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How do you design, plan and conduct a successful clinical study? This question was at the centre of a well-attended seminar on statistical and practical methods in clinical studies, jointly organised for researchers at Karolinska Institutet and within Region Stockholm.

Kristi Sidney Annerstedt is an Associate Professor in global health at Karolinska Institutet with a focus on health promotion and health equity. Kristi is an experienced mixed methods researcher with strong skills in epidemiological study design, process evaluations, and intervention acceptability. Kristi has had support from Clinicum.

George Awungafac is a PhD student at the Department of Medicine, Solna, and conducts research on global infections. George received support from an advisor at Clinicum and was given help with data analysis during his doctoral thesis.

In 2025, Clinicum and the Compliance and Data Office (CDO) conducted a pilot project in which researchers received in-depth support with both REDCap and statistical planning. The results provide a clearer picture of how researchers can best be equipped to create high-quality electronic case report forms (eCRFs) right from the start.

Anna Sandström is Associate Professor and researcher in the research group Reproductive, Perinatal and Pediatric Epidemiology at the Department of Medicine, Solna, Karolinska Institutet and work as an Obstetrician at Karolinska University Hospital, Solna. The overarching goal of the group’s research is to increase knowledge and promote evidence-based care for women and their children during pregnancy, childbirth, and the neonatal period.

Anna Stoltenberg is a statistician at the Department of Medicine, Solna, and an advisor in the Clinicum network.

Lina Davies is an Associate Professor and Senior Consultant, specialized in internal medicine and infectious diseases at the Department of Medicine, Solna, Karolinska Institutet.

Anna Schandl is a registered nurse and has worked in intensive care in the Stockholm Region for many years. She is an associate professor in nursing and research group leader in the research group for Perioperative Care and Intensive Care at Södersjukhuset. Anna works with data collected from regional and national cohort studies, but also with qualitative research; something she uses as an advisor within Clinicum's network.

Christina Carlander is a senior consultant in infectious diseases at Karolinska University Hospital, as well as Associate Professor and Group Leader at the Department of Medicine, Huddinge, Karolinska Institutet.

Magnus Boman is an AI professor at the Department of Medicine, Solna, at KI, and part of the AI@KI project – a strategic project initiated by KI's rector with the goal of collecting and describing all activities at KI related to artificial intelligence (AI). In addition, since 2023, Magnus has been involved in AI issues at MedTechLabs and as an advisor within Clinicum for research methodology involving machine learning.

Tahnee Marquardt is an advisor in Clinicum’s network and works as a Clinical Research Coordinator at the Compliance & Data Office at Karolinska Institutet. Tahnee provides support in areas such as REDCap, ethical issues, and the registration of clinical studies and trials.

Philip Lindner is a Clinicum advisor and Associate Professor in clinical psychology. He's also Head of the Digital Psychiatry Lab at the Centre for Psychiatry Research, and is working as a clinical psychologist at the Stockholm Centre for Dependency Disorders (Region Stockholm), where he’s the Head of Research and Development at the Maria Ungdom Clinic.

Meet Nick Tobin, lecturer, principal researcher and docent at the Department of Oncology and Pathology at KI. Nick teaches in the subject area of Bioinformatics, but also runs seminars on various aspects of cancer including its hallmarks and the utility of cancer gene expression signatures in a clinical setting. Nick is one of Clinicum's advisors within Bioinformatics.

Clinicum's popular lunch seminars are back this autumn with an expanded focus: in addition to health data, clinical trials will now also be a central theme. The background to this is that Clinicum is developing extended support in methodology related to clinical trials – an area where the need for advice is high.

Clinicum’s advisory service is now up and running again after the summer. The methodology support is aimed at researchers who are employed or affiliated with KI or Region Stockholm.

In the spring of 2024, an invitation was sent to researchers to participate in an evaluation of Clinicum's method support. Of all those who used the support, 7/10 were very satisfied and 9/10 would recommend it to a colleague. Some of the reasons for the satisfaction were that many people refer to a high level of competence and pedagogical ability of the methodological advisers, as well as the possibility of getting help quickly. Helpfulness, friendliness, and flexibility are also highlighted.

Professor Paul Dickman at the Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Karolinska Institutet is awarded the prize Statistical Promotor of the year from the Swedish Statistical Society (Svenska statistikfrämjandet).

On January 25, a method support day was organized by Clinicum to introduce researchers to the coordinated method support offered to researchers at KI and Region Stockholm. The meeting was held in the Sune Bergström Hall at Karolinska University Hospital.