ORCID: 0000-0002-8999-5424
Academic interests
- Ischemic stroke and intracerebral hemorrhage incl. epidemiology, prevention, acute treatment, imaging and prediction
- Headache/migraine/cluster headache incl. epidemiology, treatment effects, cardiovascular risk, biomarkers, genetics, epigenetics and imaging
- Cerebral Venous Thrombosis (epidemiology, risk factors, treatment and long-term prognosis
- General Practice/Neurology
- Mountain medicine, wilderness medicine, rescue medicine
Education/background
- 2022 to present: Part of Norwegian Research Centre for Headache NorHEAD, Norway
- 2019 to present: Senior consultant, Stroke Unit and Department of Neurology, Akershus University Hospital (Ahus), Norway
- 2017 to present: Associate professor, Department of General Practice, University of Oslo, Norway
- 2018-2022: Leader Work Package 2, Recruitment and Research of PraksisNett, a research infrastructure funded by Norwegian Research Council and the University of Oslo, Norway
- 2014-2017: Postdoctoral fellow, Department of General Practice, University of Oslo
- 2013-2019: resident, Department of Neurology, Akershus University Hospital
- 2014: Ph.d with the thesis “Brief Intervention for Medication-overuse headache in primary care”
- 2008-2014: PhD student - Department of General Practice, University of Oslo
- 2011: part-time at the central primary care emergency ward in Oslo
- 2010: General practitioner (part-time) in the municipality of Høyanger
- 2007-08: General practitioner and chief medical officer in the municipality of Høyanger
- 2005-07: Intern at Department of Medicine, Orthopedics and Surgery at Helse Førde hospital (Nordfjord/Førde) and the municipality of Balestrand
- 2004-05: Six months as resident doctor with students licentia practicandi at the Acute psychiatric ward, the University Hospital of Northern Norway (UNN)
- 2004 Medical students mandatory practice period at Longyearbyen Hospital, Svalbard 3 months
- 2003 Medical students mandatory practice period at Internal Medicine and Surgery, Hammerfest Hospital 2+2 months
- 2005: Medical degree (MD) University of Tromsø
- 1999-2005: Medical school, University Of Tromsø
Positions held
- 2024 to preset: European Stroke Organisation Working group for new guideline for PRES and RCVS
- 2022 to present: European Academy of Neurology Working group for new guideline for migraine treatment
- 2019 to present: Member of the Special Interest Group of Secondary headaches, International Headache Society (IHS)
- 2019 to present: Responsible for the eBrain interactive learning course on migraine and trigeminal autonomic cephalalgias for the European Academy of Neurology
- 2016 to present: Member of European Academy of Neurology (EAN) Scientific Panel Headache
- 2020-2023: Board member of the Nansen Neuroscience Network, NO
- 2019-2023: Member of the Reference group at the Norwegian Advisory Unit on Headache, St. Olav's Hospital, Trondheim, Norway.
- 2019-2022: Member of the Education Committee of the International Headache Society (IHS)
- 2018-2022: Norwegian representative International Headache Society and European Headache Federation
- 2017-2021: Board member and vice-chair of the Norwegian Headache Society
- 2014-2021: Board member of the International Headache Society (IHS) Trainees and Residents Special Interest Group
- 2013-2014: Member of the group “AG4 – kommunesektoren” in the national strategy process ”HelseOmsorg21”.
