Sleep Disorders and Medicine

Biography

Dr Markström is since 2009 working as an Associate Professor and Senior Consultant at the Centre of Sleep and Breathing at Uppsala University Hospital, Sweden. She works full time with taking care of diagnostics in persons with insomnia, parasomnia, circadian rhythm disorders, hypersomnia, narcolepsy and people with breathing sleep disorders. She works as a consultant at the Department of Women's and Children's Health at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden and is a national expert in initiating CPAP and home mechanical ventilation in children. Her research interests lie in the fields of sleep, particularly in the treatment of insomnia, circadian rhythm disorders, concrete delayed sleep phase disorder and sleep breathing disorder. During the years 1999 to 2009 she was Head of the National Respiratory Centre, Karolinska Institutet Dr Markström got her Authorization to practice medicine (The Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare) in 1985. She began her career as an Anaesthetist in 1992 and obtained a PhD in Anaesthesiology five years later. In 1995 she became a specialist in Ear, Nose and Throat Medicine at Uppsala University and she is, since 2005, an Associate Professor in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care medicine at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm Sweden.

Research Interest

insomnia, parasomnia, circadian rhythm disorders, hypersomnia, narcolepsy