Disputaser - Side 14

M.Sc. Signe Tretteteig ved Institutt for klinisk medisin vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden philosophiae doctor (ph.d.): The impact of day care designed for people with dementia on their family caregivers.

M.sc. Tone Aase Fykerud ved Institutt for klinisk medisin vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden philosophiae doctor (ph.d.): Role of the NEDD4 family of E3 ubiquitin ligases in the regulation of intercellular communication via gap junctions.

MPH Krishna Kumar Aryal ved Institutt for klinisk medisin vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden philosophiae doctor (ph.d.): Alcohol consumption among Nepalese women of reproductive age: Predictors, anxiety and depression in pregnancy and postpartum period.

MD. Radek Fric ved Institutt for klinisk medisin vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden philosophiae doctor (ph.d.): The pathophysiology of Chiari malformation Type I with respect to the static and pulsatile intracranial pressure.

MD. Julia Smedbråten ved Institutt for klinisk medisin vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden philosophiae doctor (ph.d.): The lectin complement pathway in kidney transplant recipients: Effects on graft and patient survival.

Cand.psychol. Guro Hanevold Bjørkløf ved Institutt for klinisk medisin vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden philosophiae doctor (ph.d.): Coping and depression in older persons.

Cand.med. Sebastian Meltzer ved Institutt for klinisk medisin vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden ph.d.: «Circulating Markers of Immunogenicity and Metastasis in Combined-Modality Treatment of Rectal Cancer».

MA Ashley Muller ved Institutt for klinisk medisin vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden philosophiae doctor (ph.d.): Quality of life, substance use disorders, and social lives: Exploring one-year outcomes and intrinsic links.

MD Mushegh Sahakyan ved Institutt for klinisk medisin vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden philosophiae doctor (ph.d.): Laparoscopic surgery in the treatment of ductal adenocarcinoma in the distal pancreas: Surgical and oncological considerations.

M.Sc Charlotte Bille Jendresen ved Institutt for klinisk medisin vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden philosophiae doctor (ph.d.): Abeta aggregation and clearance in Alzheimer’s disease

MD Jana Kuhn ved Institutt for klinisk medisin vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden philosophiae doctor (ph.d.): Haemodynamics during Vaginal and Caesarean Delivery in Healthy Parturients.

Cand.psychol. Levi Røstad Kvitland ved Institutt for klinisk medisin vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden philosophiae doctor (ph.d.): Cannabis use in the early phase of bipolar disorder. A naturalistic longitudinal study of a first treatment sample.

Cand.psychol. Tiril Østefjells ved Institutt for klinisk medisin vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden philosophiae doctor (ph.d.): Metacognition in severe mental disorders.

Cand.med. Sigrun Losada Eskeland ved Institutt for klinisk medisin vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden philosophiae doctor (ph.d.): Appropriateness and quality of referral letters in gastroenterology- Development of a quality score and a referral improvement tool.

M.sc. Benedicte Kirkøen ved Institutt for klinisk medisin vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden philosophiae doctor (ph.d.): Does colorectal cancer screening cause psychological harm? Results from the randomized trial «Bowel Cancer Screening in Norway»

Cand.med. Lynn Mørch-Johnsen ved Institutt for klinisk medisin vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden philosophiae doctor (ph.d.): Brain structure imaging of apathy and auditory hallucinations in psychotic disorders.

Cand.med. Birgir Mar Gudbrandsson ved Institutt for klinisk medisin vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden philosophiae doctor (ph.d.): Takayasu arteritis in Norway (TANOR-study): An epidemiological and clinical study on patients in South-east Norway in the period 1999-2012.

M.pharm. Marte Jonsson ved Institutt for klinisk medisin vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden philosophiae doctor (ph.d.): Hypoxia-induced aggressiveness in cervical and prostate cancer. With special emphasis on gene regulation, metabolism and biomarkers.

Cand.med. Pål André Rønning ved Institutt for klinisk medisin vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden philosophiae doctor (ph.d.): Traumatic brain injury: challenges in prognostication and the impact of intracraníal pressure monitoring.

Cand.med. Maria Thomsen ved Institutt for klinisk medisin vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden philosophiae doctor (ph.d.): Factors Influencing Survival and Quality of Life in Treatment of Metastatic Colorectal cancer: Studies on the NORDIC-VII Cohort

Cand.med. Eli Taraldsrud ved Institutt for klinisk medisin vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden philosophiae doctor (ph.d.): Deciphering immune cell signaling in common variable immunodeficiency

M.Sc. Cecilie Aass Aasaaren ved Institutt for klinisk medisin vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden philosophiae doctor (ph.d.): Quantitative Proteomic Analyses of Tear Fluid in Graves’ Orbitopathy.

Cand.med. Rune Byrkjeland ved Institutt for klinisk medisin vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden philosophiae doctor (ph.d.): Effects of exercise training on exercise capacity, glycemic control and atherosclerosis in patients with type 2 diabetes and coronary artery disease.

Cand.med. Hilde Risstad ved Institutt for klinisk medisin vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden philosophiae doctor (ph.d.): Comparison of variants of gastric bypass and duodenal switch as treatment for severe obisity (BMI 50-60) in randomized controlled trails.

Cand.med. Jarle Sundseth ved Institutt for klinisk medisin vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden philosophiae doctor (ph.d.): The comparison of outcome after arthroplasty of fusion in single level cervical disc disease.

