Veterinarians

Anna Hedsqvist

Anna works at the outpatient clinic in Sigtuna and is one of our longest-serving veterinarians. Anna completed her veterinary education in Uppsala in December 1999 and started at the Sigtuna clinic in 2000. She has also worked as a district veterinarian in Norrköping and as an insemination-veterinarian under the direction of Mälaren Hästklinik. Anna’s areas of ​​interest are orthopaedics and dentistry, as well as preventive measures to keep your horse healthy and sound. She is affiliated with The International Society of Equine Locomotor Pathology (ISELP), and graduated as an equine dentist in 2020.

Anna breeds horses on a small scale, is a qualified riding instructor and rides and competes in various disciplines because she says it is fun to have variety. Anna is also a farmer; with her husband and son she runs a farm with a herd of beef cattle and chickens that are prone to running away. 

Anna Kendall

Anna works with all types of internal medicine problems, both in the outpatient department and with our registered patients in the ward. Anna graduated as a veterinarian from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), and then went to Canada where she did a one-year internship in equine medicine and surgery at the Ontario Veterinary College. She completed her specialist training in internal medicine at the equine clinic at the University Animal Hospital (SLU), and after her specialist degree she remained as a teacher in equine medicine for a few years. In 2011 she moved with her family to New Zealand, and while there worked at the School of Veterinary Medicine at Massey University as both a teacher and clinical veterinarian. In 2014 she started working at Mälaren Hästklinik, with a break between 2019-2022 when she defended her thesis at SLU. Her thesis “Nerve Growth Factor and its association with osteoarthritis in the horse” examines how NGF (which is a pain signalling substance in humans) affects horses. Since 2023 she has been back working full-time at the clinic. 

Axel Wallman

Axel studied at the Veterinary School in Uppsala from 2004 to 2010. In parallel with his studies, he worked as an apprentice farrier. After graduating, Axel received further training from Björn Nolting (Dr.med.vet.) in Germany. For three years, he worked with orthopaedic problems of riding horses at Brunmåla Hästpraktik, until he came to us in August 2013. Axel’s interest lies in diagnostics and treatment of competition horses. He is also particularly interested in ultrasound diagnostics, and is affiliated with ISELP. 

Camilla Ahrenbring

Camilla graduated from Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in 2015. Following this she worked at the District Veterinary Hospital in Fjärdhundra with imaging diagnostics, orthopaedics, oral cavity and emergency care, with a particular interest in sick foals. Camilla now works in Sigtuna in care and the emergency room. Horses are her passion both at work and in her spare time. As a junior, Camilla rode in the national championships in eventing, but now her free time is mainly spent on the jumping horses on her farm. 

Cecilia Ekeberg

Cecilia graduated from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) in 2016. She worked for about a year as a district veterinarian in northern Stockholm before completing a one-year internship here at Mälaren Hästklinik. She has since worked at the District Veterinarians Gotland with responsibility for developing the horse practice there and since 2017 has been back working at Mälaren Hästklinik.

Cecilia is an SLU-approved equine odontologist and has completed several further training courses in dental care for horses. Apart from teeth, she also has a wide variety of other interests in horse medicine, including lameness, emergency medical care, feed and parasites. 

Cecilia also has a great interest in reproduction and was previously the responsible veterinarian at Skråmsta Stud Farm. Together with her sister, she runs a small horse breeding business, mainly the Gotland Russ breed.

In addition to being a veterinarian, Cecilia is a certified farrier and has previously competed extensively in pony trotting and driving. She now lives on a farm with her family and animals outside Katrineholm in Södermanland, and is therefore based mostly at our clinics in Örebro and Sjöbacka. 

Clara Törnqvist

Clara studied veterinary medicine at the University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences in Brno, Czech Republic, and graduated in 2017. After that, she moved back to Sweden and started working as a district veterinarian in Gamleby/Vimmerby, followed by a stint in Nyköping. Clara started with MHK at our practice in Sigtuna in the fall of 2019 and now works mostly in our care department. In her free time, she spends a lot of time in the forest with her dogs Vilja and Birk. She also rides a couple of companion horses when she has time. 

Ebba Arrhult

Ebba graduated as a veterinarian in January 2024 from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Uppsala. Her main area of ​​interest is orthopaedics but she also appreciates working with emergency care and emergency services. In parallel with her studies, Ebba has worked as an assistant to private veterinarian Caroline Frisch, spent a summer with Florian Lackner in Gothenburg and did an Externship at Rossdales Veterinary Surgeons in Newmarket, England with a focus on orthopaedics. Before starting her internship, Ebba worked as a District Veterinarian in Rimbo.

Ebba spends a lot of time on her family’s horse farm in Sigtuna. She previously competed in eventing but has switched to show-jumping horses that she trains and competes with alongside her work and studies. 

Eduardo Sanchez

Eduardo has been working with us at the outpatient clinic at Sjöbacka since the summer of 2022.

He graduated in 2020 from the Complutense University of Madrid in Spain. During his studies, he was involved as a collaborative student at the university’s Department of Surgery and Internal Medicine. After graduation, he completed a postgraduate course in physiotherapy and equine rehabilitation. He is interested in equine podiatry and aims to do further studies in podiatric medicine. Eduardo has also had time to do two internships, one at Hospital Sierra de Madrid, and the second in Belgium, at Via Nova Equine service, with a focus on sport horses.

Eduardo’s main interests are orthopaedics, biomechanics, podiatry and horse ethology. 

Emma Lassa

Emma graduated in 2014 from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Uppsala. In parallel with her studies, she worked as an assistant at the University Animal Hospital Horse Clinic and at Mälaren Horse Clinic. During her time at university, Emma also managed to do an externship at the Animal Health Trust in Newmarket, England with the world-leading orthopaedist Sue Dyson. She later took another externship at an equine clinic in New Jersey, USA. After graduating, Emma did her first internship at Mälaren Hästklinik before moving to Östersund to work as a clinical veterinarian on horses, covering everything from lameness to medical cases and surgeries. Since 2018, she has been back at MHK’s Sigtuna practice as an orthopaedist with a special interest in performance impairment. In addition to orthopaedics, Emma has taken the first two of the three courses in the Swedish further education in dentistry.

Emma is affiliated with both the international equine orthopaedic society ISELP and the Swedish specialist education in horses.

Before her studies and work took up too much time, Emma competed in eventing. Her mother still runs a small breeding of Swedish half-bloods focused on jumping/terrain on the farm in Hälsingland where Emma grew up. 

Emma Odelros

Emma is a trained veterinarian at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Uppsala and graduated in 2015. She then started working with us in Sigtuna. She has completed the majority of her specialist training with us at Mälaren Hästklinik, while also devoting herself to research and further training at several universities and larger equine hospitals around Europe. Since 2020, Emma has been able to call herself a European Specialist in Internal Medicine (Dipl. ECEIM).

Emma mainly works in emergency care and medical investigations at the clinic in Sigtuna. Thanks to her background in trotting, Emma is especially interested in medical causes of reduced performance in sport horses and you can often find her at the clinic’s treadmill or at a nearby trotting or galloping track, where she performs work tests and examines the heart and/or airways of horses that are under heavy strain. 

Eva Olsson

Eva studied at the Uppsala School of Veterinary Medicine from 2007 to 2013. After her studies, she worked at the equine clinic at the University Animal Hospital in Uppsala and then did an internship in the USA at an equine clinic in New Jersey. Eva also had the chance to work in the exciting competition area in Wellington, Florida for three months. Eva has worked at the clinic since 2014 and is mainly interested in imaging diagnostics, orthopaedic problems in horses and rehabilitation. She has had an ISELP certification since 2022, and is responsible for the clinic’s MRI examinations as well as being marketing manager at the clinic.

Away from work, Eva spends time with her Irish mare Majsan, her partner and son and their dogs Bosse and Svante. 

Frida Nilsfors

Frida graduated from SLU Uppsala in January 2018. After that, she had a district veterinary position on Gotland and then in Vännäs. In the summer of 2018, she started an internship here at Mälaren Hästklinik. 

Frida also had an externship at Scone Equine Hospital in Australia, where she focused on intensive care and foal care. She has a great interest in stud farming and has worked as a stud veterinarian at Menhammar Stuteri and Broline International, among others.

Frida’s has had a life-long interest in horses and worked with horses in trotting stables, riding stables and at a riding school before her undertaking her veterinary studies. In her spare time she is deeply involved in the family’s breeding of half-blooded horses and trotting horses. She mostly rides dressage herself and thinks that the training and education of young horses is the best thing there is. 

