In honour of February being heart health month Professor Anna Strömberg joined me from Sweden, to share her research journey. She has not 1 but 3 roles she balances as a clinical academic nurse! Heart Failure Nurse Specialist, Associate Dean, and Professor of Nursing!! She shares how her PhD gave her the skills to use data as a powerful tool and how that shaped her research journey.
Top 3 Takeaways
1) Data is a tool to demonstrate the power of your clinical work
2) Research can be love at first sight
3) Clinical academic success is a team sport
Bio: Anna Strömberg is the associate dean of research at the medical faculty at Linköping University. She leads the research education of 500 PhD students at the medical faculty and is responsible for the clinical research. She is also a professor of nursing and leads a research group with 10 ongoing PhD students (3 as main supervisor, 7 as co-supervisor) and 2 post docs. She is also a heart failure nurse specialist at Linköping University hospital.
Her research focuses on developing interventions for rehabilitation and psycho-educational support to persons with long-term cardiac illness and their families. At present her research studies focus on evaluating and implementing eHealth tools to support self-care and involves: (1) interventions using tele-rehabilitation and exergaming to improve physical activity in vulnerable and frail patients with cardiac disease, (2) evaluations of different types of multidisciplinary disease management programs, (3) interventions to support family members/caregivers using eHealth, and (4) development of patient reported outcome measures (PROM) to assess self-care, quality of life, perceived control, symptoms, bodily concerns, continuity of care and participation in care.
She has published more than 300 scientific papers in peer-review journals, including research articles, systematic reviews, state-of-the-art papers, editorials, and international guidelines.
Anna Strömberg has long experience of international research collaboration working mainly with researchers in the US, and many countries in Europe, but also with Asia and Australia.
Find Anna online:
https://liu.se/en/employee/annst40
Read Anna’s Research:
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=vksxtC4AAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
Anna is reading:
1) Stacken av Annika Norlin (will be available in English translation spring 2025)
2) 1793 The wolf and the watchman by Nicklas Natt och Day (In English and Swedish)
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