Ellenor Mittendorfer-Rutz

Ellenor Mittendorfer-Rutz is a **Professor of Insurance Medicine** at **Karolinska Institutet**, Sweden, and Head of the **Division of Insurance Medicine**. She leads the **MENTE research group** focusing on mental health and social integration. Her work integrates epidemiology, occupational health, and public health to address disability pensions, sickness absence, and mental disorders, with a focus on vulnerable populations like refugees and immigrants.

**Education**: PhD in Global Public Health (2005, Karolinska Institutet), Docent (2013). She specializes in register-based studies, applying advanced statistical methods to national healthcare and labor data.

**Research Interests**: Epidemiology of mental disorders, work disability mechanisms, healthcare utilization patterns, and the impact of migration on health. Her recent work explores pandemic effects on mental health, suicide risk among refugees, and pharmacological treatments for bipolar disorder and psychosis.

**Key Contributions**: Over 200 peer-reviewed articles, including studies on antipsychotic effectiveness, labor market marginalization of individuals with mental disorders, and machine learning for mortality risk prediction in bipolar disorder. Her research bridges clinical practice and policy, informing insurance medicine and public health frameworks.

**Awards**: None explicitly listed, though her extensive publications reflect academic recognition.

**Grants/Advising**: Not detailed in provided texts, but her leadership roles suggest sustained research funding. Her MENTE group collaborates internationally on mental health equity and refugee health initiatives.

**Labs/Teams**: MENTE (Mental health and social integration) research group at Karolinska Institutet.