Academic interests
Acute and long-term serious mental health challenges and facilitating their recovery, including:
Substance dependence, including opioid- and alcohol dependence, and poly-substance use
Psychotic states and disorders including bipolar disorder and schizophrenia spectrum disorders
Pharmacological and non-pharmacological aids to recovery and harm prevention
Courses taught
- https://www.uio.no/studier/emner/medisin/helsefag/HELSEF4302/
Background
PhD in 2010 and Postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Oslo, Medical Faculty, within investigator-initiated trials of long-acting naltrexone to prevent relapse to heroin addiction & - overdose. Funded by public grants.
Clinical (licensed) psychologist and specialist psychologist in mental health & addiction
Lecturing assignments at the University of Oslo since 1998.
Awards
- Acute psychiatry network prize in 2018 (with PhD candidate as lead author)
- 2022 Henk Nijman award for best abstract in research on coercion reduction (with postdoctoral candidate as lead author)
Appointments
- 2022: Associate professor at the University of Oslo