The Mölnlycke O.R. blog

Sara Sundström

Background Sara Sundström works in the Innovation and Concept Design team at Mölnlycke Health Care, focused on creating new products and services for the O.R. She has a background in psychology, sociology and industrial design engineering, a seemingly odd combination that fits perfectly into finding out customers’ unknown and hidden needs. Prior to joining Mölnlycke Health Care, Sundström worked in the automotive industry, and regardless of whether it was wheel loaders, trucks or cars, the passion for customer needs has always been there.

Expertise Innovation management and creativity techniques form the foundation of Sundström’s work in bringing ideas to life, knowing that when working on new customer solutions, ideas do not just appear – they are the result of hard, systematic work, preferably mixed with at touch of playfulness. She believes customer knowledge and understanding everyday life in the O.R. are vital aspects to doing innovation-related work in this field, and visiting customers is her favorite part. Sundström’s childhood dream of becoming a doctor makes Mölnlycke Health Care the best place for her to be.

Jane Aston

Background Jane Aston is a clinical nurse consultant with expertise in occupational health. Before joining Mölnlycke Health Care, Aston worked as a nurse within the National Health Service in the UK for more than 30 years. The scope of Aston’s work at Mölnlycke Health Care includes delivering clinical education to Mölnlycke Health Care customers in operating rooms throughout the UK, which requires keeping abreast of up-to-date clinical publications and practices.

Expertise Aston is a passionate advocate for occupational health and safety. She has been a national blood-borne virus specialist nurse, making her uniquely qualified to present the risks associated with sharps and needlestick injuries and preventive safety measures, such as double-gloving practice. She is particularly excited to be supporting the Mölnlycke Health Care interpretation of the new EU Sharps Directive, which becomes law on May 11, 2013.

Hayley Hughes

Background Hayley Hughes works in surgical clinical research at Mölnlycke Health Care. She started her career as an analytical chemist testing antiseptic products and wound-care dressings while spending her spare time training with the Royal Navy Reserve. The scope of Hughes’s work at Mölnlycke includes liaising with the R&D and regulatory departments in her clinical evaluation work as well as product training.

Expertise Hughes has spent the last 18 months researching many sources of evidence behind antiseptic practices in hospitals and ensuring the quality of evidence within sales and marketing material. She has recently completely her MSc in Science, which included a personal project that assessed the evidence used to formulate current practices of Infection Preventionists within the NHS with regard to antiseptic body washing of patients prior to surgery. Having spent ten years as an analytical chemist, Hughes loves looking at the minor detail as well as the bigger picture.

Viktor Gergely

I’m a devoted Health Economist, with a Pharmacy degree from the Semmelweis University in Budapest, Hungary and a Ph.D. in integrated medical science from the Shiga University in Otsu, Japan. I have a vast experience from the field of health economics.

Karin Ganlöv

Background Dr Karin Ganlöv is a board-certified specialist/consultant in cardiothoracic surgery. Dr Ganlöv received her qualifications at Lund University in Sweden. While actively practising, Dr Ganlöv worked as a consultant cardiothoracic surgeon, focusing primarily on adults but also children with congenital heart defects. Before joining Mölnlycke Health Care, Dr Ganlöv worked in the pharmaceutical industry for a number of years, including at Bayer Health Care and ALK-Abello.

Expertise Dr Ganlöv, having seen firsthand the complications that can arise with either induced or inadvertently hypothermic patients, is a passionate advocate for the growing patient-warming field. Dr Ganlöv is vocal about the importance of finding simpler, quieter, more accessible ways to make patient warming a universal and ubiquitous practice. Dr Ganlöv knows from her own experience that for surgeons, keeping complications to a minimum is a top priority; Dr Ganlöv sees promoting patient warming as a simple and effective way for surgeons to achieve this reduction in complications while improving surgical outcomes and providing a better standard of comfort and care for patients.