Also known as Mikael Haeggstroem

Michael Hegstrom is a Swedish-American pathologist and clinical informatician. He is the creator of the WikiJournal of Medicine, as well as the open-access medical resources Patholines and Radlines.

He was born in Gothenburg, Sweden. During a six-month backpacking journey in 2005—traveling on the Trans-Siberian Railway to China and crossing the Himalayas from Tibet to Nepal—he decided to pursue a career in medicine.

Dr. Hegstrom graduated with a Doctor of Medicine degree from Uppsala University, Faculty of Medicine, in 2013. He completed two years of rotational internship and subsequently worked as a physician in obstetrics and gynecology, radiology, and pathology in Sweden. He completed residency training in anatomic and clinical pathology at Danbury Hospital in Connecticut in 2024.

He completed his Clinical Informatics Fellowship at the University of Minnesota in 2026 and is currently working as a staff physician in anatomic pathology on a locum tenens basis at Community Medical Center in Missoula, Montana. He became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 2026.

Dr. Hegstrom has contributed to Wikipedia since 2006 and has an extensive portfolio of medical illustrations. He founded the WikiJournal of Medicine, a Wikipedia-integrated, peer-reviewed, open-access academic journal, serving as Editor-in-Chief from 2014 to 2024. He is also the creator of Patholines and Radlines, which provide openly accessible practice-oriented guidelines in pathology and radiology.

• Curriculum Vitae - This linked document contains detailed information regarding education, training, licensure, publications, presentations, professional memberships, and technical expertise.
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