Charlotte Ytterberg

Charlotte Ytterberg is a Senior Lecturer and physiotherapist with specialist competence at Karolinska Institutet, where she also serves as Docent. She holds an adjunct professorship at the University of Southern Denmark and leads the research group Health services research in neurological conditions within the Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society. Her career spans research and teaching since 2008, with a focus on improving healthcare for neurological patients through co-creation and interdisciplinary collaboration.

• PhD in Health Services Research (Karolinska Institutet, 2008)
• Docent in Health Services Research (Karolinska Institutet, 2015)

Her research addresses self-management programs for fall prevention in MS, person-centred integrated care models, and co-design methodologies involving patients and healthcare providers. She investigates healthcare organization strategies to enhance daily life outcomes for individuals with neurological disabilities, emphasizing cross-sector collaboration and patient participation.

Recent publications highlight her work in digital fall prevention programs for MS patients, care transition quality for stroke survivors, and ALS healthcare utilization. Her studies frequently employ co-creation frameworks and longitudinal analysis across multiple sclerosis, stroke, and ALS populations in Sweden, Denmark, USA, and Uganda.

Key funded projects include:

• Fewer falls in MS (Promobilia Foundation)
• Self-management fall prevention (Swedish Research Council)
• Coordinated care transitions (Kamprad Family Foundation)

She supervises doctoral students and collaborates with researchers across diverse fields including neurology, physiotherapy, and health services research. Her work appears in journals like Mult Scler Relat Disord, Clin Rehabil, and J Neurol Sci, with international co-authors from Denmark, USA, and Africa.