Töres Theorell#
Membership Number: | 2055 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Section: | THE HUMAN MIND AND ITS COMPLEXITY |
Elected: | 2000 |
Main Country of Residence: | SWEDEN |
Homepage(s): | http://www.stressforskning.su.se/english/about-us/contact/staff-members/t%C3%B6res-theorell-1.69654 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2007- Retired scientific consulting professor, Institute for Stress Research, Stockholm University, and Karolinska Institute
- 1995-2006 Professor of Psychosocial Medicine at the Karolinska Institute and Director of the National Institute for Psychosocial Factors and Health
- 1980-1995 Professor of Clinical Care Research at the National Institute for Psychosocial Factors and Health and assistant chief physician, Department of Occupational Health, Karolinska Hospital
- 1978-1980 Assistant chief physician, Department of Social Medicine, Huddinge, Karolinska Institute
- 1974-1978 Researcher at the Institute for Clinical Stress Research, Karolinska Institute
- 1973-1974 Scholarship Sweden America Foundation with professor Stewart Wolf, Marine Biomedical Institute, University of Texas at Galveston, Texas
- 1973 Assistant professor in internal medicine, Karolinska Institute
- 1971 PhD/MD Karolinska Institute, Stockholm
Fields of Scholarship
- Psychological stress
- Social epidemiology
- Occupational epidemiology
- Physiological stress mechanisms
- Cardiovascular stress mechanisms
- Stress endocrinology
- Intervention evaluation
- Music and stress
Honours and Awards
- American Psychological Association: Award for lifetime career, Stress and Work
- Fellow, European Society for Occupational Psychology
- Member of the Academia Europaea