Elinder, Carl-gustaf

Biography

 Adjunct Professor Carl-Gustaf Elinder (CGE) is interested in Nephrology, epidemiology and environmental issues. Started as a young bird watchers and medical student at Karolinska Institute in the 1970s to study heavy metal accumulation in the body caused by cadmium and health effects. Went on to become occupational and environmental medical student and taught and examined the various environmental and occupational exposures relevant to disease and health. Eventually became professor of occupational medicine in 1985. Then made a bit of a shift, and began to train as a kidney medicine. The research area was then renal epidemiology and toxicology. After nearly 10 years as Head of the Department of Renal medicine at Karolinska University Hospital CGE in 2010 became head of the Department for evidence-based medicine at the Stockholm county Health Care Administration and adjunct professor of Nephrology.

Research Interest

 Renal Epidemology and toxicology