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Ann Fridner

Docent, leg psykolog, leg psykoterapeut, universitetslektor

International coordinator

I am the international coordinator of the project "Health and Organisation among University hospital Physicians in Europe" [the HOUPE] - study since it started 2003, www.houpe.no. It is a longitudinal intervention research project now consisting of seven countries: Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Italy, Hungary, Austria and the Netherlands.

The project generates data among 7 000 hospital physicians on determinants in the educational system, the organization and work environment that affect the recruitment in academic medicine and physicians career, work conditions, work satisfaction and health. Academic medicine is entrusted by society toward improving the health of the public, including clinical research and education.

Theoretically, we apply an intersectionality perspective on traditional work models including the balance between job demands and resources and potential outcomes such as engagement, burnout or intention to leave academic medicine.

The HOUPE meeting in Budapest, November 2012.

Prizes

The 1.6 Million Club´s Science Prize 2005 for research focusing on equal opportunities and health among female and male physicians.

Publications

Articles

Fridner, A., Pingel, B., Løvseth, L.T., & Schenck-Gustafsson, K. (2013). From awareness to action using the survey feed-back method. [Submitted]

Sendén Gustafsson, M., Løvseth, L.T., Schenck-Gustafsson, K., & Fridner, A. (2013). Sickness presenteeism among academic physicians in four European countries (HOUPE). [In review]

Løvseth, L.T., Aasland, O.G., Fridner, A., Schenck-Gustafsson, K., Jónsdóttir, L.S., Einarsdóttir, T., Marini, M., Minucci, M., Pavan, L., Götestam, K.G., & Linaker, O.M. (2013). Psychosocial work factors as moderators of confidentiality as a barrier to seeking social support. A cross-sectional study of university hospital physicians in four European cities. [the HOUPE study] [Work, in press.]

Løvseth, L.T., Fridner, A., Jonsdottir, L.S., Marini, M., & Linaker, O.M. (2013). Associations between confidentiality requirements, support seeking and burnout among university hospital physicians in Norway, Sweden, Iceland and Italy (the HOUPE study). Stress and Health, 01/2013. Doi:10.1002/smi.2479.

Fridner, A., Belkic, K., Marini, M., Sendén Gustafsson, M., & Schenck-Gustafsson, K. (2012). Why don´t physicians seek needed professional help for mental distress? Swiss Med Wkly, 142, w13626.

Fridner, A., Belkic, K., Minucci, D., Marini, M., Putoto, G., Simonato, P., & Schenck-Gustafsson, K. (2011). Work environment and recent suicidal thoughts among male university hospital physicians in Europe (HOUPE) study. Gender Medicine, 8, 269-279.

Fridner, A., Belkic, K., Pingel, B., & Schenck-Gustafsson, K. (2010). The pivotal role of the work environment for the mental health of female and male physicians. Gender Medicine, 7, 517.

Løvseth, L.T., Aasland, O.G., Fridner, A., Jónsdóttir, L.S., Marini, M., & Linaker, O.M. (2010). Confidentiality and physicians' health. A cross-sectional study of university hospital physicians in four European cities [HOUPE-study]. Journal of Occupational health, 52, 263-271.

Andersen, G.R., Aasland, O.G., Fridner, A., & Løvseth, T.L. (2010). Harassment among university hospital physicians in four European cities. Results from a cross-sectional study in Norway, Sweden, Iceland and Italy [the HOUPE study]. Work, 37, 99-110.

Fridner, A., Belkic, K., Marini, M., Minucci, D., Pavan, L., & Schenck-Gustafsson, K. (2009). Survey on recent suicidal ideation among female university hospital physicians in Sweden and Italy (the HOUPE study): Associations with work stressors. Gender Medicine, 6, 314-328.

Fridner, A., Belkic, K., Pingel, B., Wiehager, Adlercreutz, & Schenck-Gustafsson, K. (2008). Recent suicidal ideation among female and male university hospital physicians in Sweden (The HOUPE-study): associations with work stressors. Gender Medicine, 5, 323.

