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About Hugo Lagercrantz
- Carl Hugo Lagercrantz (born 18 April 1945) is a Swedish pediatrician.
- He is Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics at the Karolinska Institute and is a former member of both the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute, which awards the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, and the assembly's five-member working body, the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine.
- He has also formerly been President of the Swedish Pediatric Society and the European Society for Pediatric Research.
- Since 2005 he has been editor-in-chief of Acta Paediatrica.
- Lagercrantz was appointed professor of pediatrics at Karolinska Institute in 1989 and was director of the Neonatal Programme at the Astrid Lindgren Children's Hospital at Karolinska University Hospital until 2004.
- He earned his PhD in 1971 at Karolinska Institute and has also written several books.
- He is a member of the Swedish noble Lagercrantz family, which was ennobled in the 17th century, and is a descendant of Swedish finance minister Gustaf Lagercrantz.
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