Ásgeir Helgason Biography
Ásgeir R. Helgason (born 1957) is an Icelandic scientist working at Karolinska Ins*utet in Sweden. Since 2002 he has been an *ociate professor in psychology at the Departments of Oncology-Pathology and Public Health at the Karolinska Ins*utet and Reykjavik University, Iceland.
Ásgeir is best known for his population based research on sexual function and emotional isolation in elderly men and prostate cancer patients, patient trade-off and his work on smoking cessation and quitlines. Helgason was a prime mover in the establishment of the Swedish and Icelandic national quitlines for smoking cessation (1998) and responsible for their development. He was also engaged in the development of a similar telephone-based proactive treatment for people who seek help for controlling their alcohol consumption (alcohol quitline).
Other work includes research on motivational interviewing and palliative care,followed by an ethical *ysis of facilitating death talk in end-of-life care.
Ásgeir has two sons. His brother-in-law is writer and humourist Tim Moore, his father is scientist Helgi Valdimarsson and he is a brother of scientist Agnar Helgason.
References and sources
- PhD thesis (1997): Prostate Cancer Treatment and Quality of Life – a Three Level Epidemiological Approach
- Sexual function in middle aged and elderly men:
- Emotional isolation in elderly men:
- Smoking cessation - quitlines:
- SvD - on emotional isolation (Swedish):
- Aftonbladet - on emotional isolation (Swedish):
- DN - on oral tobacco (Swedish):
- DN debatt (Swedish)Samtal om döden/Death talk
- List of scientific publications at US National Library of Medicine National Ins*utes of Health
- Death talk
