Did you know that in Sweden there is a word to describe a PhD funded by industry partnerships? On today’s episode we talk to an “industridoktorand” who is an engineer currently working on completing his PhD in medicine! It is a interesting research journey with challenges to build in multiple perspectives and carefully consider what is measured in research studies?

Top 3 Takeaways

1) There are multiple ways to fund a PhD, don’t give up if the traditional methods fail.

2) Different perspectives may help challenge accepted “truth”

3) Does a randomised control trial matter?

Bio: Andreas Blomqvist grew up in Stockholm, Sweden. He studied electrical engineering in college and received his master’s degree in 2004. After working in digital signal processing in the research department at St. Jude Medical (later procured by Abbott). From the beginning of this career he was involved in clinical research. He then developed his own company with a colleague and they invented and patented an mHeath tool aimed at improving the self-care behaviour in elderly people with heart failure. After spending all my professional career doing research. He is currently aiming to finish his PhD in November of 2024.

Find Andreas online:

University Profile page: https://liu.se/en/employee/andbl41

Company website: www.optilogg.com

Read Andreas’s Research:

1) https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12911-024-02452-z

2) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1071916421002451

Andreas is reading:

The Coddling of the American Mind by Greg Haidt and Jonathan Lukianof

Heart Failure Association Congress Podcast:

https://youtu.be/P5wkXW_5I6A?si=fSN6MtbKD2_l6P_W

Popular Data Viz Tools (from podcast guests): MS Excel (n=4), Other people (n=3), Visio (n=2)

Find Dr Rosalynn Austin

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-rosalynn-austin-147b3980/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rosalynnaustin/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/RosalynnAustin

Experience Dr Rosalynn Austin’s adventure while travelling! Checking out her YouTube channel @stepbystepwalks

Podcast content is the personal opinions and experiences of the researchers (Dr Rosalynn Austin and Andreas Blomqvist) and not that of any of their affiliated institutions.

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