Listen New Post Doc: Tobias Renberg
Tobias Renberg, PhD in Social Pharmacy, joins CRB to investigate how patients perceive participating in research on chronic inflammation.
Before joining CRB, Tobias worked with patient perspectives on community pharmacy services. Patient groups are in a peculiar position, both in pharmacies, health care services and medical research. Some groups are quite vocal, but we know little about how they perceive the research that is conducted to improve their care. Especially patients with chronic illnesses are both contributing to research in one end and reaping the benefits in the other. But medical research also entails risk, risks that patients as research subjects are subjected to.
- I am interested in patient perspectives on research and researchers, says Tobias. We know quite a lot about public perceptions of medical research, but not so much about how patients, or end users, perceive these issues. Being a researcher myself, I am looking forward to the methodological challenges of asking participants how they perceive research.
This research is part of the COMBINE (Controlling chronic inflammatory diseases) Consortium’s work package 13 on ethics. COMBINE is a network of scientists, clinicians, patients and industrial representatives, trying to improve our understanding of why inflammatory diseases develop, what patients want to achieve, and to develop and implement novel prevention and therapy for these diseases. The consortium consists of clinicians/scientists, biomedical scientists, epidemiologists, care scientists, bioethicists, members of patient organisations, and industry representatives and is co-ordinated by Lars Klareskog at Karolinska Institutet.
- I am very excited to be in a multi-disciplinary research environment like CRB. I am a pharmacist by training and did my PhD in social pharmacy. I look forward to working together with philosophers and ethicist and think my background will be useful in this project. Working within the COMBINE consortium will be a great help in finding the data we need, Tobias says.
In this project, Tobias will work together with Malin Masterton, PhD in Bioethics.
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Tobias Renberg holds a position as researcher at the Centre for Research Ethics & Bioethics since 2010. He received his PhD in Social Pharmacy from Uppsala University in 2009, defending a thesis about Patient Perspectives on Community Pharmacy Services. Before that, he graduated as a pharmacist in 2003. His main research area is patients' perceptions on research and researchers.
E-mail: tobias.renberg@crb.uu.se
Phone: +46 18 471 61 99
