Hans-Olov Adami#
Photo: Anders Ahlbom
| Membership Number: | 6605 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CLINICAL & VETERINARY SCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2023 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SWEDEN |
| ORCID: | 0000-0001-9592-5791 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2012 Professor Clinical Effectiveness Group, Institute of Health and Society, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- 2012 - 2017 Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston
- 2010 - 2012 Professor of Epidemiology (with tenure), Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston
- 2007 - 2011 Chair, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston
- 2007 - 2009 Visiting Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston
- 2006 - 2008 Visiting Professor, National University of Singapore
- 2005 - 2008 Professor of Cancer Epidemiology, Dept of Med Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm
- 1997 - 2005 Professor of Cancer Epidemiology and Chair Dept of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm
- 1992 - 2007 Adjunct Full professor of Epidemiology at Harvard University School of Public Health, Boston
- 1990 - 1997 Professor of Cancer Epidemiology, Uppsala University, Sweden
Fields of Scholarship
- Clinical cancer research
- Randomized control trials
- Cancer screening
- Cancer epidemiology
Honours and Awards
- 2011 Big Silver Medal from Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm
- 2011 Distinguished Professor Award, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm
- 2011 - 2015 Member Governing Board, The International Network for the Demographic Evaluation of Populations and Their Health in Developing Countries (INDEPTH)
- 2014 Member of the Scientific Strategic Committee, ARC Foundation, Paris, France
- 2010 - 2018 Member Governing Board European Academy of Cancer Sciences
- 2010 Honorary Doctor of Medicine, University of Iceland
- 2006 The Tore Andersson’s Prize for Epidemiologic Research
- 2007 Member of the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences
- 2001 Distinguished Visiting Lecturer, Harvard Center for Cancer Prevention
- 2000 Medal Academia Medica Wratislaviensis Polonia, Medical University of Wrocław, Poland
- 1998 The Jubilee Prize, Swedish Society of Medicine
- 1998 Honorary Doctor of Medicine, University of Athens, Greece
- 1998 - 2000 Member of the Nobel Committee
- 1998 - 2008 Member of the Nobel Assembly
- 1994 Member of the Royal Society of Sciences of Uppsala, Sweden
- 1991 Cutter Lecturer of Preventive Medicine at Harvard School of Public Health, Boston
