Ingrid Söderback

Dr Med, Associate Professor, OT/L

My Curriculum Vitae

PROFILE:

 Associate Professor of Occupational Therapy and Rehabilitation and Doctor of Medical Science and Occupational Therapist based in Sweden. In addition, a career holding over twenty years of experience as associated lecturer and now lecturer emeriti at the Department of Publish Health and Caring Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden. 

Following skills describe me well:

·        Enterprising, curious, ambitious, like to accept new challenges

·        Over 40 years as clinician, scientist, teacher, tutor and editor.

·        Ability to patiently perform initiated projects.      

                                   

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES:

 OCCUPATIONAL THERAPIST

  • Stockholm hospitals 1968 – 1990, of this 14 years affiliation at the Rehabilitation Clinic Danderyd Hospital.

 COUNSELLING CONDUCTOR IN CLINICAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT 

  • Clinic of Rehabilitation Medicine, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm,

 SCIENTIST

  • Karolinska Institute and the Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden, 1987 – 1996.
  • Winning awards of the Swedish Society of Medicine, the Diploma for excellent scientific and pedagogical presentation 1994, 2000.
  • Twenty-two winning of Swedish research awards with financing 1980 – 2000.
  • Member of the board for winning of the Philosophic Doctoral Degree in Medical Science at the Karolinska Institute, 1995 and Faculty of Medicine, Umeå, Sweden, 1999.

UNIVERSITY LECTURING

  • Stockholm University Colleges of Health Sciences, part time, 1972-1996.
  • Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, 1988 – 1996.
  • Centre of Caring Sciences, now Department of Public Health and Caring Sciences Uppsala University, 1994 – 2001.

EDITORIAL COMMISSIONS

  • Work. A Journal of Prevention, Assessment and Rehabilitation, ISO Press. Holland.1993 - Continue
  • Occupation, Participation and Health. An Occupational Therapy Journal of Research. 2002 – 2008.
  • Occupational Therapy International. Whurr Publisher. Now: Wiley InterScience. 1992 - 1996.
  • Associate editor: Occupational Therapy International. Wiley InterScience. 1996 - 2008.
  • Editor of the International Handbook of Occupational Therapy Interventions, Springer, 2009.
  • At present: Associate Editor of Encyclopedia of Behavioral Medicine, Springer, expected publishing 2011.

GRADUATES:

  • Occupational Therapist, Umeå Professional School, Sweden, 1968.
  • Teacher in Occupational Therapy, Health and Caring, and graduate courses in pedagogic, Stockholm, Sweden, 1971, 1981, 1983.
  • Doctor in Medical Science, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden 1988.
  • Associate Professor in Occupational Therapy and Rehabilitation Medicine, appointed to the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden 1994 – for life.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

Publications: 46 articles in international scientific journals, proceedings, abstracts, posters between the years of 1986 – 2008, author and co-author of five Swedish and two English books in Occupational Therapy and Rehabilitation (total 111 works). A complete list is available on demand.

 

Winning awards: Eleven scientific awards for accomplishing research. Dr Söderback is a subject of biographical record on Marquis Who's is Who in Medical and Health Care Eds. 2004 - 2006.

 

Tutoring: Dr. Söderback has tutored the following examinations; Med.lic. Gunvor Kratz, 1996, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm; Dr.Med.Sci. Maria Müllersdorf, 2001, Uppsala University, Uppsala; Dr.Med.Sci. Marie-Louise Schult, 2002, Uppsala University, Uppsala plus master thesis.


Clinical work:  Occupational therapist and responsible for research and subject development at Stockholm hospitals 1968 – 1990, of this 14 years affiliation at the Rehabilitation Clinic Danderyd Hospital.

Lecturer emeriti, Department of Public Health and Caring Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, 2007 at least until 2013.

Chairperson at three occupational therapy congresses.
Invited key-note Speaker at two medical rehabilitation congresses.
Invited international guest professor to the International Symposium on Occupational Therapy Research, Hospital Das Clínicas Da Faculdade De Medicina Da Universidade De São Paulo, August 27, 28, 2010.

References are available upon demand.