Eero Kajantie#

Membership Number:6895
Membership type:ORDINARY
Section:CLINICAL & VETERINARY SCIENCE
Elected:2024
Main Country of Residence:FINLAND
Homepage(s):https://www.oulu.fi/en/researchers/eero-kajantie
ORCID:0000-0001-7081-8391


Present and Previous Positions
  • 2019 - present Professor of Lifecourse Medicine, Clinical Medicine Research Unit, University of Oulu (50%), Finland
  • 2015 - present Team Leader / Research Manager, Population Health Unit, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (from 2019 on 50%, joint position with U Oulu Professorship above), Finland
  • 2018 - present Guest Professor of Pediatrics, Department of Clinical Medicine, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
  • 2013 - present honorary expert position in research, Oulu University Hospital, Finland
  • 2009 - 2015, Academy Research Fellow (competitive 3rd stage research career post funded by Academy of Finland), National Institute for Health and Welfare THL, Finland
  • 2004 - 2009, Postdoctoral Fellow (competitive 2nd stage research career post funded by Academy of Finland), National Public Health Institute KTL, Finland
  • 2003 Postdoctoral Fellow, Environmental Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton, UK (hosts: David Barker/David Phillips)
  • 1998 - 2003, Doctoral Student, Department of Pediatrics, University of Helsinki, Finland
  • 1992 - 2005 (periods) Clinical specialty training in Pediatrics (1998) and Clinical Genetics(2005), Helsinki University Hospital, Finland
  • 1998 - present Various part-time clinical posts as Consultant in Pediatrics in Finnish Hospitals

Fields of Scholarship
  • Developmental origins of health and disease
  • Secondary use of administrative and other real-world data in medical research
  • Lifelong health after preterm birth
  • Maternal gestational diabetes and lifelong health of the offspring
  • Adults born preterm as a model to understand molecular and physiological mechanisms linking early life events with lifelong health
  • Endocrine programming
  • Maternal and child health in low-resource settings

Honours and Awards
  • 2021 Adults Born Preterm International Collaboration, head of expert group on recommendation on common core assessments in follow-up studies of adults born preterm
  • 2021 Finnish Medical Society Duodecim, Current care guidelines on hypertension in pregnancy and pre-eclampsia expert group
  • 2019 Preemie influencer of the year, by Finnish Association of Preterm Babies' Parents
  • 2018 EFCNI European Foundation for the Care of Newborn Infants, European standards of care for newborn health expert group
  • 2015 US National Institutes of Health Multidisciplinary expert group on adults born preterm
  • 2015 Official representative of Finland at WHO European Ministerial Conference on Life-course Approach in Health 2020
  • 2012 External evaluation of research and doctoral training at U Helsinki: our research community (Kajantie/ Eriksson/Räikkönen) was ranked among the 9 top of 58 evaluated communities
  • 2011 PhD thesis of Dr Hovi, supervised by me, received the University of Helsinki thesis award (awarded to 3 of >400 doctoral theses) and the Finnish Medical Journal thesis award (to 1 of >300 medical theses in Finland).

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