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Helena Backman

Position: Adjunct Senior Lecturer School/office: School of Health Sciences

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Helena Backman
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About Helena Backman

Helena Backman is Associated professor and Specialist in Obstetrics and Gynecology (Senior Consultant) and does her clinical work at the Örebro University Hospital focusing on women with diabetes during pregnancy. 

Research

Helena Backmans main research interest is in Diabetes in pregnancy with focus on Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) and she is the project leader of the national stepped wedge RCT evaluating the change in diagnostic criteria for GDM in Sweden (CDC4G). Apart from this she is working on projects on type 1 diabetes during pregnancy, and life style risk factors in antenatal care. She is a steering group member of COPE-study (www.copestudien.se), and today she is the main supervisor for 2 PhD students (Inga-Ros Valgeirsdottir, Malin Ugarph-Edfeldt) and co-supervisor for 1 PhD student (Hanna Östling). Helena Backman is a member and steering group member of  Diabetic Pregnancy Study Group www.dpsghome.org,  and since 2021 she leads a national working group in diabetes in pregnancy (SFOG). She is supervising continuously medical students in their research projects.

Teaching

Helena Backman is active in teaching widwives, medical students and other healthcare personnel in aspects of diabetes in pregnancy and also basic epidemiology.

Collaboration and assignments

Helena Backman was part of the National Board of Healths expert committee work with new guidelines for gestational diabetes in 2015 and is also an expert member in the current ongoing work (2024-25) of the reviison of these guidelines. Through this work a large collaboration network was built up in Sweden that has resulted in the CDC4G study. She has also established collaboration with Prof David Simmons, who is a guest professor at Örebro University with his own work at Western University of Sydney. Through the Research network in DPSG, other studies are under planning and her international collaboration is expanding in her research field.

Research projects

Active projects

Publications

Articles in journals |  Articles, reviews/surveys |  Books |  Chapters in books |  Conference papers |  Doctoral theses, comprehensive summaries |  Manuscripts | 

Articles in journals

Articles, reviews/surveys

Books

Chapters in books

Conference papers

Doctoral theses, comprehensive summaries

Manuscripts