Jenny Theorell-Haglow

Jenny Theorell-Haglöw is an Associate Professor in respiratory sleep medicine at the Respiratory, Allergy and Sleep research group at the Department of Medical Sciences, Uppsala University, Sweden. Her research is mainly focused on epidemiological sleep and sleep apnea research with a special interest in the relation to different aspects of metabolism. After completion of her thesis in 2009, she was a research fellow at Uppsala University and later at the world-leading research center Woolcock Institute of Medical Research (WIMR) in Sydney, Australia. Her current research is within a cohort study collaboration studying risk of cancer in obstructive sleep apnea. She is also working within the population-based studies SHE (Sleep and health in women), MUSTACHE (Men in Uppsala; a STudy of Sleep, Apnea and Cardiometabolic Health), as well as SCAPIS (Swedish CArdioPulmonary bioImage Study), and the register research collaboration DISCOVERY (Course of DISease In patients reported to the Swedish CPAP Oxygen and VEntilator RegistrY). In addition to her research she works half-time as senior nurse at the Sleep Apnea Clinic at the Uppsala University Hospital with OSA diagnostics and sleep apnea treatment. She is also a steering committee member within Svenska sömnapnéregistret (SESAR) and a board member of the Swedish sleep research society.