Cecilia Bergh

About Cecilia Bergh

Cecilia Bergh is senior lecturer at the School of Health Sciences combined with a position as a clinical physiotherapist at Örebro University Hospital. Cecilia has a degree in Physiotherapy from the Karolinska Institute from 1998, and defended her thesis” Life-course influences on occurrence and outcome for stroke and coronary heart disease” at Örebro University in 2017. Her research is focused on life-style, cardiometabolic health and inflammation.

Research

Cecilia’s doctoral thesis included register-based studies on how characteristics in adolescence and adulthood, such as stress resilience and physical fitness, are linked with subsequent cardiovascular risk. As a member of the Clinical Epidemiology group, her post-doc period focused on life-course exposures relevant to later health and cardiovascular disease, in particular precursors of low stress resilience. Her post-doc projects investigated how the stress response, and other characteristics in adolescence, may be influenced by perinatal and early life stress.                                                                                          

Current research has a methodological width from epidemiological studies to randomized controlled clinical trials, and involves a lifestyle approach to disease risk to identify targets for risk reduction with a focus on lifestyle related exposures. Ongoing studies focus on risk markers, epidemiology and randomized interventions. Cecilia is principal investigator of a 900 patients clinical trial, (BIOAMI), initiated by and coordinated from Örebro University Hospital. This study will investigate the role of Nordic foods, such as bilberries and oats, for secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease in patients with acute myocardial infarction

Teaching

Cecilia has many years of experience as a study group tutor at the School of Medicine. Her current teaching activities are mainly at the Master's Programme in Sports Physiology and Medicine. Cecilia is supervising students at candidate and master level at both the School of Health Sciences and the School of Medical Sciences. She is also teaching and cooridinating courses related to her research area, including at PhD level, mainly in the field of research methodology and design.

Networks and collaborations

The national collaborative network includes researchers from Örebro University, Lund University, Chalmers University of Technology, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Hospital Region Västmanland, Karlstad Central Hospital, Odense University Hospital, DK and Steno Diabets Center, DK  including development of functional food products in collaboration with the research-driven company Glucanova in Lund and the Green Dairy in Karlshamn.