Thesis

Fridner, A. (2004). Career Paths and Career Patterns among Physicians with a PhD. Doctoral Dissertation, Department of Psychology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.

Invited to National and International Conferences

Fridner, A. (2011). Genus i vården. Sick-listed physicians - the HOUPE-study. Stockholm City Counscil, 2nd December, Stockholm, Sweden.

Fridner, A. (2011). Health care seeking - why do women and men behave differently. 10 years with Center of Gender Medicine, Past, present and future, the 17th of October, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden.

Fridner, A., Kopp, M., & Minucci, D. (2008). Achieving gender equality in the medical profession at university hospital - what needs to be done? 3rd International Congress of Gender Medicine, the 12th -14th of September, Stockholm, Sweden.

Fridner, A. (2001). Gender Perspective in Swedish Psychology - possibilities and challenges. The Swedish Research Council and Swedish Secretariat for Gender Research, 14th-15th of June, Stockholm, Sweden.

Fridner, A., Pingel, B., Hansen, N., & Schenck-Gustafsson, K. (2006). Career, position and workrelated health among Physicians at Karolinska University Hospital. 3rd Annual Interdisciplinary Women´s Health Research Symposium 15th - 16th of November. Office of Research on Womens´s Health, NIH Bethesda, Maryland, USA.

Fridner, A. (2006). Cross-sectional data creates myths. 21st of April, Swedish Women Medical Association, Annual Meeting in Lund, Sweden.

Fridner (Almegård), A. (1997). Career paths in academic medicine. Nordic Conference at Gothenburg University 22nd - 23rd of August, Gothenburg, Sweden.

Fridner (Almegård), A. (1997). The research careers of postgratuates in medicine. International Conference, UHÄ, 14th - 15th of August, Stockholm, Sweden.

Peer-reviewed Contribution to International Conferences

Fridner, A., Gustafsson Sendén, M., Minucci, D., Marini, M., Lövesth, T.L., Sigrún Jónsdottir, L., & Schenck-Gustafsson, K. (2012). Characteristics of female and male academic physicians working while ill (the HOUPE study). The Annual 2012 Meeting of OSSD & IGM, June 7-9, 2012, Baltimore, USA.

Larsson, A., Kiessling, A., Henriksson, P., Arrelöv, B., & Fridner, A. (2012). Medical documentation for assessment of work ability in longer sickness absence cases – the significance of patients gender and psychosocial conditions. The Annual 2012 Meeting of OSSD & IGM, June 7-9, 2012, Baltimore, USA.

Fridner, A., Wall, M., Minucci, D., Marini, M., & Schenck-Gustafsson, K. (2012). Recent Suicidal Ideation among Female and Male University Hospital Surgeons in Sweden and Italy (The HOUPE Study): Association with Work Stressors. The Annual 2012 Meeting of OSSD & IGM, June 7-9, 2012, Baltimore, USA.

Fridner, A., Gustafsson Sendén, M., Løvseth, T.L., & Schenck-Gustafsson, K. (2012). From collected survey data to largescale intervention project: (The HOUPE study). 2012 AMA-BMA-CMA International Conference on Physician Health - "From Awareness to Action" in Montreal, Canada, October 25-27.

Løvseth, T.L., Gustafsson Sendén, M., & Fridner, A. (2012). Feedback seminars about findings on presenteeism among physicians in a Norweigian university hospital. 2012 AMA-BMA-CMA International Conference on Physician Health - "From Awareness to Action" in Montreal, Canada, October 25-27.

Gustafsson Sendén, M., Løvseth, T.L., Schenck-Gustafsson, K., & Fridner, A. (2012). Leadership strategies increase health among university physicians (HOUPE). 2012 AMA-BMA-CMA International Conference on Physician Health - "From Awareness to Action" in Montreal, Canada, October 25-27.

