Professor Dr. Maria Hägglund

Biography

Maria Hägglund is a professor of implementation science specializing in digital health at Uppsala University, where she also teaches in the Bachelor’s Programme in Biomedical Engineering. Her current research at the Uppsala MedTech Science & Innovation Centre focuses on user-centered systems that support collaboration and patient empowerment. She was a 2019/2020 Keane OpenNotes Scholar and served as a visiting lecturer in medicine at Harvard Medical School. Maria is a member of the DOME research consortium, exploring the impact of patients' access to electronic health records, including notes from the national Swedish patient portal. She chairs the Swedish Medical Informatics Association and represented Sweden at the International Medical Informatics Association general assembly from 2020 to 2022. Additionally, she leads the PATH group, which focuses on participatory eHealth and health data research.

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