General practitioner Steffen Bové, working at the Älvpraktikens care center in Kungälv, has received the award “General Practitioner of the Year” at the School of Public Health and Community Medicine at the Institute of Medicine. The award is given to one of the general practitioners who participates practically in the doctors’ basic training. The selection group (members from both the University of Gothenburg and the Region Västra Götaland) chose from several submitted proposals. The central selection criteria for being nominated were: Good knowledge of general medicine, striving for availability and continuity in the work, demonstrating a humane attitude and emphasizing the patient’s own story.

The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) has recently awarded 14 grants from their program Advancing Imaging Through Collaborative Projects, and the Centre for Cellular Imaging (CCI) is partner in two of the grants. One is received through the Network of European Bioimage Analysts, and the second through Correlated Multimodal Imaging Network. Julia Fernández-Rodríguez, head of CCI, is co-PI for the projects. The purpose of the projects is to strengthen the profession of Bioimage Analyst, and to add more resources and knowledge to local research support. The projects harness the power of multimodal imaging from basic research to clinical diagnostics, facilitating access and training the next generation of researchers. Read further on Core Facilities website.

As part of the city’s anniversary effort Årsrika Gothenburg, the play Var är min man? (‘Where is my husband?’) new premiere at Stadsteaterns Lilla Scen. In the play, Marie Delleskog plays a woman in her 60s, whose husband suffers from Alzheimer’s. After each performance, Ingmar Skoog, senior physician, professor of psychiatry at the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg and director of the Center for Aging and Health, AgeCap, will give a short lecture. The play will be performed (in Swedish) on February 10, 11, 23 and 24. Read more: https://stadsteatern.goteborg.se/pa-scen/2022-2023/var-ar-min-man/

In the spring of 2023, the university will introduce the option to switch on multi-factor authentication on your GU-account. This method for logging into a user account uses two steps to verify that it is the right person logging in. When you activate multi-factor authentication on the account, you need to verify your login to certain services within Microsoft 365 when you connect from an external network, for example when working remotely. This applies, among other things, when you log in to the email or to storage areas within the productivity platform. Read further on the Staff Portal.

As a government authority, the University of Gothenburg has received a government mission to take energy-saving measures. Employees have been asked to save electricity, and the university’s campus managers have, in dialogue with deans and heads, discussed what measures are possible to take, for example led lighting or no lighting before Christmas and removed electric radiators. Another example is the optimization of the ventilation in Akademiska Hus’ premises, which reduced electricity consumption by 25,000 kWh a month, equivalent to the consumption of a normal-sized villa for a year. Read a longer article on Medarbetarportalen (Swedish).

The Elderly Research Council was established in 2019 with the aim of promoting dialogue between the government and researchers in the field of the elderly. The Elderly Research Council provides the government the opportunity to gather facts and opinions regarding policy development in priority issues and inform itself about current and relevant research. Ingmar Skoog is a professor of psychiatry at the University of Gothenburg, and one of 15 members of the Elderly Research Council. Read more in the government’s press release (available in Swedish only).

The Center for Health Governance, the joint venture of Sahlgrenska Academy and the School of Business, Economics and Law, will be officially inaugurated during the afternoon of Tuesday, March 14, 2023. The inauguration will take place in Swedish at the School of Business, Economics and Law, and no registration is required. The work within the center is already underway – with collaborations and research projects started in six focus areas: Medical technologies, digitization and AI, governance and reimbursement models, standardized care processes, equal health and health and sustainable working life. Read more on the centre’s website: https://www.gu.se/en/health-governance