Academic interests
- Cardiovascular disease prevention, in particular behavioural medicine and patient perspective
- Lifestyle behaviour and adherence to treatment among patients with atherosclerotic vascular diseas
- Clinical and molecular research on lipid-lowering therapy, especially statins
- Cardiovascular intervention studies
- Beta blocker treatment after myocardial infarction
- Development and testing of psychological interventions for anxiety, depression and insomnia
- Remote monitoring at home follow-up after heart failure
Courses taught
MED2200 – Medisinstudiet, modul 2 – Universitetet i Oslo (uio.no)
MED3300 – Medisinstudiet, modul 3 – Universitetet i Oslo (uio.no)
MED6800 – Medisinstudiet, modul 8 – Universitetet i Oslo (uio.no)
Supervisor for 7 PhD candidates and three post-doctoral fellows Forskningsprosjekter – NORCOR
Background
2008: MD, Norwegian University of Technology and Science
2010: PhD in clinical medicine, Norwegian University of Technology and Science
2019: Specialist in internal medicine
2021: Specialist in cardiology
Main position
- Head of research, Department of Medicine, Drammen hospital, Vestre Viken Trust
Awards
2023: Scientific award for young reseachers at the European Society of Cardiology preventive congress
2018: Best publication in Vestre Viken Trust
Appointments
2022 -current: Member of the adisory board, The National Health Association
2019 -current: Co-chair the national task force group in preventive cardiology
2022 -current Board member of the NKT for FH
2022: Senior advisor for the National Medicine Agency
2020-2022: Senior advisor for the Directorate of Health
Research groups, affiliations and collaboration
- Head of the research group NORCOR – Norwegian cororonary prevention research group
- Member of Psychosocial Aspects of Somatic Disease - Institute of Basic Medical Sciences (uio.no)
- Co-char for the bi-national BETAMI study - hjem
- Member of the executive steering commitee NorEx – CERG - NTNU
- Member fo the research group Iskemisk hjertesykdom - Institutt for klinisk medisin (uio.no)
- >50 national and >20 international collaborators