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Portrait of Dr. Henrik Vallgren
Stockholm№ 01
Founder · Radiology

Dr. Henrik Vallgren

Founding Radiologist & Chief Medical Officer

Karolinska Institutet. 28 years in whole-body MRI. Former director, Stockholm Imaging.

Location
Stockholm
Languages
Swedish · English · German
Availability
By personal introduction. Founding members only.
I. Biography

A reading
of the life.

Henrik trained at Karolinska in the late 1980s, at a moment when MRI was just becoming a clinical tool rather than a research curiosity. He has spent the better part of three decades refining what a single, quiet hour inside a magnet can reveal about a person's future.

He founded NordicScan to bring that culture — slow, exacting, deeply Nordic — into a setting where preventative medicine is treated as a private pleasure rather than a public utility. He oversees every protocol, reads on every founding member, and personally delivers the first dossier of the day.

Medicine should arrive before the question. The most luxurious thing a clinician can offer a patient is a calm, well-prepared hour and an honest answer.
II. Specialties

Where attention
is paid.

  • 01Whole-body 3T MRI
  • 02Early-stage oncology screening
  • 03Silent imaging protocols
  • 04Preventative radiology
III. Education
  1. 1991

    MD, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm

  2. 1996

    Specialist registration, Diagnostic Radiology — Karolinska University Hospital

  3. 2003

    PhD, Quantitative MRI biomarkers — Karolinska Institutet

IV. Appointments
  1. 1996–2014

    Consultant Radiologist, Karolinska University Hospital

  2. 2014–2022

    Director, Stockholm Imaging Centre

  3. 2022–

    Founder & CMO, NordicScan

V. Selected work

A modern
record.

  1. 01

    Co-author, Nordic Whole-Body MRI Consensus Statement (2019)

  2. 02

    Lead investigator, Karolinska Silent Sequencing Trial (2017–2021)

  3. 03

    Visiting faculty, RSNA preventative imaging seminars (2018, 2022)

VI. Consultation

How to be
seen.

Consults from
StockholmDubai (quarterly residencies)
Availability

By personal introduction. Founding members only.

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