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Candidate for Dean Hanne Flinstad Harbo

Outstanding and innovative research and education for the benefit of both the individual and society

Hanne Harbo
Candidate for dean:
Hanne Flinstad Harbo,
​​​​Photo Ine Eriksen, UiO

Position: Adjunct Professor

Place of work: Institute of Clinical Medicine

Keywords for election programme

MED as organisation and workplace

  • Be a visible and engaged deanery that involves, collaborates, decides and implements measures in open processes that promote outstanding and innovative research and education
  • Establish new meeting places and renewed collaboration with employees, students and partners
  • Develop closer collaboration with hospitals and other partners, including the Life Sciences Initiative, global health, new OUS, renewed study programmes and research
  • Be a driving force for good organisational and administrative solutions that benefit both employees and students

Studies

  • Strengthen incentives for outstanding teaching and further develop study programmes so that these also in the future are groundbreaking and attractive
  • Simplify and clarify the management and organisation of study programmes, and strengthen the collaboration between administrative and scientific staff
  • Strengthen the academic communities' ownership of the programmes in order to promote subject-related and varied teaching, as well as prioritise feedback to students and teachers
  • Be a driving force for a good student and learning environment and stimulate international mobility for students and staff through, for example, Circle-U

Research and innovation

  • Improve PhD, postdoctoral and research-line programmes and facilitate good career development

  • Further develop collaborations in research and innovation with both internal and external partners concerning major societal challenges including global health, research ethics, core facilities, laboratories, comparative medicine and biobanks

  • Stimulate closer collaboration between the faculty and university hospitals, as well as the industry, concerning  translational research and clinical studies

  • Establish a roadmap for the further development of collaborative relationships with funders of research and innovation both nationally and internationally

See the full election programme for Team Flinstad Harbo

Team Flinstad Harbo

Team Flinstad Harbo
From left: Eli Feiring, Magnus Løberg, Hanne Flinstad Harbo, Jan Bjålie and Grete Dyb. Photo: Hanne Flinstad Harbo, UiO.
  • Dean: Hanne Flinstad Harbo, Adjunct Professor at Klinmed
  • Pro-Dean for Research and Innovation: Jan G. Bjålie, Professor at IMB
  • Pro-Dean for studies: Magnus Løberg, Associate Professor at Helsam
  • Vice-Dean for Research and Research Education (50%): Grete Dyb, Adjunct professor at Klinmed
  • Vice-Dean for Bachelor and masterstudies (50%): Eli Feiring, Professor at Helsam

Presentation of Team Flinstad Harbo

The team organizes its own information meetings in addition to all the meetings organized by the selection committee. 

Dean candidate Flinstad Harbo's background

Adjunct Professor Hanne Flinstad Harbo (MD, PhD, MHA) (b. 1963) graduated with a Candidate of Medicine degree from the University of Oslo in 1988, became a specialist in neurology in 1997, a Doctor of Medicine at the Department of Immunology, University of Oslo in 2003 and has a Master's Degree in Health Management (MHA) from the University of Oslo in 2015.

She has worked as a consultant and researcher at the Department of Neurology at Oslo University Hospital (OUS) since 2003, and as Adjunct Professor of Neurology at the Department of Clinical Medicine from 2010, where she was deputy and deputy to the head of department from 2015–2018. From 2018 she has been head of department for the Department of Neurology at OUS, which operates at both Ullevål and OUS, as well as a large research section that focuses on clinical studies and translational research.

At the Institute of Clinical Medicine, most positions are combined positions (combination of consultant and adjunct professor positions), and for over 12 years Flinstad Harbo has worked at least 40% of the time on research and teaching. She has led the Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Research Group at OUS/University of Oslo for many years, has supervised multiple PhD candidates, led local and international projects and research networks, been work package leader for EU projects, and has had research stays in Cambridge, England and at UCSF, USA.

She is co-editor of the leading Norwegian textbook on neuroscience for medical students. She has been and is a member of a number of Norwegian and international committees. For example, from 2018 she has been a member of the award committee for the University of Oslo’s awards for research, education, dissemination and innovation, and from 2020 has been a member of the Advisory Committee for the Kristian Georg Jebsen Foundation. From 2015 to 2018 she was also chair of the Norwegian Brain Council and helped lay the foundation for the first Norwegian "Brain Health Strategy".

Se her UiO personal presentation for more information.

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Published Aug. 15, 2022 10:56 PM - Last modified Apr. 19, 2023 9:27 AM