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Karin Wirdefeldt is an Adjunct Professor of neuroepidemiology at Karolinska Institutet, affiliated with the Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics and the Department of Clinical Neuroscience. She is also a senior neurologist at the Department of Neurology, Karolinska University Hospital, Solna.
- Medical Degree (MD), Karolinska Institutet, 1996
- Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, 2004
- Docent (Associate Professor), Karolinska Institutet, 2015
Her research focuses on identifying risk factors and studying outcomes for neurological disorders, with a primary emphasis on Parkinson's disease and epilepsy. She integrates epidemiological methodologies with medical genetics, genomics, and clinical neuroscience to explore the etiology and progression of these conditions.
As an adjunct professor, Wirdefeldt contributes to academic leadership in neuroepidemiology and collaborates with Per Svenningsson's Neuropharmacology - Movement Disorders research group. She supervises PhD students Sara Licaj and Katalin Vincze.
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