlander
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What is your role at MedH?
I'm a senior consultant of Infectious Diseases at Karolinska University Hospital. I have been affiliated to MedH, the Infectious diseases and dermatology unit since about ten years. I'm also the Director of the Swedish HIV Quality Register InfCareHIV.
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What is your research about?
My main focus is register-based studies of comorbidity in people living with HIV. Current projects include studies on HPV related cancer in men with HIV, risk of lymphoma by HIV status, and HIV and SARS-Cov-2 coinfection.
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What is the best part of your job?
I very much appreciate the link between HIV research, the HIV out-patient department and the community living with HIV, and all the possibilities that bring. I also really enjoy teaching and supervising research-students
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What are your interests/hobbies?
Is it possible to have a country as a hobby ? - In that case I have Italy as a hobby; the culture, the history, the people, the language, the food and the wine!
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KI and The Conversation invite researchers to a training session on how to find the news potential in your own research and write for the public. The Conversation is a politically unaffiliated international online platform for journalistic popular science articles.
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Welcome to an afterwork where, doctoral students and postdocs from KI, KTH Royal Institute of Technology and Stockholm University get the chance to present their research on stage.
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Interested to learn more about the services offered by KI:s Core Facilities and how they can help accelerate your research? - Join the Core Facilities Poster Lunch in ANA Futura!
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The main focus of Cedric's group’s research is the production of blood cells for human use, namely red cells and platelets.
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Talk will be on "Genetic landscape of myeloproliferative neoplasms." This is a hybrid seminar in Erna Möller in Neo.
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MedH hosted a successful visit by teachers from the Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia, as part of the teacher exchange within the Linnaeus-Palme Programme.
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ALF funds allocated for TBL within the medical program
A decision has been made to distribute SEK 1.2 million of ALF funds in order to make it possible for teachers/doctors with regional employment to be released with pay to develop TBL modules for the medicine courses (T5 and T6) within it new six-year medical program.
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From the autumn semester 2023, the fee for opponents will be increased to SEK 15,000.
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It will now be easier for doctoral students to conduct parts of their research studies abroad without it affecting their ability to obtain or maintain their residence permit in Sweden.
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There are a number of seminars, courses in higher education and workshops for those involved in teaching at KI.
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Tips, tricks and KI tools
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Don't miss all the KI tools and support available for you
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Visit the staff portal and the Tools and support page for help with everything from e-meetings, business travel to steering documents and economy.
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News media opportunity for KI researchers
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KI is a member of The Conversation, an international news platform that is changing the way academics interact with the media. The collaboration benefits researchers by boosting their international profile and sharpening their communication skills, both of which are great for funding applications.
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MedH News is an internal newsletter published by the Department of Medicine, Huddinge. The newsletter is issued around three times per semester. If you have any tips on current issues or changes of concern to the department for the coming issues of the MedH Newsletter, please send an email to the newsletter editor: amalia.kewenter@ki.se
Please check KI:s news publishing guidelines prior to sending your email.
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