Giulia Chiatti

Giulia graduated from the University of Perugia, Italy, in 2016. During her studies, she worked at the university’s own horse clinic. She then did several externships at various clinics in Europe before starting an internship at Equine Clinic Burg Müggenhausen in Germany, where she later got a job. After that, there was another internship in equine sports medicine in England at Andre Buthe Equine Clinic. Before moving to Sweden Giulia spent the past two years working as a single-person veterinarian practice in Italy, focusing on orthopaedics and sport horses, which is her great interest in veterinary medicine. Giulia still has a band of horses in Italy but has brought three dogs with her when she moved to Sweden. 

Inge tog sin veterinärexamen 2006 från Ghent University i Belgien. Efter sin utbildning gjorde hon ett års internshipprogram och sedan en residency (specialist utbildning) i häst internmedicin på samma universitet. I januari 2011 blev Inge diplomate ECEIM eller så kallad europeisk specailist inom internmedicin på häst och kort därefter flyttade hon med sin man till Sverige för att börja arbeta på Evidensia Hästsjukhuset i Strömsholm. Där hon jobbade som anställd fram till 2017. Under 2017 startade Inge ett eget företag där hon bedrev konsultarbete inom internmedicin på häst på flera hästkliniker i Sverige (Husaby Hästklinik i Skara, Bergsåkers Hästklinik i Sundvall samt Evidensia Specialist hästsjukhuset Strömsholm). I 2022 blev hon åter anställd på Evidensia Specialist Hästsjukhuset Strömsholm för att sedan i april 2024 börja jobba hos oss på Mälaren Hästklinik i Sigtuna. Inge jobbar med alla typer av internmedicinska problem, i dagsläget mest på vår poliklinik avdelning. Fritiden ägnas åt familjen, hunden Oscar och familjens ponnyer.

Izabella Granswed-Billow 

Izabella graduated in 2014 from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Uppsala. During her studies, she worked as an assistant at the Specialist Horse Hospital in Strömsholm. Starting in 2013, she worked for three years as a veterinarian at Evidensia Horse Hospital Stav before moving to Mälaren Hästklinik in the spring of 2016. Her special interests are orthopaedics, chiropractic, ultrasound diagnostics and impaired performance in riding. Izabella has been certified in ISELP, an international specialist training course in equine orthopaedics, since December 2020. In 2025, she also became certified in chiropractic through FES (Focus on the Equine Spine), which is a two-year further education course in the Netherlands for veterinarians and physiotherapists.

Before her veterinary studies, she rode in the Swedish Junior National Dressage Championships and Eventing Championships on ponies and in the Swedish Junior National Dressage Team. Most recently, she has started competing with an Icelandic horse and rode her first four-gait Swedish Championship in 2025. Izabella has been the Swedish national veterinarian for Icelandic horses since 2017. 

Johan Henriksson 

Johan has worked at the clinic since 2015. He started as an assistant but has since graduated from SLU in 2024 as a veterinarian. During his studies, he worked in parallel as a veterinary assistant and was a student ambassador for VetPD and has participated in many of their courses.

He is particularly interested in orthopaedics and diagnostic imaging.

Johan has bred several young horses that have been successful in both show jumping and dressage. He himself has put riding aside and today prefers to spend time with his family and dog, preferably out in the woods and fields. 

Johanna Eklund

Johanna was educated at SLU in Uppsala and graduated in 2007. She then worked as a district veterinarian in the horse-loving Kungsbacka area for a few years before moving home to Östergötland to start at the Horse Clinic in Mantorp in 2014. Johanna has been working at our clinic in Linköping since 2020 and is particularly interested in lameness and rideability examinations, teeth and reproduction. She has further education in equine dentistry (parts 1 and 2) and a diploma and is affiliated with ISELP.

Johanna grew up with horses. Her family has been breeding Icelandic horses since the 1980s and she has competed on Icelandic horses at the national level as well as jumping and dressage on ponies. Now she has taken over the family farm and runs breeding and boarding stables on a smaller scale. There are also a few ponies on the farm for the children. Her spare time is spent with the family and in the stables and when there is time, preferably in the garden. 

