Professor Kristina Gemzell-Danielsson

Kristina Gemzell Danielsson is professor, and Chair of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, Karolinska Institutet (KI) and senior consultant at the Karolinska University Hospital. She is a member of the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institutet, which is responsible for the Nobel Price in Physiology or Medicine. She is head of the research group at the WHO collaborating centre for Research and Research training in Human Reproduction at KI. She is Honorary Clinical Professor at Hong Kong University, Riga Stradins University, and Honorary fellow FSRH, RCOG, UK. She is a member of the International Committee for contraceptive research (ICCR), Population Council, member of the Swedish Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology’s (SFOGs) scientific committee, past president of the European Society of Contraception and Reproductive Health, and FIAPAC, and member of FIGO council.
Her research is translational (experimental, clinical trials and implementation; “from bench-to bed-to the hands of women”) with a focus on reproductive medicine (endometrial function, embryo implantation, comprehensive abortion care, emergency contraception and development of new contraceptive technology and new methods for assisted reproduction) and Global Health. She is part of the team that innovated medical abortion and published the first article on telemedicine abortion. She is the author of more than 300 scientific publications. She initiated and participated in the development of the FIGO misoprostol guidelines. In 2012 she was awarded with the FIGO Award in Recognition of Women Obstetricians/Gynaecologists.