Jonas F. Ludvigsson

Present positions
- Professor, Dept of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet
- Senior Physician (överläkare), Dept Pediatrics, Örebro University Hospital
- Adjunct professor, Columbia University, New York, USA
- Scientific advisor in pediatrics, Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare
- Scientific secretary of the Swedish Society of Medicine

Previous positions
- Chairman of the Swedish Paediatric Society, 2014-16
- Chairman of the Swedish Society of Epidemiology, 2011-14

Further information
- Member of the Editorial Board of the European J Epidemiology
- Member of the International editorial board of Alimentary pharmacology and therapeutics
- Member of the International editorial board of Clinical Epidemiology

Education
- 1995. MD. Linköping University, Sweden
- 2001. PhD. Medicine. Linköping-Örebro
- 2005. Docent (associate professor), Örebro University Hospital
- 2012. Fulbright Research Scholar, Mayo Clinic, US

Academic honours, awards and prizes
- The Jubilee Prize, awarded by the Swedish Society of Medicine, 2022
- Alvarenga Prize for best medical publication by Swedish author, awarded by the Swedish Society of Medicine, 2019.
- Adjunct professor, Columbia University, 2016-
- Honorary professor at the School of Medicine at the Nottingham University, UK, 2015-2021
- Alumnus of the year, 2013, Linköping University
- "Rising star in gastroenterology", Europe, 2010. Awarded by ASNEMGE - The European Gastroenterology Association.

Ongoing research: Celiac disease, Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), but also other gastroenterology. I am the coordinator of one of the world's largest gastrointestinal cohort studies: ESPRESSO (Epidemiology Strengthened by histoPathology Reports in Sweden), where we study various liver diseases, IBS, microscopic colitis, colorectal cancer, and celiac disease etc. I also do pediatric research, and have written numerous papers on Swedish National Health Registers.

Ludvigsson regularly reviews literature in Swedish press and proclaimed LeClezio’s ”The African” a classic, two years before the author was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature. Ludvigsson lives in a small village, between Örebro and Karlskoga in Sweden.