Ásgeir R. Helgason (born 1957) is an Icelandic scientist working at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden.
Since 2002 he has been an associate professor in psychology at the Departments of Oncology-Pathology and Public Health at the Karolinska Institutet and Reykjavik University, Iceland.
Ásgeir is best known for his population based research on sexual function[1] and emotional isolation[2] in elderly men and prostate cancer patients, patient trade-off[3] and his work on smoking cessation and quitlines.
[4] Helgason was a prime mover in the establishment of the Swedish and Icelandic national quitlines for smoking cessation (1998) and responsible for their development.
[5] Other work includes research on motivational interviewing and palliative care,[6] followed by an ethical analysis of facilitating death talk in end-of-life care.