Axel R. Pries

Linda Mellbin, MD, PhD Associate Professor of Cardiology Karolinska University Hospital Stockholm, Sweden Linda Mellbin is Associate Professor of Cardiology and Head of the Coronary Artery Disease Patient Area at Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm, Sweden. She obtained her medical degree at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm in 2000 and, following service at the Department of Medicine at Oskarshamn Hospital, Kalmar, Sweden, she joined the Department of Cardiology at Karolinska University Hospital in 2005. She earned her PhD thesis in 2010 and has thereafter continued research in the field of diabetes and cardiovascular diseases at Karolinska Institutet. Associate Professor Mellbin has authored several original papers, review articles and book chapters and was a member of the European Society of Cardiology Task Force updating the 2013 and 2019 guidelines on diabetes, prediabetes and cardiovascular diseases. She is currently project leader for the European Association of Preventive Cardiology Educational Programme on Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease.