Michael Hegstrom, M.D.

Also known as Mikael Haeggstroem

Biography

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 is currently a Clinical Informatics Fellow at the University of Minnesota, with continued clinical involvement in anatomic pathology. 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.

Further information

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