Dr. Ellenor Mittendorfer-Rutz

Dr. Ellenor Mittendorfer-Rutz is professor of insurance medicine at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, where she is also Head of the Division of Insurance Medicine and Acting Head of the Department of Clinical Neuroscience. She further holds a Guest professorship at the Medical University in Vienna.

Mittendorfer-Rutz is a board member of several international medical journals and research consortia. Her work responds to the complexity of research on insurance medicine by conducting interdisciplinary and translational research, which spans from etiologic and prognostic to prevention and treatment research. Due to the rising number of refugees to Sweden and other European countries, her research has a specific focus on transcultural aspects. Studies are primarily based on nation-wide registers applying cutting-edge epidemiological methodology.

Her work has led to several influential papers in high ranking medical journals such as The Lancet and JAMA Psychiatry.