Josefine Gorgén 

Josefine graduated in 2020 from the University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences in the Czech Republic, Brno. After graduation, she worked at the District Veterinary Clinic of Norrköping with a special interest in horses. Josefine is doing a short internship and then work as a trainee in the dental department. Her free time is usually spent on horseback or on the climbing wall. 

Lié Rosendahl Numar 

Lié graduated in 2010 from the University of Veterinary Medicine in Košice, Slovakia. During her studies, she worked as an animal caretaker at various horse clinics in Sweden and also did externships at horse clinics in England, the Netherlands, Belgium and Ireland. After graduation, she worked for a few years as a district veterinarian in Skåne with horses and large animals. In 2014, she came to Mälaren Hästklinik and now works a couple of days a month at our clinic in Sjöbacka.

Lié is particularly interested in orthopaedics, performance problems and ultrasound diagnostics and is affiliated with the international orthopedic training, ISELP. She also has a great interest and further training in dental and oral cavity problems in horses.

Lié’s has had a great interest in horses since her childhood. She has trained and competed in both show jumping and eventing, and her free time is spent with family and children, friends, training and her dogs. 

Lina Laakko 

Lina graduated in January 2022 from SLU. During her studies, she worked as a large animal veterinarian at the District Veterinarians in Vännäs and Rimbo and also performed several externships at horse clinics in Finland. After graduating, she completed an internship with us here at Mälardalen Hästklinik and stayed for a while before moving to Belgium. In Belgium, she did a six-month specialised surgical internship at Equitom Equine Clinic. Now she is back at MHK and you can find her in the surgery, the care department and the emergency room. Her goal is to become an equine surgeon because she finds emergency care very stimulating.

Lina has dressage ponies at home back in Finland, and in her personal life she has a keen interest in gastronomy. 

Maria Laudon 

Maria graduated in veterinary medicine from SLU Uppsala in 2008 and has since worked as a district veterinarian, at a horse clinic, a stud farm and in private veterinary practice.

She started working at Mälaren Hästklinik in 2021. Maria’s specialist interest is orthopaedics and she is affiliated with ISELP. Maria works at the clinic in Sjöbacka and also at Runsten, and she spends her free time with her family. 

Rebecca Finne 

Rebecca graduated from Szent Istvan University in Hungary in 2015, and during her studies there she did internships at many different clinics around the world (England, Denmark, Norway, Australia). After her education, Rebecca worked at Skara Animal Hospital for 9 months before moving to England to do her internship at B&W Horse Hospital in Gloucestershire. After that, Rebecca moved to Scotland and worked for four years at an equine clinic and trained to get a “Certificate in Advanced Veterinary Practice” during this time. She has been working with us at our Sigtuna practice since the beginning of 2022.

Rebecca is currently doing a residency in ECVDI/training as a radiologist in collaboration with SLU Animal Hospital (UDS).

Before going to university, she rode dressage as a Young Rider and junior for Norway, and taught dressage at a riding school for many years. 

Sandra Wiessler 

Sandra was educated at Szent Istvan University in Hungary and graduated in 2003. After a year as a district veterinarian in Enköping and Sala, Sandra moved to Germany where she completed her doctorate in large animal surgery at the University of Leipzig. She then worked in Germany at the Tierärztliche Klinik für Pferde Großwallstadt in clinic reception, outpatient services and emergency services. When she moved back home to Sweden, Sandra worked at the Hästkliniken in Norrköping for five years. She is now part of the Royal College for Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS) programme for further education in horses (CPD).

Sandra has worked here at Mälaren Hästklinik in Linköping since 2016 where she receives patients. Her specialist areas are lameness/back examinations, rideability problems and rehabilitation. Her free time is largely spent with family, friends, the family’s dogs and horse, and traveling. 

Sara Nikolausson 

Sara works with us at the outpatient clinic in Sjöbacka. Sara graduated from the Warsaw University of Life Sciences in January 2019, and since then she has furthered her education with both an internship and trainee programme in orthopaedics at MHK.

Her main interest are orthopaedics, horse biomechanics and impaired performance when riding. Sara is affiliated with the international orthopaedic training body, ISELP.

Sara has a long background with horses and worked as a rider before her veterinary studies: she has competed up to Msv A in show jumping. She spends her spare time in the stable, on her mountain bike and with her family. 