Schenck-Gustafsson, K., Fridner, A., Belki, K., Minucci, D., Marini, M., & Pingel, B. (2010). The work environment and suicidal thoughts among male and female physicians in Sweden: Results from the university hospital physician (HOUPE) study. Organisation for the Study of Sex Differences (OSSD). June 2nd- 5th 2010, Ann Arbor Michigan, USA.

Fridner, A., Kopp, M., Løvseth, L.T., Jóndsottir, L.S., & Schenck-Gustafsson, K. (2009). Health and working conditions among physicians in five European countries. 4th Congress of the International Society of Gender Medicine (IGM), November 6th - 8th, Berlin, Germany.

Fridner, A., & Marini, M. (2008). Depression, burnout and suicidal ideation among Swedish and Italian physicians. BMA-AMA-CMA International conference on Doctors Health, 18th - 20th of November, London, England.

Fridner, A., Marini, M., Pavan, L., Minucci, D., Jonsdottir, L.S., Einarsdottir, T., Schenck-Gustafsson, K., Götestam, K.-G., & Løvseth, L.T . (2008). The research collaboration HOUPE: Health and Organisation among University Hospital Physcians in four European countries: Sweden, Norway, Iceland and Italy. BMA - AMA - CMA International conference on Doctors Health, 18th -20th of November, London, England.

Fridner, A., Pingel, B., & Hansen, N. (2007). Career, gender and health among University Hospital Physicians in five European countries. XIII European Congress of Work and Organizational Psychology, 12th of May, Stockholm, Sweden.

Fridner (Almegård), A., & Hallin, C. (1995). Gender and research supervision. NGO Forum, 28th of August - 8th of September, Huairou, China.

Fridner (Almegård), A., & Hallin, C. (1994). Research supervision and gender. Nordic Forum, 1st - 6th of August, Åbo, Finland.

Fridner (Almegård), A. (1993). Female physicians and academic medicine. Nordic Conference in Gender Medicine Research, 28th - 29th of October, Umeå, Sweden.

Book Chapters

Almegård (Fridner), A. (2002). Mormor, Lacan och jag. I E. Hultcrantz (Red.). Kvinna och doktor och skribent. Lund: Studentlitteratur.

Almegård (Fridner), A., & Söderfeldt, B. (1998). Förebilder - kvinnliga läkare. I: Elisabeth Hultcrantz (Red.), Läkare, doktor, kvinna. Lund: Studentlitteratur.

Almegård (Fridner), A. (1995). Om kvinnor får samma resurser som män forskar de lika mycket. Medicinsk kvinnoforskning och forskning om kvinnors hälsa. I: SOU 1995:110 Viljan att veta och viljan att förstå.

Reports

Arrelöv, B., Henriksson, P., Kiessling, A., Larsson, A., & Fridner, A. (2010). LUH - kvalitetstudie utifrån ett jämställdhetsperspektiv. [Gender from an Intersectional Perspective - a Review of Medical Reports on Health Status.] Stockholm: Stockholm läns landsting.

Pingel, B., Schenck-Gustafsson, K., & Fridner, A. (2009) HOUPE-rapporten 2009. Om ojämställdheten bland läkare - Rapport från HOUPE-studien I Sverige. [On gender inequality among physicians - the HOUPE study] Stockholm: Stockholm läns landsting.

Fridner, A., Pingel, B., & Hansen, N. (2006). Läkares hälsa och arbetsvillkor vid Karolinska Universitetssjukhuset. [Physicians' health and working conditions at Karolinska University Hospital] Stockholm: Karolinska University Hospital.

Almegård (Fridner), A. (1997). Disputerade medicinares akademiska karriär i ett könsperspektiv. [The Academic career among PhD´s in a gender perpective] Jämställdhetsrapport nr 2 1997. Stockholm: Karolinska institutet.

Almegård (Fridner), A., Andersson, M., & Enzell, K. (1989). Vad är handledning i psykiatrisk behandlingsarbetet? [Supervision within psychiatric treatment in clinical settings] SFPH:s monografiserie nr 31, Stockholm.