Cand.med. Shanmuganathan Limalanathan ved Institutt for klinisk medisin vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden philosophiae doctor (ph.d.): Effect of ischemic postconditioning on infarct size and left ventricular function. Results of the Postconditioning in ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction (POSTEMI) randomized trail.

Master i sykepleievitenskap Käthe Birgitte Meyer ved Institutt for klinisk medisin vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden philosophiae doctor (ph.d.): Donors’ health status and experiences ten years after kidney donation

Cand.med. Alice Gustavsen ved Institutt for klinisk medisin vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden philosophiae doctor (ph.d.): Targeting innate immune pathways in acute infectious and sterile inflammation – The role of complement.

M.Sc. Desiree Madah-Amiri ved Institutt for klinisk medisin vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden philosophiae doctor (ph.d.): Opioid overdoses and overdose prevention: The establishment of take-home naloxone in Norway.

M.Sc. Brita Fosser Olsen ved Institutt for klinisk medisin vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden ph.d.: «Development and evaluation of a systematic pain management algorithm for patients in intensive care units»

Cand.med. Bjørg Sjøblom ved Institutt for klinisk medisin vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden philosophiae doctor (ph.d.): Muscle measures in advanced non-small cell lung cancer: associations with survival and treatment toxicity

Cand.med. Monica Thallinger ved Institutt for klinisk medisin vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden philosophiae doctor (ph.d.): Newborn resuscitation in low-resource settings. Improved methods of bag-mask ventilation at birth.

Cand.med. Jan Cato Holter ved Institutt for klinisk medisin vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden philosophiae doctor (ph.d.): Etiology and outcome in adults hospitalized with community-acquired pneumonia. Observations from a prospective cohort study.

MD. Gert Huppertz-Hauss ved Institutt for klinisk medisin vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden philosophiae doctor (ph.d.): Health-related quality of life and fatigue in long standing inflammatory bowel disease. The IBSEN study.

Cand.med. Jørg Saberniak ved Institutt for klinisk medisin vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden philosophiae doctor (ph.d.): Arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy (ARVC)- Impact of exercise on cardiac outcome, differential diagnoses and risk stratification of arrhythmic events.

Cand.med. Lars Thomas Seeberg ved Institutt for klinisk medisin vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden philosophiae doctor (ph.d.): The impact of minimal residual disease in blood, bone marrow and lymph node metastases on survival in patients with colorectal liver metastases.

Cand.scient. Dag Andre Nymoen ved Institutt for klinisk medisin vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden philosophiae doctor (ph.d.): Identification of prognostic gene expression signatures in metastatic ovarian carcinoma effusions, primary serous carcinoma and solid metastasis.

MD. István Zoltán Rigó ved Institutt for klinisk medisin vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden philosophiae doctor (ph.d.): Flexor tendon repair in fingers: Suture technique, postoperative rehabilitation and predictors of outcome.

M.sc. Maria Belland Olsen ved Institutt for klinisk medisin vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden philosophiae doctor (ph.d.): To the Heart of NEIL3 –Experimental studies on NEIL3 DNA glycosylase in cardiac disease

Cand.med. Anne Günther ved Institutt for klinisk medisin vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden philosophiae doctor (ph.d.): Imaging in the diagnosis and prediction of allograft vasculopathy after heart transplantation.

M.sc. Ann Rita Halvorsen ved Institutt for klinisk medisin vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden philosophiae doctor (ph.d.): Circulating microRNAs; biomarkers for early detection, prediction of therapy response and prognosis in cancer patients.

MD Volker Moritz ved Institutt for klinisk medisin vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden philosophiae doctor (ph.d.): Improving colonoscopy services. Ten years of quality assurance in the Norwegian Gastronet quality improvement initiative. A study of the Norwegian Quality Register Gastronet.

Cand.med. Christian Prebensen ved Institutt for klinisk medisin vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden philosophiae doctor (ph.d.): Immune activation and regulation in chronic HIV infection: Implications for immune reconstitution and therapeutic strategies.

M.sc. Eva Kristine Klemsdal Henriksen ved Institutt for klinisk medisin vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden philosophiae doctor (ph.d.): T-cell receptors and human leukocyte antigens in primary sclerosing cholangitis.

M.sc. Guro Lindviksmoen Astrup ved Institutt for klinisk medisin vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden philosophiae doctor (ph.d.): Depressive symptoms, pain, and quality of life in patients with head and neck cancer before, during, and after radiotherapy.

MD. Piotr Wladyslaw Sowa ved Institutt for klinisk medisin vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden philosophiae doctor (ph.d.): MRI biomarkers in multiple sclerosis. Perfusion weighted imaging and restriction spectrum imaging.

M.Sc. Guro Søe Eriksen ved Institutt for klinisk medisin vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden philosophiae doctor (ph.d.): Psychomotor-stimulating properties of heroin, 6-acetylmorphine and morphine. Studies on locomotor activity and sensitization in an animal model.

Cand.med. Jon Runar Christiansen ved Institutt for klinisk medisin vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden ph.d.: «Cardiac effects in long-term survivors of childhood lymphoma and acute lymphoblastic leukemia».

Cand.med. Christian Owesen ved Institutt for klinisk medisin vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden ph.d.: «Symptoms, Diagnosis and Outcomes in PCL Injuries».