Carol Tishelman#
| Membership Number: | 4913 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CLINICAL & VETERINARY SCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2019 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SWEDEN |
| Homepage(s): | https://ki.se/en/people/cartis |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-4161-0342 |
| Twitter: | @cptish |
| Facebook: | https://www.facebook.com/carol.tishelman |
| Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/carol-Tishelman |
Present and Previous Positions
- *2014 Endowed chair, Investor Professor of Innovative Care, Karolinska Institutet, Dept of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, Division of Innovative Care Research.
- *2018 - present SKA DU ANGE PROCENT FÖR ALLA SOM DU HAR/HAFT SAMTIDIGT OCKSÅ, ANNARS KANSKE DET SER KONSTIGT UT Professor, Center for Health Economics, Informatics and Health Care Research, Stockholm Health Care Services, i.e. responsible for all health care outside acute care hospitals in the Stockholm health care region. I am presently on leave of absence part-time from this position.
- *2018 - present 20% Professor at the Centre for Rural Medicine, Storuman, Sweden
- *2015 - 2021 Visiting professor, Unit of Innovation and Leadership, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Southampton, UK
- *2014 - 2018 25% University Nurse with responsibility for strategic health care innovation at the Department of Development and Innovation, Karolinska University Hospital
- *2007 - 2014 Full professor of Nursing at Karolinska Institutet, Dept of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, Medical Management Centre
- *2011 - 2013 10% FTE Full Professor, Division of Nursing and Midwifery, Faculty of Health Sciences, LaTrobe University, Victoria Australia (affiliated in other positions from 2004-2007 (adj. Assoc. Prof) and 2008-2011 (adj. Full Professor)
- * 2013 Jan - 2014 Feb 10% FTE Full Professor, University of Manchester, School of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work (2009-2012 Honorary Prof; 20% FTE Full Professor 2007-2009)
- *2000 - 2013 Researcher, Research & Development Unit Stockholms Sjukhem (Sweden's largest palliative care facility, with 3 years as associate head of unit)
- *1998 - 2007 Different positions at the Department of Nursing, Karolinska Institutet (including full prof 2006 - 2007, senior lecturer 1998 - 2006; Deputy head of department 2002-2004 and Dean for post-graduate education 1999-2000)
Fields of Scholarship
- End-of-life research
- Participatory and Action research
- Mixed methods research
- Health promotion
- Nursing research
- Social Innovation
- Cancer research (primarily psychosocial, symptom, secondary prevention)
- Public health, particularly new public health
Honours and Awards
- 2016 Recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award of the European Oncology Nursing Society. The motivation reads: “This award is made from the Executive Board and marks an outstanding personal and professional contribution made by an individual to the field of Oncology Nursing. The award is given to Carol Tishelman to acknowledge her role as a key figure in cancer care and for her contribution and devotion to the development of cancer nursing practice in her own country and internationally.”
- 2008 Recipient of the Mebius Kramer Lecturer award. The Mebius Kramer Lecture was initiated in 1992 on the occasion of the retirement of prof dr Mebius Kramer, who was dean of the Academic Medical Hospital at Utrecht. Mebius Kramer lectures are given by distinguished nursing scientists who have made important contributions to and whose work has led to new and significant insights for nursing science.
- 2003 Recipient of “Birgitta Bloms” award from Swedish Heart and Lung Foundation
- As undergraduate, graduated Summa cum laude, on Dean’s list for achievement, and was 1979 Recipient of Sigma Theta Tau Xi Chapter Award “Outstanding Scholarship and Merit” for undergraduate nursing students
