Jan Mårtensson

Head of Research School of Health and Welfare
Department of Nursing , School of Health and Welfare
Research School of Health and Welfare , School of Health and Welfare
PhD
Professor

Jan Mårtensson works as a Professor in Nursing at the School of Health and Welfare, Jönköping University, Sweden. The focus of his research is mainly in the area of Nursing Science, with emphasis on secondary prevention in patients with chronic heart failure. Within this field he has done both quantitative and qualitative studies focusing on: the life situation for patients with moderate to severe heart failure and their family; physical training of elderly patients with heart failure; follow-up programs in primary health care of patients with heart failure; self-care and IT-support for heart failure patients; sexual counselling for patients with cardiovascular disease and their partner; end of life care for patients with heart failure.

Jan defended his doctoral thesis in 2002 at the University of Gothenburg. The title of his thesis is “The Life Situation of Patients with Heart Failure in Primary Health Care — an Explorative and Interventional Study". He has been involved in about 90 original scientific publications in pre-reviewed Journals and 15 books or chapters (in Swedish, Danish and English) and the main supervisor for five PhD students and second supervisor for two.

He has been the chair of the Working Group on Heart Failure in Sweden and for the Education Committee of CCNAP (Council on cardiovascular nursing and allied professions) in Europe. He is involved in CEASAR at a regional level. CEASAR (Collaboration and Exchange in Swedish cardiovascular caring Academic Research ) is a group of over 25 regional researchers in the area of cardiac care from Linköping, Jönköping, Kalmar and Norrköping working toward collaboration and exchange in their field.

Jan Mårtensson started ADULT, one of the research environments at the School of Health and Welfare and was the chair during four years. Jan Mårtensson is currently an associate editor for The European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing and has been a member of the Board for the Red Cross University College in Stockholm since 2016.

Jan was a guest professor at University of Arkansas in the United States for six months during 2010. Since 2011 he is responsible for the academic exchange and cooperation between School of Nursing, Tianjin Medical University (TMU), China and School of Health and Welfare, Jönköping University. He worked as a professor at the Institute of Nursing, Bergen University College in Norway between 2014-2017.

Jan Mårtensson is currently sharing his position as a professor at the Department of Nursing and Director of the Research School for Health and Welfare at Jönköping University.