Sara Weidenblad 

Sara graduated from SLU in 2019, and then completed a 12-month trainee programme in orthopaedics with us here at MHK. Sara has also completed IAVC’s training in veterinary chiropractic in Germany. She previously worked as a research assistant for Marie Rhodin at SLU with objective movement analysis systems.

Sara is a life-long horse lover and was raised on a horse farm in Nykvarn. Her main interests are horse training, riding lessons, biomechanics and orthopaedics. In her everyday life, she spends her time with her family and runs a company in the horse sector with her husband Mats. She has advanced show jumping qualifications for 130 jumping. Sara works in Sigtuna and is affiliated with ISELP. 

Sofia Wulcan 

Sofia graduated from the veterinary programme in Uppsala in 2017. During her studies, Sofia also worked part-time as a nurse at the University Animal Hospotal (UDS) Equine Clinic. When she graduated, she started an internship here with us at Mälaren Hästklinik.

After that year was over, Sofia started working at Evidensia Hästkliniken Mantorp, before returning to us in the fall of 2020. Nowadays she works at our clinic in Linköping dealing with a mix of cases in orthopaedics, medicine and dental examinations. She is also on call in Sigtuna.

Sofia is enrolled in the Swedish specialist training in horses. In her free time, she and her husband are renovating their house and growing crops in their garden. 

Therése Lundberg 

Therése was educated at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Uppsala. During her studies, she developed a special interest in equine oral cavity and teeth treatment. She is also one of the few veterinarians in Sweden who can call herself an ‘Equine Dentist’ after taking extensive further training in teeth and then examination by Ove Wattle and Torbjörn Lundström. Therése has also studied equipment-related injuries in the oral cavity of horses and wrote her thesis on the same subject.

Therése started working with us in 2016, initially for one or two days a month, but since the summer of 2019 has been working three days a week at our Sigtuna practice where she deals exclusively with horse dental care. She receives both internal customers and referral cases. 

Away from work Therése spends time with her own horses, family and likes to go running. 

Tina Hansen 

Tina graduated from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Uppsala in 2021. After graduating, she worked as a district veterinarian in Stenungsund. In the spring of 2022, she began an internship at Mälaren Hästklinik. After completing her internship, Tina has continued to work in our ward and emergency department. In May 2024, Tina started a European specialist training in internal medicine (ECEIM Residency) with Anna Kendall as a supervisor. You will mainly meet her at the medical reception in Sigtuna, in connection with emergency cases or inpatients in the ward.

Outside of work, most of her spare time is spent on various forms of physical activity – everything from climbing and running to road cycling and skiing. Tina also hopes to soon be able to resume her interest in horse riding! 

Tina Toiviainen 

Tina works with us in Sigtuna in the outpatient department, and is furthering her education through a traineeship with a focus on orthopaedics. She graduated from SLU in Uppsala in January 2022. During her studies, Tina worked as a technical assistant in our ward in Sigtuna and for a summer at the clinic in Hölö. She has also had time to do an internship with us here in Sigtuna.

Tina grew up with both riding and trotting horses in Ostrobothnia, Finland, and she spends her free time mainly in the stable with her own horse. 

Tobias Wrangberg 

Tobias graduated from the veterinary programme in Uppsala in January 2017 and began an internship here at Mälaren Hästklinik during the summer of 2017. The internship ended in May 2018 and he now works at the outpatient clinic in Sigtuna, primarily with lameness examinations. Tobias is passionate about everything to do with the horse’s musculoskeletal system and, like many others at the clinic, he is affiliated with the international specialist training ISELP. When Tobias examines the horses, he often simultaneously performs a so-called objective movement analysis with Sleip to get objective values ​​on how the horses move as a complement to the rest of the examination. Before Tobias began his veterinary studies, he worked in a show jumping stable for a couple of years and competed in show jumping up to the 140 level.

His free time is spent largely in the stable with his own and his partner’s horses, and he also tries to travel when the opportunity arises. 

Tove Särkinen 

Tove graduated as a veterinarian from SLU Uppsala in January 2006 and has since worked partly in private practice with a focus on equine dentistry, partly as a consultant and partly as an employee at an animal hospital. Tove’s areas of expertise are internal medicine investigations and equine dentistry, in which she has received further training and to which she has devoted a large part of her work in recent years. Tove works mainly at the clinic at Sjöbacken, but she also drops in to our other clinics sometimes and makes occasional home visits. Her free time is spent with her family and her own horses.