Peter Hjelmstrom | Director and Chief Executive Officer
Uppsala Monitoring Centre

Peter Hjelmström is the Director/CEO of Uppsala Monitoring Centre (UMC) since 2023 and he has overall responsibility for the operations of the foundation. Peter is physician and scientist, with MD and PhD degrees from Karolinska Institutet, and he did his postdoctoral fellowship at Yale University. He was an associate professor at Karolinska Institutet and trained as an orthopedic surgeon at Karolinska University Hospital before working in the pharmaceutical industry for 17 years. His most recent role before joining UMC was as Chief Medical Officer at a Swedish pharmaceutical company. He has published over 45 manuscripts in peer-reviewed scientific journals mainly within immunology as well as pharmacoepidemiology of opioid dependence.