Sweden’s first female Professor of Surgery

At Umeå University's Annual Autumn ceremony at the end of October, Malin Sund was inaugurated as Sweden's first female professor of surgery. Her specialisation is in cancer surgery. Malin Sund received her MD from the University of Oulu, Finland. She obtained a PhD in molecular biology from the same university in 2001. During 2003-2005 she worked as a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School in Boston, USA. She received her surgical training Umeå University. She is a newly installed professor at Umeå University and also worksas a surgeon at Norrlands University Hospital with a focus on breast surgery, where she acts as head of the breast and endocrine surgery section.