Meet the organiser

Hannes Hagström
Hannes Hagström is a senior consultant in hepatology at the Karolinska University Hospital, and adjunct professor at Karolinska Institutet, Sweden’s largest medical university and the host institution for the Nobel prize in physiology or medicine. He leads a research group of approximately 20 researchers and clinicians with a focus on the epidemiology of liver diseases with a special focus on MASLD. The group has published some of the largest and most well-cited studies on the natural history of MASLD, and has established several large register-based cohorts in the field.