1 CURRICULUM VITAE (CV) FOR Thomas Kjellström e-post ...

CURRICULUM VITAE (CV) FOR Thomas Kjellström
e-post: thomas.kjellstrom@skane.se
1. Position: Consultant of Dept of Medicine,
2. Name of Firm: Helsingborg Hospital, Helsingborg, Sweden
3. Name of Staff: Thomas Kjellström
4. Profession: Associate Professor, MD, PhD, FACP, FRSM
5. Date of Birth: January 27, 1944
6. Years with firm: 33 years Nationality: Sweden
7. Membership in Professional Societies: Swedish Society of Internal Medicine
Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, London. UK
Fellow American College of Physician (FACP)
President of the International Society of Internal
Medicine
8. Key Qualifications:
• Prof. Kjellström has a very deep knowledge on hospital management based on many years
of working experience and studies of how health care institutions can provide medical
services in a rational and cost efficient way.
• Today, he works partly as an advisor to the Swedish government in issues on Quality
standards and DRGs.
• Is Scientific counsellor to the Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare.
• He has many years of managing and participating in several clinical trials. Among them he
was chairman of a national 100-center clinical study on hyperlipidemia.
• He also has long time experience in chairing international scientific meetings.
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9. Education:
1963 High School Certificate, Malmö Latinskola, Malmö, Sweden.
1965 Bachelor of Art. University of Lund. Lund, Sweden.
1967 Bachelor of Medicine. University of Lund.
1972 Doctor of Medicine.
1972 Approved Physician by the National Swedish Social Welfare Board.
1974 ECFMG certificate (Educational Council for Foreign Medical Graduates), USA.
1977-83 Several specific research educational courses.
1986 Associate Professor at the University of Lund.
10. Employment Record and other positions:
1977 Approved speciality by the National Swedish Social Welfare board: Internal
Medicine.
1986 Approved Specialist in Endocrinology.
1986 Vice Head of the Department of Medicine. University of Lund, Sweden.
1987-1992 Head of Department of Medicine. University of Lund and Malmö General Hospital,
Malmö, Sweden.
1992 Visiting professor at Bowman Gray School of Medicine. Wake Forest University,
Winston-Salem, NC, USA.
1992-2005 Head of the Department of Medicine. Helsingborg Hospital, Sweden.
2005- Consultant at the Dept of Medicine, Helsingborg. Medical Advisor to the Scania
County Council, particularly to the southeastern area.
11. Employment record; International Experience:
1980 Postgraduate course in Diabetology, Radcliffe Infirmary, University of Oxford, UK
1983 Continuing education course in Angiology. Mayo Foundation, Rochester, Minnesota,
USA
1986 Chairman at sessions in the World Congress of Internal Medicine in Bogota, Colombia
1988 Chairman at sessions in the World Congress of Internal Medicine in Brussels,
Belgium.
1990 Chairman at sessions in the World Congress of Internal Medicine in Stockholm,
Sweden.
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1992 Visiting professor at Bowman Gray School of Medicine, Wake Forest University,
Winston-Salem, USA
2001 Single teacher of a 5-day programme on Training of Trainers in Quality Control and
Management (18-25 Jan) in Abu Dhabi, United Emirates.
2001 Single teacher of a 5-day programme on Training of Trainers in Quality Control and
Management (20-27 Nov) in Tiblisia, Georgia.
2002 Single teacher of a 5-day programme on Training of Trainers in Quality Control and
Management (19-23 March) in, Chisinau, Moldavia.
2004 Chairman at sessions in the World Congress of Internal Medicine in Granada, Spain.
1985-
2004
Given lectures in more than 20 different countries all over the world.
2005 Key lecture at the Bangladesh Society of Medicine
12.Other positions:
1979- Delegate of the Swedish Society of Medicine.
1978-
1986
1984-
1991
1988-
1991
Secretary of the Swedish Society of Internal Medicine.
Secretary of the Swedish Society of Medical Angiology..
Vice President of the Swedish Society of Internal Medicine.
1988 Member of The Royal Society of Medicine, London, U.K.
1990 Chairman of the Expert Committee in Internal Medicine of the Swedish national
Board of Health and Welfare, (Current position).
1991-
1994
President of the Swedish Society of Internal Medicine.
1993 Fellow of the Royal society of Medicine, U.K.
1995 Member of the New York Academy of Sciences.
1995 Subject of biographical record in “Who’s Who in the World”, Marquis Who’s
Who Publication Board, USA. (Annually).
1996- Member of the Executive Committee of the International Society of Internal
Medicine.
1996 Vice President of the Societas Medicorum Lundensis, University of Lund.
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1997-
1998
President of the Societas Medicorum Lundensis, University of Lund.
1998 Fellow of the American college of Physician
2002 President Elect, International Society of Internal Medicine
2004 President of the International Society of Internal Medicine,
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13. Languages:
Language Speaking Reading Writing
Swedish Native Native Native
English Excellent Excellent Good
14. Certification:
I, undersigned, certify that to the best of my knowledge and belief, these data correctly describe me,
my qualifications, and my experience.
Thomas Kjellström Date: 13/02/06
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