Lena Hellstrom-westas MD, PhD

Lena is a Professor of Perinatal Medicine at Uppsala University and senior consultant in neonatology at the Department of Neonatology at Uppsala University Hospital, Sweden. She is medical CO-Director at the Karolinska NIDCAP center and scientific advisor in neonatology to the Swedish National Board of Health and Wellbeing. She is pioneering research in Lund on amplitude-integrated EEG monitoring with a focus on the early prediction of outcome in asphyxiated infants and preterm infants, seizure detection, and sleep and pain assessments.