Prof. Klas Sjöberg

Prof. Klas SjöbergGastroenterology
Sweden
Klas Sjöberg is a specialist and senior conultant in internal medicine and in gastroenterology and hepatology. The main clinical interests are within gastrointestinal inflammation and nutrition. Klas is former head of the Dept of Gastroenterology and Nutrition at Skåne University Hopstial, Malmö, Sweden.
Klas is also responsible for organising the education in internal medicine for the students at the Faculty of Medicne and Odontology.
The research is aiming at a better understanding of the pathogenetic mechanisms behind the development of autoimmune diseases in the gastrointestinal tract, such as inflammatory bowel disease and microscopic colitis.
Klas has been scientific secretary in the Swedish Society of Internal Medicine and is since 2104 a member of the Executive Committee of the International Society of Internal Medicine.