Annette Waldemar is a registered nurse who works with cardiac patients at Vrinnevi hospital in Norrköping, Sweden. She also works as a research nurse and cooperates with Professor Tiny Jaarsma, PhD students Lisa Hjelmfors and Emma Säfström (“Continuity of care and patient participation in patients hospitalized due to cardiac condition” and “TALK-HF” studies). Previously, she cooperated with Dr. Leonie Klompstra as a research nurse for many years within the HF-Wii study. Since 2014 she works part-time as a lecturer at Linköping University, at the Department of Social and Welfare studies, and she is a PhD-student at Institution for Medicine and Health. In 2017 Annette became a PhD student and her main supervisor is Associate professor Ingela Thylén and her co-supervisor is Professor Anna Strömberg and Associate professor Anders Bremer.

Her research area for her doctoral thesis is family witnessed cardiopulmonary resuscitation and other research interests concern different aspects of person-centered care. Her first study explored nurses’ and physicians’ experiences and attitudes toward family-witnessed resuscitation in cardiac care units. The next studies will explore how often families are witnessing resuscitations in hospitals, the experiences of patients and their next-of-kin of the resuscitation situation and how it affects their life.

Hanna Allemann is a registered nurse now working as a lecturer at Linköpings University, at the Institution for Medicine and Health.

She is also a PhD-student. Her main supervisor is Ingela Thylén and her co-supervisor is Anna Strömberg. Some of her major interest concerns aspects of pedagogy, communication and implementation. Earlier studies have also led to an interest in IT and media production. These aspects of interest come together in her PhD-studies which concerns IT-support for informal caregivers of persons with heart failure

Rose-Marie Isaksson is a registered nurse and PhD. She works at the department of research and development at the Norrbotten County Council, but also since 2013 as a visiting lecturer in Linköping at the Institution for Medicine and Health.
Rose-Marie received her PhD at the Department of Nursing and the Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine at Umeå university in april 2011. The title of the thesis was “Symptoms, prehospital delay and long-term survival in men vs. women with myocardial infarction – a combined register and qualitative study”. Since 2014 she is one of the members in the researchgroup SymTime, a multicenter observational study where STEMI and NSTEMI patients from the north parts and southeast parts of Sweden answer a questionnaire about their symptoms and actions in the prehospital phase. The study has the base in Linköping.
Her major interest goes out to symptoms, prehospital actions and gender in myocardial infarction and other heart diseases in the cardiovascular care area. She is also interested in cardiovascular epidemiology, life style and different ethical aspects in care.

Maria, a post-doc with experience in exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation 

Maria Bäck is a physiotherapist and PhD who is now in Linköping at the Institution for Medicine and Health for six months as a post-doc.

Maria Bäck received her PhD at the Department of Molecular and Clinical Medicine, Institute of Medicine at Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg in November 2012. The title of the thesis was: “Exercise and physical activity in relation to kinesiophobia and cardiac risk markers in coronary artery disease”.

Maria has an interest and expertise in the field of exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation from a holistic perspective, involving a bio-psycho-social perspective of health, including physiological as well as psychological effects of exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation.
Maria´s thesis included four studies. Study I evaluated the effects of high-frequency exercise before and after an elective PCI. Study II examined the level of physical activity in patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) and investigated the association between physical activity and cardiac risk markers. Study III investigated the validity and reliability of the Tampa Scale for Kinesiophobia Heart, a brief questionnaire to detect kinesiophobia, in patients with CAD. Study IV described the occurrence of kinesiophobia in patients with CAD and the impact on kinesiophobia by clinical variables with an influence on rehabilitation outcomes.

Naoko Kato is a nurse and postdoctoral research fellow from Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo. She is now working as a postdoctoral researcher with Tiny Jaarsma for 2 years. Naoko is interested in self-care in heart failure patients.