Biographies of Authors and Editors
Olin, Christian M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery
Linköping University, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery
University Hospital, SE-581 85, Linköping, Sweden
E-mail: christian.olin@lio.se
Web-site: huweb.hu.liu.se/inst/imv
Christian Olin is Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery and a Consultant Cardiac Surgeon at the University Hospital in Linköping, Sweden. He got his medical training in Stockholm at the Karolinska Institute and the specialty training in Cardiothoracic Surgery at the Karolinska Hospital in Stockholm and at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, USA. Between 1981 and 1989 he was Consultant Cardiac Surgeon at the Lund University Hospital, Lund, Sweden. His special interest is heart valve surgery and he has written about 50 papers on the subject. Recently he has led a research project aiming at studying blood compatibility of materials used in prosthetic heart valves. Among the materials studied were titanium, titanium alloys and surface coated titanium.
