I am Professor of Biostatistics at the Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics (MEB) at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, where I’ve been employed since March 1999. My primary research interests are developing and applying statistical methods for population-based studies of cancer patient survival, particularly the estimation and modeling of relative/net survival. I also have general interests in epidemiology, particularly cancer epidemiology. I am deputy head of department and head of the MEB Biostatistics group.
PhD (Statistics), 1997
University of Newcastle, Australia
B.Math (honours class 1), 1992
University of Newcastle, Australia
I have taught courses in England and Italy each summer for over 15 years. The dates for 2024 have been decided, but the information in the links below are for the previous (2023) course occasions.
10-15 June 2024: I will join a faculty of five to teach a 1-week course on Statistical methods for population-based cancer survival analysis in Veneto, Italy, at the Summer School on Modern Methods on Biostatistics and Epidemiology.
15-19 July 2024: I will, once more, join the faculty for the course Cancer Survival: Principles, Methods and Applications at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.
I wrote a blog post comparing the courses at the Veneto summer school and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.
I have co-authored, with Enzo Coviello, Stata commands for estimating and modelling relative survival. Enzo is responsible for all of the nice code.
Some Stata tutorials, most of which are about survival analysis
SAS code for estimating and modelling relative survival. I wrote this code in the 1990s and have since moved from SAS to Stata, so this code is not maintained.
Some SAS tips and tricks (primarily on data management)
My publication list can be found in my CV, researcher ID, PubMed, or Google scholar. Following are some selected publications.