Monika Fagevik Olsén is a new professor in physiotherapy

Akademiliv congratulates Monika Fagevik Olsén on the professorship in physiotherapy. She has previously been assigned as adjunct, both as lecturer and professor, and has also worked as a teacher part-time. Monika Fagevik Olsén has long been employed as a physiotherapist at Sahlgrenska University Hospital. After she defended her doctoral thesis in surgery in 1998, she has continued to combine research with clinical practice. Monika Fagevik Olsén is a dual specialist and has also researched pulmonary medicine and gynaecology, obstetrics and urology. In pulmonary medicine, she has mainly focused on the effects of different treatment methods and the physiological background to these effects. In the field of gynaecology, obstetrics and urology, Monika has, among other things, developed tests for pregnancy-related pelvic pain.