Position: Professor
Workplace: Division of Internal Medicine and Laboratory Sciences, Institute of Clinical Medicine
Presentation
I have been employed as a professor at the Institute of Clinical Medicine since 2003, and since 2004 as a Professor of Internal Medicine, combined with a 20% position as a senior consultant in cardiology.
I have served as Deputy Head of the Institute of Clinical Medicine and Head of Campus Ahus for two terms, from 2010–2014 and 2019–2026. I have extensive research experience and currently lead a KG Jebsen Research Centre as well as a Large interdisciplinary research project (Fellesløftet IV).
I also have substantial international research experience, including a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University and many years as an Associate Editor of Circulation, the world-leading cardiovascular journal. I am a member of both the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters and the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters.
Key elements of election programme
- Support researchers so that they can compete even more effectively nationally and internationally.
- Ensure that allocated research time is respected, and work towards inflation adjustment of UiO operating funds.
- Improve the professional future of early-career researchers through better funding, working conditions, supervision, and career pathways.
- Strengthen research support aimed at innovation and patenting.
- Work to ensure satisfactory office facilities for employees in senior academic positions at university hospitals.
- Ensure high quality, coordination, and continued development of teaching at the Faculty of Medicine.
- Strengthen collaboration between hospitals and the university on medical education.
- Improve teaching quality and student follow-up.
Proposal set by
- Dag Kvale
- Shuo-Wang Qiao