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Dr Fredrik PETERSSON
MD, PhD
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Dr Fredrik Petersson is a Senior Consultant at the Department of Pathology, National University Health System. He graduated from Lund University, Sweden in 1992 with M.D. and received his M.D. licence from the Swedish Board of Health in 1994. Thereafter, he trained in Histopathology at the Department of Pathology, Ryhov Hospital, Sweden and received his specialist qualification in Histopathology from the Swedish National Board of Health in 1999. In 2004, he received his Ph.D in pathology from Linköping University, Sweden.
Dr Petersson has broad research interests that include head and neck, gastrointestinal, testicular and skin pathology. He has published 35 articles in peer-reviewed international journals in collaboration with research institutions in Europe and the USA and is involved in several ongoing collaborative research projects with European and Scandinavian institutions. He has also participated in European scientific conferences, in the role of lecturer, expert panel member and course organizer.
Prior to joining NUHS in 2009, Dr Petersson spent 3 years a senior consultant at the Department of Pathology, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden. In 2008, he was a Clinical Observer and Researcher at the Department of Pathology, MD Anderson Cancer Center, University of Texas, Houston, USA. Thereafter, he spent half a year pursuing his research interests as Visiting Associate Professor at Sikl´s Department of Pathology, Charles University Hospital, Plzen, Czech Republic.
