Christina Carlander

Christina Carlander is a Senior Consultant of Infectious Diseases at the Department of Infectious Diseases at Karolinska University Hospital. She is sub specialized in HIV care.

Carlander is also an Assocate professor (docent in Swedish) and Team leader of Team HIV comorbidity in Professor Sönnerborgs group at the Department of Medicine Huddinge, Unit of Infectious Diseases and Dermatology at KI. She is also affiliated to the Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics at KI, Solna. 

Since 2021 Christina Carlander is the Director of the National Quality Register of HIV (InfCareHIV).

Carlander´s research is focused on epidemiological register-based studies, mainly on comorbidity in people living with HIV.

Through linking of the Swedish National HIV Register InfCareHIV with other nationwide demographic and health registers Team HIV Comorbidity collect population-based data on an individual level to study time-trends, prediction-models, mortality rates and risk factors of comorbidity in people living with and without HIV.

At KI she collaborates with among others

Outside of KI Carlander has current collaborations with among others Professor Magnus Gisslén and Ass Professor Aylin Yilmaz at Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Professor Magnus Boman at KTH and Dr Philippe Wagner and Olof Elvstam at Lund University.

Carlander is also involved in three international multi-cohort studies

Current projects on comorbidity are:

1. Cancer screening and cancer prevention: machine-learning based prediction modeling.
2. HPV &
3. HIV: HPV-related cancer in men by HIV-status
4. biomarkers and prediction modeling
5. COVID-19 &
6. HIV: Incidence, severity, mortality, and secondary effects of COVID-19 in Sweden by HIV- status
7. Immunological non-responders: Epidemiology, comorbidity, and mortality in people with HIV, with particular focus on immunological non-responders
8. Lymphoma &
9. HIV: Nation-wide study of the incidence, risk, and survival of lymphoma-diagnosis by HIV-status

PRESENT ASSIGNMENTS

1. Teacher at the Medical Education Program, Infectious Disease Course, KI
2. Teacher at resident course of Tuberculosis (SK kurs)
3. Teacher at resident course of Tropical Medicine

TEACHING DISTINCTIONS 

FORMER ASSIGNMENTS

• 2022–2023. SPUR-inspector. Assessment and inspection of infectious diseases specialist training programmes (Specialistutbildningsrådet)
• 2019-2022 Teacher at the Master program of Global Health, KI
• 2016-2021 Director of studies of residents of Infectious Diseases (ST-läkare), Dep of Infectious Diseases Västerås, Västmanland County Hospital
• 2018–2021 Director of studies of resident course in Scientific Methods (SK kurs i Vetenskapsmetodik), Centre for Clinical Research Västerås,
  Uppsala University

Main supervisor of Medical Student Exam Projects (30 hp)

• 2023 Christian Boytchev "HIV &
• post-COVID-19 condition"
• 2023 Åsa Adler, "Prevalence and odds of treatment failure in people living with HIV in Sweden with particular focus on migrants"
• 2023 Annika Eriksson, "AIDS in the Swedish HIV cohort: register based study with follow-up since 1983"
• 2022. Sofia Dinh, “Incidence and risk of Kaposi sarcoma in Sweden by HIV status”
• 2022. Sophie Ericsson, “Incidence and risk of lung cancer in Sweden by HIV status”
• 2021. Isabela Möller, “Severe COVID-19 in people living with and without HIV”

Main supervisor of other Master projects

• 2023 Josefin Nilsson, New York University