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Aleksandra Turkiewicz serves as an Associate Professor in Medical Statistics at Lund University's Faculty of Medicine, based at the Clinical Epidemiology Unit (IKVL). Her work focuses on statistical methodology development for orthopaedic and epidemiological research, with particular expertise in register-based studies and pre-clinical applications. She holds additional roles as a Researcher in Orthopaedics, participant in the Lund OsteoArthritis Division, and member of the LU Profile Area: Proactive Ageing.
Her research interests center on register-based epidemiology with emphasis on bias quantification, multilevel models in omics applications, and methods for handling missing data. She is responsible for the mandatory statistics course for PhD students at the medical faculty with pre-clinical research focus, and serves as Associate Editor for Statistics at Osteoarthritis and Cartilage. Her work contributes to UN Sustainable Development Goals related to health and wellbeing.
Analysis of her recent publications reveals a strong focus on osteoarthritis epidemiology, particularly knee and hip osteoarthritis, with increasing integration of genetic and metabolic factors in understanding disease mechanisms. Her work spans population-based cohort studies, clinical classification systems, and molecular-level investigations into joint tissue degeneration.
Dr. Turkiewicz actively supervises doctoral students and participates in multiple research projects including EpiMusc2 (2025-2045), The Impact of Metabolic Health on Osteoarthritis (2023-2027), and several dissertation projects focused on thumb base osteoarthritis, meniscus repair outcomes, and socioeconomic inequalities in musculoskeletal care. Her collaborative network spans multiple institutions with significant international engagement as evidenced by her participation in multi-center studies.
