Emmi Helle MD, PhD, MSc (Econ)

Dr. Emmi Helle graduated from the Turku School of Economics and thereafter completed her medical degree at Linköping University, Sweden. She finished her Ph.D. at the University of Turku in 2010 before moving to the University of Helsinki, where she trained in pediatrics and pediatric cardiology. She has completed an Inherited Arrhythmia Fellowship at the Hospital for Sick Children and at Toronto General Hospital in 2022-2023.

Besides clinical work, she has a strong research background focusing on unraveling the environmental and genetic causes of congenital heart defects. During 2015-2016 Dr. Helle worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at Stanford University, CA, at the Ashley and Priest labs. Dr. Helle is currently working as a PI at the Stem Cells and Metabolism Research Program and as a pediatric cardiologist at the New Children’s Hospital at the University of Helsinki.