Academic interests
- Adverse pregnancy complications linked to placental dysfunction and associations to premature maternal cardiovascular health.
- Fetal microchimerism, placental dysfunction and maternal cardiovascular health.
- Pregnancy biomarkers and health outcome for mother and offspring
- Molecular understanding of pregnancy complications (including preeclampsia and diabetes) and placental dysfunction
- Molecular understanding of ovarian cancer development (including borderline tumors) as well as other gynaecological malignancies
- Urogynaecology, improving preoperative and per operative assessments predicting postoperative urinary incontinence
- Biobank-based/ translational research, combining clinical and basic research
Courses taught
- University of Oslo, Module 6
- Respondible for Module 6 web learning pages, Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Background
Annetine Staff combines work as full-time Professor I at UiO (from 2015) and part time as Consultant and Head of Research (from 2016) at the Division of Gynaecology and Obstetrics at Oslo University Hospital.
Professor Staff is currently the head of the Research Center of Obstetrics and Gynecology (established in 2006 at location Ullevål), leading 13 members of own placenta/preeeclampsia research group and 30 other employees at PhD or senior researcher level at Oslo University Hospital, Division of Gynecology and Obstetrics.
Professor Staff received a medical doctor (MD/PhD) degree at the University of Oslo in 1987, and became in 1996 a certified Norwegian specialist in Gynecology and Obstetrics.
Her dissertation for the PhD thesis in medicine at the Medical Faculty, University of Oslo was in 2000, with the title "Preeclampsia and uteroplacental tissues: lipids, oxidative stress, and trophoblast invasion".
She was co-chair and acting chair of the Regional Committee for Medical Research Ethics, Southern Norway, from 2001-2006.
She was Director of Research and Development, Regional Health Authorities of South-Eastern Norway in 2009-10.
She has supervised 20 students to completed PhD in Medicine at the University of Oslo (2007-23), and is currently supervising 9 PhD students. In addition, she is currently supervising 5 students at The Medical Student Research Program at UiO ("forskerlinje": 6 completed).
Awards
- 2020: Teaching Award (Undervisningsprisen) 2020, Module 6, UiO (selected best teacher by the medical students).
- 2015: The “Researcher Award” (Forskningsprisen) from The Norwegian Gynecological Association (Norsk Gynekologisk Forening)
- 2014: Appointed “Jacob de Back lecturer”, University of Groningen, for Dutch Preeclampsia Society.
- 2013-14: Appointed “Litchfield Lecturer” by the University of Oxford.
- 2013: IFPA (International Federation of Placenta Associations) Award in Placentology (2013), "acknowledging outstanding contributions to the field of placentology, including the relationship with fetus and mother by established investigators. "
- 2006: Ullevål University Hospital Knowledge Award, for work on The Research Handbook.
- 2003-08: Director's reward for outstanding research, Ullevål University Hospital
Positions held
- Vice President ISSHP (International Society for the Study of Hypertension in Pregnancy) 2012-16. Executive Committee member of ISSHP (ongoing)
- Leader/Spokesperson of EPG (European Placenta Group) 2011-16
- Associate editor of Pregnancy Hypertension: An International Journal of Women's Cardiovascular Health (2021-ongoing)
- Member of Editorial board: HYPERTENSION (ongoing)
- Member of Executive and Steering Committee of Global Pregnancy CoLaboratory
- Head of the Obstetrics and Gynaecology committee of the Norwegian national publishing committee in Medicine (2011-)
- Head of the Clinical research advisory committee (Forskningsutvalget), Division of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, Oslo University Hospital (ongoing)
Collaboration
International Collaboration, main partners outside research group members
- PreventADALL consortium (partners in Sweden, Switzerland, Australia, Great Britain, Finland and Norway): leader of publication committee and member of steering board.
- Lee Nelson, Hilary Gammill and Sami Kaanan, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
- Christopher Redman and Antoniya Georgieva, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK
- Global Pregnancy CoLaboratory (USA, Canada, Europe, project cooperation with 28 international PI)
- Ralf Dechend and Florian Herse, Franz-Volhard-Clinic, Max Delbruck Center for Molecular Medicine, Department of Cardiology, Berlin, Germany
- Frans Claas, Sicco Scherjon, Leiden, Nederland
- Rebecca Troisi, National Cancer Institute, USA
- Thomas Kroneis, Graz, Austria
National collaboration, Norway, main partners
- Bente Halvorsen, Research Institute for Internal Medicine, OUS and UiO
- Mona Skjelland, Dept of Neurology, OUS
- Karin C. Lødrup Carlsen, Division of Paediatric and Adolescent Medicine OUS and UiO: The PreventADALL study
- Jens-Petter Berg, OUS and UiO
- Torbjørn Omland, UiO and Ahus
- Ben Davidson, Oslo University Hospital (OUH), Pathology Clinic (Norwegian Radium Hospital).
- Gitta Turowski, OUH, Pathology Clinic
- Dan Atar, Mette-Elise Estensen, Department of Cardiology, Oslo University Hospital
- Bill Louch, Institute for Experimental Medical Research, UiO
- Jone Trovik, Haukeland University Hospital, UiB
- Ane Gerda Zahl-Eriksen, Department of Gynaecological Cancer, OUS
- Goran Petrovski: Department of Ophthalmology , OUS