- 2012-13: Member of the project group within the Norwegian Medical Association (representing the College of General Practice), working with the plan for further
development of the Norwegian list patient system (“Opptrappingsplan for fastlegeordningen 2015-2020”). - 2012-2013: Board member of Oslo Legeforening (the largest local part of the Norwegian Medical Association)
- 2011-2015: Board member of LVS (Doctors in Scientific Positions) at the Norwegian Medial Association
- 2011-2015: Founding member of the Project Group (ALIS-utvalget) within the Norwegian College of General Practice, working with recruitment schemes for younger doctors into primary care
- 2010-12: Board member of the PhD forum at HELSAM (The institute of general practice and public health) , University of Oslo
- 2009-2016: Member of the Network Group for Out-Of-Hours Services at Norwegian College of General Practice (part of the Norwegian Medical Association)
Awards
- European Academy of Neurology (EAN) Investigator Award for the subspecialty Headache - 1st EAN Congress Berlin, Germany June 2015
- Norwegian Neurological Federation - National Headache fellowship 2018
- Best poster presentation at the Norwegian Neurology Congress 2018
- Forsberg og Aulies legat 2018
- Norwegian Neurological Federation – National Neurology Fellowship 2020
Project management experience (Project leader)
Completed studies
- 2013-2017 Long-term follow-up of a Brief intervention for Medication Overuse Headache – in primary care (own post.doc, funded by University of Oslo)
- 2016-2018 Neurology residents’ knowledge of the management of headache
- 2016-2019 Norwegian GPs experience and training in handling of headache patients
- 2020 Stroke during a pandemic (StrokePan)
- 2020 Neurology during a pandemic (NeuroPan)
Ongoing studies
- 2017- The Akershus aCute Headache Evaluation 1 (ACHE-1) study. Epidemiology, clinical presentation, treatment and follow-up of subarachnoid haemorrhage in a Norwegian population
- 2017- The Akershus Study of Ischemic Stroke and Thrombolysis 1 (ASIST-1)
- 2018- The Akershus Cerebellar Haemorrhage Evaluation study (ACHE-3)
- 2018- Epidemiology, clinical and radiological presentation and prognosis of cerebral venous thrombosis in a Norwegian population (NoCVT)
- 2019 - Job satisfaction, career and burn-out among neurologists in Norway
- 2020- Secondary prevention in Stroke - a nationwide register-linked prospective follow-up study in general practice
- 2020 - Intracerebral Haemorrhage in a Norwegian population - a prospective long-term follow-up study
- 2021- Exploring the biology, treatment and prognosis of cerebral venous thrombosis
Major International collaborations (all on-going)
- 2016 - HUNT All-In project Headache
- 2016 - International Cluster Headache Genetics Consortium
- 2018 - Different research projects on migraine, telemedicine, cluster headache, headache education, GPs handling of headache and medication-overuse headache with Danish Headache Centre, DK
- 2019 - HUNT All-In project Cerebrovascular diseases
- 2019 - International Migraine Genetics Consortium
- 2019 - International Headache Society Secondary headaches projects
- 2020 - The Global COVID-19 Stroke Registry led by Raul Nogueira and Thanh Nguyen, US
- 2021 - International Cerebral Venous Thrombosis Consortium
- 2021 - The Global COVID-19 CVT Registry led by Thanh Nguyen, US
- 2021 - International CVT consortium post-vaccine study led by Jonathan Couthino, Netherland
- 2021 - CVT-AIM (CVT and Autoimmune diseases), led by Dr. Sini Hiltunen, Helsinki, Finland
- 2022 - DOAC-IVT, led by David Seiffge, Bern, Switzerland
- 2022 - ICEBERG project, led by Bradley MacIntosh, Toronto, Canada
- 2023 - READOUT-ICH, led by Bradley MacIntosh, Toronto, Canada
- 2023 - Several projects in collaboration with David Seiffge and Thomas Meinel, Bern, Switzerland
- International treatment studies (investigator-initiated):
- National leader ExCOA-CVT (treatment study of CVT), led by prof. Jóse Ferro, Lisbon, Portugal
- National leader DOAC-CVT (treatment study of DOAC in CVT), led by prof. Jonathan Couthino, Amsterdam, Netherland
- PI at Akershus University Hospital- Biofeedback for migraine (BioCer) RCT, led by Tore Meisingset, St.Olavs, Norway
- PI at Akershus University Hospital – ELAN study, led by prof. Urs Fischer, Bern, Switzerland (completed)
Courses taught
- 2021- Headache Master Programme, Danish Headache Centre, University of Copenhagen, DK
- 2020- Censorship Headache Master Programme, Danish Headache Centre, University of Copenhagen, DK
- 2008-to present: Teaching and censorship in various terms (including final exams) in Medical School at the University of Oslo, NO
- 2008-to present: 5-10 yearly invited lectures for Norwegian neurology and GPs in training as a part of their educational activity to become certified specialists, NO
- 2019-2021: Teaching and lectures in final neurology term in Medical School at the University of Tromsø, Finmarksmodellen, NO
- 2010-12: Various lectures held twice a year at the Oslo Emergency ward for the doctors there as a part of their educational activity, NO
- 2010-12: Teaching CME groups about headache, NO
- 2010-12: Project and course leader for a CME course called Management of chronic headache in primary care – course held 11 times (15 hours each course)