Helena Forsblad D’elia is now Professor of Rheumatology

Akademiliv congratulates Helena Forsblad d’Elia on her professorship in rheumatology, which she combines with her position as chief physician at SU. She is researching inflammatory rheumatic back disease, so-called axial spondylarthritis (axSpA), a group of diseases that also to varying degrees affect organs outside the musculoskeletal system (so-called EAM) and other comorbidities. Helena Forsblad d’Elia has recently formed the multidisciplinary research group SPARG, which, with the help of biomarkers, clinical and demographic parameters, identifies factors that are important for the severity of the disease, EAM and comorbidity. The research is conducted with the help of well-characterized patient cohorts and national registers. Helena Forsblad d’Elia is responsible for term 6, Internal Medicine in the new medical program.