Researcher Busenur Kizilaslan
Busenur Kizilaslan will be working on an EU project aimed at developing a prototype of the Clinical Decision Support System that could be used to assist clinicians in personalized suicide risk management. Busenur is a statistician with a PhD in machine learning. She will join the register-based research group, led by professor Ping Qin and contribute to the project with her particular interest in uncertainty quantification and trustworthy artificial intelligence methods in healthcare.
Doctoral research fellow Emma Skei
Emma Skrei will use register data to investigate how losing a parent in adolescence affects suicide risk and deliberate self-harm (DSH). Which factors linked to family and mental healthcare may contribute to redusing the risk? The project is a cooperation between The National Centre for Suicide Research and Prevention and Acute Medicine Research Group at The University of Oslo. It is financed by the South-Eastern Norway Regional Health Authority. Skei is a former nurse and has a master’s degree in public health. Her supervisors are professors Ping Qin and Tine Grimholt.
Researcher Carl-Aksel Sveen
Carl-Aksel Sveen works on calculating economic costs of suicide in Norway. This knowledge may be useful in suicide prevention. Sveen is a psychologist and economist with many years of clinical experience, he has been working with children as well as adults. Further, he has conducted research on the bereavement reactions of those left behind after suicide, as well as socio-economic costs of personality disorders.
Doctoral research fellow Nora Vennesland
Nora Vennesland is looking into a pilot project in Norwegian suicide prevention called “Livslosen”. The project offers a short-term intervention to people with suicidal problems who are not in need of specialist treatment. Vennesland will investigate whether Livslosen is safe and helpful for people with suicidal problems. Vennesland has several years of clinical experience. Her main supervisor is researcher and psychologist Fredrik A. Walby.
PhD student Kristoffer Bele Ødegård
Bele Ødegård will use data from the Norwegian Surveillance System for Suicide to investigate suicide after discharge from mental health services. His PhD is titled “Patient safety factors associated with suicide after discharge from mental health services” and is financed by the South-Eastern Norway Regional Health Authority. Ødegård’s supervisors are Anita Johanna Tørmoen and Frederik Walby. Kristoffer is a specialist in child and adolecent clinical psychology. He has former work experience in psychotherapy and evidence based implementation, training and supervision of psychological treatments, mainly Dialectical behaviour therapy.