RN, nurse Anesthetist, Degree of Master in Education, PhD student at Center for Resuscitation Science, Karolinska Institutet, Department of Medicine Solna.
Member of the board of the Swedish Resuscitation Council.
Teacher in emergency medicine, advanced life support, disaster medicine etc.
Project leader in the scientific study "Saving more lives in Sweden", where we have implemented dual dispatch with EMS, fire fighters and/or the police in nine counties during a period of three years. Our objective is to increase survival in Out-of-Hospital cardiac arrest.
Dr. Gabriel Riva is a Resident Physician in Internal medicine and Cardiology at the S:t Goran Hospital in Stockholm, where he is working mainly in the field of Emergency Medicine and the intensive care. Main medical interest is management of critically ill patients, which has brought him into resuscitation research and a fellowship at the Centre for Resuscitation Science, The Karolinska Institute, Stockholm Sweden.
Dr. Johan Herlitz is a professor at the University of Borås School of Health Science. His interests include Integrated Caring Science and Pre-Hospital care.
During the last 15 years I have been conducting research in the field of cardiac arrest and I am now the Head of Research at the Centre for Resuscitation Science at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden. I also work as a Cardiologist at Södersjukhuset in Stockholm and as the Chair in the Swedish Resuscitation Council’s working group for defibrillation.
I´m a researcher at the Center for Resuscitation Science at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden. My research is mainly focused on Out-of-Hospital-Cardiac-Arrest and the use of public placed Automated External Defibrillators and bystander CPR. Clinically I'm working as a specialist in Cardiology and Internal Medicine at the Department of Cardiology and the Section of Medical Intensive Care at Södersjukhuset in Stockholm.
David Fredman is a registered nurse and is employed at department of cardiology at Södersjukhuset hospital, Stockholm, Sweden.
Since 2009 David has held a position as a project manager at Södersjukhuset and has been involved in many of the cardiac arrest research projects conducted at the Center for Resuscitation Science at Södersjukhuset. David has been responsible for recruitment and follow up of the volunteers for the SMS lifesaver project and he has also been running the social media accounts for the project.
David is also a member of the Swedish resuscitation council and has been involved in the development of the Swedish AED registry as well as the implementation of this AED registry to emergency medical dispatch centers in Sweden.
David is since 2014 a PhD student at Karolinska Institutet, Department of Medicine, Solna and in his research David will investigate the correlation between cardiac arrest incidence locations and AED locations in Sweden and other factors of importance for early defibrillation in case of cardiac arrest.