Kimmo Kontula

Personlig profil

Information om forskning och undervisning

Research:

Principal topics: Mechanisms of steroid hormone action, inherited disorders of cholesterol metabolism, molecular genetics of severe cardiac arrhythmias, genetic mechanisms underlying human hypertension
Over 300 scientific articles, supervised 17 theses
Awards: Lauri Saxen Award 1999, Matti Äyräpää Award 2005

Teaching:

Teacher at the University of Helsinki since 1972
Instructor, clinical teacher, associate professor, professor
Dean of the Faculty of Medicine 2007-2009, Vice-Rector 2010-2013
Awards and honors: Lecturer of the Year of the Faculty of Medicine 1995, Teaching Person of the Year of the Faculty of Medicine 2010

Clinical activities:

Clinician at the Department of Internal Medicine of the Helsinki University Central Hospital (HUCH) since 1978
At present: Chief Physician (adjunct position) at HUCH, consulting in diagnostics and treatment of patients with resistant hypertension

Societal interactions:

Previous activities: Chairman of the Duodecim Society, Editor-in-Chief of the Duodecim Journal, Chairman of the Board of the Finnish Cultural Foundation, Inspector of the Students´ Nation of the Southern Finland, Chairman of the Boards for FIMM (Institute for Molecular Medicine in Finland), Palmenia and UniSport
At present (2014-): Member of the Board of the University of Helsinki, Chairman of the Board of Yrjö Jahnsson Foundation, Member of the Board of Paavo Nurmi Foundation

Vetenskapsgrenar

312 Klinisk medicin
3121 Inre medicin

Internationellt och inhemskt samarbete Publikationer och projekt inom de senaste fem åren.

Publikationer 1972 2019

309 Artikel
47 Översiktsartikel
40 Kapitel
9 Antologi eller special utgåva
6 Mer

Genome-wide association study of white-coat effect in hypertensive patients

Rimpelä, J. M., Niiranen, T., Jula, A., Pörsti, I., Tikkakoski, A. J., Havulinna, A., Lehtimäki, T., Salomaa, V., Kontula, K. K. & Hiltunen, T. P., 2019, I : Blood Pressure. 28, 4, s. 239-249 11 s.

Forskningsoutput: Tidskriftsbidrag › Artikel › Vetenskaplig › Peer review

Genome-Wide Meta-Analysis of Blood Pressure Response to beta(1)- Blockers: Results From ICAPS (International Consortium of Antihypertensive Pharmacogenomics Studies

Singh, S., Warren, H. R., Hiltunen, T. P., McDonough, C. W., El Rouby, N., Salvi, E., Wang, Z., Garofalidou, T., Fyhrquist, F., Kontula, K. K., Glorioso, V., Zaninello, R., Glorioso, N., Pepine, C. J., Munroe, P. B., Turner, S. T., Chapman, A. B., Boerwinkle, E., Johnson, J. A., Gong, Y. & 1 andra, Cooper-DeHoff, R. M., 20 aug 2019, I : Journal of the American Heart Association. 8, 16, 25 s., 013115.

Forskningsoutput: Tidskriftsbidrag › Översiktsartikel › Vetenskaplig › Peer review

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