Carol Tishelman

Carol Tishelman was born and educated as a Registered Nurse at the University of Pennsylvania in the US, but has lived in Sweden for > 40 years. She received her PhD in 1993, became full Professor of Nursing at Karolinska Institutet (KI) in 2006, and now holds a Chair in Innovative Care, integrating health and social care. This position is at KI’s Dept of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, at the Centre for Healthcare Ethics. Carol Tishelman is also employed at the Stockholm Health Care Services (all regional non-acute hospital care). Carol has over 160 published peer-reviewed articles in well-renowned international journals, as well as a wide variety of other publications, and has successfully supervised over 20 PhD students.