The Nordic study team

Jeanette Falck Winther, Professor, Consultant, MD, DMSc (Overall Principal Investigator, Team Leader for Denmark)

Head of Research Childhood Cancer Group, Danish Cancer Institute, Strandboulevarden 49, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
Phone: +45 35 25 76 70 Cell phone +45 20 11 27 71
E-mail: jeanette@cancer.dk

Jeanette Falck Winther is a Consultant in the Survivorship Unit at the Danish Cancer Instituter and the head of the Childhood Cancer Survivorship (CCS) Research Group. She is holding the advanced DrMedSci degree (DMSc) and is professor in childhood cancer at Aarhus University, Faculty of Health. For more than a decade her research has focused on epidemiological studies of the late effects of cancer treatment in survivors of childhood and young adult cancer and their offspring, including also cellular and molecular studies based on biological specimens from patients and their families for genetic evaluations. She has extensive experience in using large-scale record linkage techniques with national health outcome registers in nationwide population-based settings. She is principal investigator on the Adult Life after Childhood Cancer in Scandinavia (ALiCCS) research program on late effects in Nordic children with cancer and participates in the PanCareSurFup and PanCareLIFE studies on late effects of childhood cancer in an European setting.

Nermin M.M. Ghith, Ph.D. (Scientific Coordinator of Research Program)

Childhood Cancer Group, Danish Cancer Institute, Strandboulevarden 49, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
Phone: +45 35 25 76 16
E-mail: neg@cancer.dk 

Nermin M.M. Ghith is a postdoctoral researcher in the Childhood Cancer Survivorship Research Group at the Danish Cancer Institute. 

Maria Feychting, Professor, Ph.D. (Team Leader for Sweden)

Head, Unit of Epidemiology, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Instituttet, Box 210, Nobels väg 13, 171 77 Stockholm, Sweden
Tel. +46 8 524 87465 Cell phone +46 706227465
E-mail: Maria.Feychting@ki.se

Maria Feychting is Professor of Epidemiology, with basic education in social sciences. She has a longstanding interest in cancer epidemiology, in particular childhood cancer etiology, and more recently also research investigating factors of importance for survival after cancer diagnosis, and long-term consequences of disease. She has vast experience of research utilizing the Swedish health data and administrative registers. She has worked in many projects where data from several countries have been combined, including also register data from Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Norway. This have been cancer incidence trend studies, nested case-control studies purely based on register data, and case-control and cohort studies with questionnaire data combined with data from registers.

Mats Talbäck, Ph.D.

Unit of Epidemiology, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, PO Box 210, Nobels väg 13, 171 77 Stockholm, Sweden
Phone +46 8 524 86 917
E-mail: mats.talback@ki.se

Mats Talbäck is a statistician with a PhD in epidemiology and over 20 years’ experience in population based register research. Has mainly been working with time to event data and analysis.

Hanna Mogensen, MSc, Ph.D. student

Unit of Epidemiology, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, PO Box 210, Nobels väg 13, 171 77 Stockholm, Sweden
Phone +46 73 712 15 60
E-mail: hanna.mogensen@ki.se

Hanna Mogensen is a Ph.D-student in Epidemiology at the Unit of Epidemiology, Institute of Environmental Medicine at Karolinska Institutet, Sweden, and registered nurse. She has a master’s degree in Public Health Epidemiology and clinically she has mainly worked with oncology and ear, nose and throat care. Her epidemiological research focuses on socioeconomic and sociodemographic factors in childhood cancer survival, as well as socioeconomic consequences of childhood cancer, using registry data.

Laura Madanat-Harjuoja, MD, Adjunct Professor (Team Leader for Finland)

Finnish Cancer Registry, Cancer Society of Finland, Unioninkatu 22, 00130 Helsinki, Finland
Mobile phone +358 40 9106336 
E-mail: laura.madanat@cancer.fi

Laura Madanat-Harjuoja is a specialist in public health and a resident in pediatrics at the Helsinki Children's Hospital. Laura is an adjunct professor in pediatric hematology and oncology at Helsinki University. Her research for the past 12 years has focused on late effects of childhood cancer. Current research interests lie in the socioeconomic impacts of childhood cancer and etiology of childhood cancer. 

Nea Malila, Professor, MD, Ph.D.

Director of the Finnish Cancer Registry, Cancer Society of Finland, Unioninkatu 22, 00130 Helsinki, Finland
Tel: +358 9 135 331 Mobile phone +358 50 3055730
E-mail: nea.malila@cancer.fi

Nea Malila is a medical doctor with PhD on epidemiology and research areas on cancer prevention (the ATBC study), cancer screening programmes and early onset cancer. Director of the Finnish Cancer Registry and professor of cancer epidemiology, 20%, University of Tampere, Faculty of Social Sciences.

Anniina Tolkkinen, MD, Medical scientist, Ph.D. student

Finnish Cancer Registry, Cancer Society of Finland, Unioninkatu 22, 00130 Helsinki, Finland
Phone: +385 9 135 331
E-mail: anniina.tolkkinen@cancer.fi

Anniina Tolkkinen is a medical Doctor specializing in Pediatrics. She started her PhD studies in the Finnish Cancer Registry January 2016. Her research interests are long-term consequences of childhood cancer.

Former participants of the Nordic study team:

Friederike Erdmann, Ph.D., MPH (Former Scientific Coordinator of Research Program)

Friederike Erdmann was a postdoctoral scientist in the Childhood Cancer Survivorship Research Group at the Danish Cancer Institute and a visiting scientist in the Section of Environment and Radiation at the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) in Lyon. Her research focuses on cancer epidemiology, with a particular interest in childhood cancer and the relationship with social, family and prenatal factors. She has vast experience of register-based studies, as well as extensive experience in establishing, coordinating and participating in international epidemiological research projects.

Line Elmerdahl Frederiksen, Ph.D., MSc Public health

Line Elmerdahl Frederiksen was a PhD student in the Childhood Cancer Survivorship Research Group at the Danish Cancer Institute. Her epidemiological research focused on socioeconomic circumstances in childhood cancer survivors from Nordic countries using population-based registry data and with a particular interest in work life and parenthood. She has a Master and PhD degree in Public Health and has research experience in reproductive health.

Camilla Pedersen, Ph.D., MSc Public health

Camilla Pedersen was a postdoctoral researcher in the Childhood Cancer Survivorship Research Group at the Danish Cancer Institute. Camilla Pedersen had several years of experience within cancer epidemiology. Her research mainly focused on the etiology of childhood cancer, and on late effects after childhood cancer especially late effects in survivors of childhood malignant bone tumours. 

Luzius Mader, Ph.D., MSc

Luzius Mader was a postdoctoral researcher in the Childhood Cancer Survivorship Research Group at the Danish Cancer Institute. Luzius Mader holds a PhD in Health Sciences. His research focused on long-term socio-economic consequences after childhood, adolescent and young adult cancer using a family perspective. He was particularly interested in identifying socio-demographic and cancer-related risk factors for adverse socioeconomic consequences in the long-term. 

Andrea Bautz, Datamanager

Andrea Bautz was a data manager in the Childhood Cancer Survivorship Research Group at the Danish Cancer Institute. She was working with childhood cancer related data and health registry data in epidemiology for more than 25 years.