Linda Vixner

Personlig presentation av Linda Vixner

Senior Lecturer Medical Sciences
Department of Medical Sciences School of Health and Welfare
Associate Professor Medical Sciences
Department of Medical Sciences School of Health and Welfare

As dean and chair of the University Faculty Board, I work broadly with quality assurance of education and research. My own teaching and research primarily focus on the field of chronic pain and pain rehabilitation

Boards

Chairperson in University Education and Research Board

Background

I gained my degree in physiotherapy from Linköping University in 1997. Thereafter i worked in clinic as a physiotherapist until 2007 when I started teaching at Dalarna University. I defended my PhD in 2015, titled“Acupuncture for labour pain” at Karonlinska Institutet

Research

My main research area is chronic pain and pain rehabilitation.  Im currently leader of our research group DU/Pain. Our research targets effects of; physical activity, the use of innovative interventional technology and interdisciplinary treatment programs.  I'm also the vice director of The Research Centre for Public Health and Sports (RePS)

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Publications