Anna-Stina Malmborg, former docent of clinical microbiology at Karolinska Institutet and consultant and director of clinical bacteriology at Karolinska University Hospital for 17 years, has passed away at the age of 95. She and her husband Gunnar Höglund (1931-2019) set up the foundation that finances the Karolinska Institutet Prize for Research in Medical Education (KIPRIME).
"I met Anna-Stina many times over the years and was pleasantly struck by her wisdom and her passion for pushing medical education as a research field," says KI president Annika Östman Wernerson . "I know that she was very judicious and pedagogical in her dealings with patients and highly valued by her colleagues."
The Gunnar Höglund and Anna-Stina Malmborg Foundation was formed in 2001 in order to spotlight and stimulate quality research on medical education, research that can lead to lasting improvements to the training of health-science professionals.
KIPRIME is a biennial international prize that counts among its recipients prominent researchers whose work has had a profound global impact on medical education.
"Anna-Stina was a fascinating, knowledgeable and lovely person," says Jörgen Larsson , professor emeritus at Karolinska Institutet and chair of the foundation's board at SEB, which manages the donations. "The President and I visited her a year ago and we discussed the activities of the foundation and new KIPRIME initiatives."
Since the 1960s, Anna-Stina Malmborg and Gunnar Höglund had been collectors of international and Swedish art, and alongside their generous donations to KI through their foundation, they were also active in and major donors to the art world.
Their engagement and dedication will continue to inspire future generations, says Professor Östman Wernerson:
"Anna-Stina Malmborg's legacy lives on through the many researchers and healthcare professionals who had the privilege of working with her, and through the vital contributions that her and Gunnar Höglund's foundation have made to medical research and education."
