Maria Henström
Assistant Professor
E-mail: maria.henstrom@ki.se
Visiting address: Blickagången 16, 14152 Flemingsberg
Postal address: H7 Medicin, Huddinge, H7 GUT Löf, 171 77 Stockholm
About me
- Assistant Professor and nutritionist in the IMPACT research group [1] led by Prof Marie Löf, working with mHealth/eHealth interventions to promote a healthy lifestyle from the start of life. I am also affiliated to the University of Newcastle, Australia, as an Honorary Lecturer through a collaborative child feeding intervention project (PICNIC [2]) which I aim to bring to Sweden. Furthermore, I am highly involved in nutrition education and enjoy teaching. I am Deputy Study director for the bachelor programme in nutrition at Stockholm University in collaboration with KI, but also course leader and teacher on bachelor-, master- and doctoral level.
[1] /en/bionut/the-impact-research-group-marie-lof
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Research
- In the IMPACT research group, I am involved in various mHealth/eHealth research projects and preventive health interventions, with most focus on young children and their parents. We are also part of the Centre for Nutrition [1] at KI, as well as the KI eHealth Core Facility [2] which aim to support other researchers within eHealth. I have a nutrition background (educated nutritionist) and finished my PhD in Medical Science in May 2018 at the Dept. of Biosciences and Nutrition (BioNut), ̽»¨¾«Ñ¡. My doctoral studies aimed to use genetic association to understand more about the pathophysiology of irritable bowel syndrome, IBS [3]. However, I then changed my research area completely. Now, my greatest interest lies in the first years of life, where I am focused on child nutrition, eating behaviour and parents feeding practices. I want to contribute to the development and implementation of programs to better support parents in establishing healthy eating and activity habits for their children already from food introduction. I also believe there is great potential in using parents' natural ability to support and inspire each other (peer-education) and I want to explore ways of effectively disseminate evidence-based child feeding information and support through online communication and social networks.
[1] /en/bionut/centre-for-nutrition
[2] /en/research/ehealth-core-facility
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Teaching
- I am highly involved in higher education through teaching and course leading at bachelor-, master- and doctoral level. I have a strong pedagogic interest and practice teaching and course leading at the bachelor/masters program in nutrition [1] at SU/KI, for instance in the topics human physiology, formative evaluation of eHealth tools, and popular science communication of nutrition science. I also guest lecture at other courses. Since 2022 I am the Deputy study director of the bachelor program in Nutrition (run by Stockholm University in collaboration with BioNut, KI).
[1] /en/bionut/education-in-nutrition-science
Articles
- Article: ACTA PAEDIATRICA. 2024;113(8):1891-1899
- Article: NUTRIENTS. 2024;16(5):718
- Article: BMC NURSING. 2024;23(1):8
- Article: PEDIATRIC OBESITY. 2024;19(1):e13084
- Article: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BEHAVIORAL NUTRITION AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY. 2023;20(1):22
- Article: BMC PUBLIC HEALTH. 2022;22(1):2184
- Article: BMC PUBLIC HEALTH. 2022;22(1):836
- Article: SCIENTIFIC REPORTS. 2022;12(1):2665
- Article: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH. 2021;19(1):102
- Article: SCIENTIFIC REPORTS. 2021;11(1):22719
- Article: CHILDREN-BASEL. 2021;8(8):696
- Article: JMIR MHEALTH AND UHEALTH. 2021;9(3):e26091
- Article: NUTRIENTS. 2020;12(12):3823
- Article: BMC PUBLIC HEALTH. 2020;20(1):1756
- Article: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH. 2020;17(22):8491
- Article: NEUROGASTROENTEROLOGY AND MOTILITY. 2018;30(9):e13358
- Article: GUT. 2018;67(2):263-270
- Article: MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR PEDIATRICS. 2016;3(1):7
- Article: NEUROGASTROENTEROLOGY AND MOTILITY. 2014;26(10):1417-1425
All other publications
- Preprint: JMIR PREPRINTS. 2020
- Doctoral thesis: 2018
- Letter: GUT. 2017;66(9):1725-1727
- Conference publication: NEUROGASTROENTEROLOGY AND MOTILITY. 2015;27:52-53
Grants
- The Henning & Johan Throne-Holst foundation1 August 2023 - 31 July 2024
Employments
- Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Huddinge, ̽»¨¾«Ñ¡, 2024-2027
Degrees and Education
- Degree Of Doctor Of Philosophy, Department of Biosciences and Nutrition, ̽»¨¾«Ñ¡, 2018