Kerstin Brismar

Kerstin Brismar is a professor at the Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, the Rolf Luft Research Center for Diabetes and Endocrinology at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm. She is a specialist in endocrinology and diabetes and in general internal medicine. Brismar has worked clinically as a doctor since being certified in 1971 and worked at the Clinic for Endocrinology and Diabetes at Karolinska University Hospital from 1973 to 2012. Since her retirement from the hospital in 2012, she has worked mostly as a specialist doctor in endocrinology, diabetes and general internal medicine in her Stockholm-based private practice. Brismar has also published more than 350 scientific publications in international journals and has communicated her knowledge about diabetes, including the importance of different diets for our health, on TV and radio, in seminars, conferences, newspapers and popular science books.