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Ulrik Kihlbom is a Professor of Medical Clinical Ethics at Karolinska Institutet, affiliated with the Department of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics (LIME). He leads the Stockholm Centre for Healthcare Ethics and is part of Gert Helgesson's medical ethics research group. His work focuses on ethical issues in patient decision-making, social care, public health, and normative bioethics. Current research includes projects on child welfare decisions restricting social contact (funded by the Swedish Research Council) and personalized preventive strategies for early-stage Multiple Sclerosis (RELIABLE project funded via ERA PerMed).
He teaches medical ethics at KI's medical school and contributes to educational committees. Professional roles include membership in ethics councils of major hospitals (Karolinska University Hospital, Astrid Lindgren Children's Hospital) and advisory roles for the Swedish Agency for Health Technology Assessment (SBU). Recent projects involve patient preferences in drug development (IMI PREFER consortium) and ethical aspects of precision medicine in hematology.
Grants include studies on suicide risk assessments in psychiatric care, ethical challenges in social service decisions, and randomized trials on rheumatoid arthritis treatments. His research emphasizes interdisciplinary collaboration across philosophy, law, public health, and social work to address complex ethical dilemmas in healthcare systems.
