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Faculty-list will be continuously updated
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Katarina Bohm
Registered nurse 1989, Red Cross Nurse School. Worked at the department of cardiology, Södersjukhuset, Stockholm since 1995, mainly with clinical trials. Began doctoral studies in 2005 at Karolinska Institutet, Departement of Clinical Science and Education, Section of Cardiology Södersjukhuset, Stockholm. The title of the thesis is: “Bystander CPR. Different aspects on early treatment of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest”, which includes the large telephone CPR study, TANGO. Planned dissertation in December 2009. Since fall 2007 chairman of the Working Group for EMS Dispatch and Telephone-CPR in the Swedish CPR Council.
So far, main author of 2 publications including one published in Circulation 2007, co-author in 3 publications.
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Guttorm Brattebø
He is the Director of Prehospital Emergency Services, Bergen Health Trust, Norway. He is a trained anaesthesiologist with a keen interest in quality improvement and patient safety, and one of the founders of BEST (better and systematic trauma care). He will challenge us on how to make trauma and emergency care safer for the patient.
- Airway and trauma management by doctors – licence to kill? How we forgot to include quality
of care and patient safety in our calculations.
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Per P. Bredmose
He works in Department of Anaestehesia and Intensive Care at Bærum Hospital in Norway. Despite being trained in Denmark he has travelled extensively working with prehospital care in Australia, Denmark, England and now in Norway. He has an interest in education, enhancing team performance, simulation and training of prehospital care providers and "Making it happen for The Team".
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Maaret Castrén
She is the first, and only, professor in Emergency Medicine in Sweden. She works at Karolinska Institutet at Södersjukhuset. She is a member of the board of both the Swedish and the Finnish Resuscitation Council. She is also the Head of the Prehospital Section of the European Society of Emergency Medicine, and currently involve in the SSAI program in Advanced Emergency Medicine as responsible of the research and educational part of the program.
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Peter Dieckmann
He is PhD, is work- and organizational psychologist, working with simulation since 1999 and simulation in health care since 2001. He is working with the Danish Institute for Medical Simulation (DIMS) at the Copenhagen University Hospital in Herlev. Peter is researching the use and optimization of simulation as well as doing research on human factors using simulation. Another special interest of his is the training of simulation instructors in an international group (www.eusim.org <http://www.eusim.org> ). Peter is vice president of the Society in Europe for Simulation Applied to Medicine (SESAM) and Chair of the Research Committee of the Society for Simulation in Health Care (SSH).
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Hans Friberg
Director, Department of Emergency Medicine, Lund University Hospital. He is Worksheet author for G2010, ALS committee (ILCOR), member of the Board and vice chairman, Swedish Resuscitation Council and Chairman of the Hypothermia Network. Research interests are Neuroprotection – hypothermia treatment and prognostication of patients after cardiac arrest (Hypothermia Network) and Sepsis – Investigator in the LIPOS-trial 2004-2006 at ICU Lund. Sponsored by GSK. Investigator TRIANGLE-study 2006-2007, sponsored by Takeda.
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Trude Grønlund
She has worked within the Health sector since 1995 in different roles and positions and on different levels of the service. The last 6 years she has been working with Strategic service planning in the Regional Health Board of Northern Norway and before that (1995-2002) as Head of Strategic service planning in the County Council. She has also worked in management positions in acute hospitals, both as Deputy Chief Executive, HR Director and Project Director. Her main role in the years within the Health sector has been in Strategic Service Planning and Change Management and innovation. From 1989 till 1995, she was working as the County Council’s Head of Negotiation with contracts, employment laws, negotiations with the unions, leadership training and general HR. Before 1989, she worked within the County Council as Project Director with regional planning and development. Her basic education and training is as a teacher in further education for children with learning disabilities.
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Björn Gunnarsson
He is certified in pediatrics, pediatric critical care medicine and anesthesiology. He works at Akureyri Hospital in Iceland. He is an assistant professor at the University of Akureyri. Björn received his training in pediatrics and pediatric critical care medicine in the USA and subsequently underwent further training in anesthesiology in Norway. He took interest in emergency medicine and transportation during his work as a flight physician in the USA. He is now the medical director of fixed wing air ambulance in Akureyri.
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Tina Gaarder
She is a GI/trauma surgeon and Head of the Trauma Unit at Oslo University Hospital, Ullevål. She is engaged in trauma care both on a clinical, educational, administrative and scientific level, with a heavy international involvement in trauma surgical education. She has her trauma training from the US and South Africa. She is the chair of the Norwegian Surgical Society Committee on Trauma and involved in the newly founded NOTAK (Norwegian Society for Trauma, Emergency and Disaster Medicine).
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Steinar Hunskaar
He is professor of general practice, Department of Public Health and Primary Health Care, University of Bergen, Bergen. He is also the Dean of the Research curriculum, School of Medicine, University of Bergen. He is MD and PhD from University of Bergen and has also a Bachelor degree of administration. Dr. Hunskaar is an approved specialist in general practice in Norway, and has his clinical practice with responsibility for 425 persons in a local community.
Professor Hunskaar is also the director of The National Centre for Emergency Primary Health Care, established by The Norwegian Ministry of Health and Care Services. The centre promotes knowledge about emergency primary health care through research and development in the field.
Hunskaar has published a large number of articles about clinical and epidemiological aspects of primary care, and has also edited several books, his most famous work is the 800 pp Norwegian textbook of general practice, a well known work all over Scandinavia, which came in its second edition in 2003. He has also received national and international awards for teaching and research activities.
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Tor Ingebrigtsen
He is CEO at the University hospital of North Norway since 2007. He is a specialist in neurosurgery, and has been head of the neurosurgery department for 8 years and medical director of the regional health authorities for 2 years before he took position as CEO. Ingebrigtsens research has focused on spine surgery, subarachnoid hemorrhage and head injuries, with a special interest for the organisation of the services and development of evidence based guidelines and clinical quality registries.
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Niels Juul
He is an anaesthesiologist and has for the past ten years worked in neuroanaesthesia and neurointensive care. Additionally he has worked at the anaestheisologist manned prehospital service in Aarhus for the past years.
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Poul Kongstad
As a clinically active neurosurgeon I discovered how important the prehospital segment is for the acute and traumatized patient. The efforts made in the operating theatre would have been useless if the patient was not given correct prehospital care. After spending 13 active years in the prehospital field in Skåne I have since year 2000 switched to a management position in prehospital care in the assembled Region of Skåne. Skåne is the most southern region of Sweden with 1.2 million inhabitants. This challenging task has convinced me that development of future health care, will concern early diagnostics, triage and treatment in the prehospital segment. This rapid transformation of ambulance services requires a lot of management and organisation as well as it is demanding for the individual paramedic, nurse or physician. A lot of work is to be done – we have an exciting time ahead of us!
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Ari Leppäniemi
He is the Chief of the Division of Emergency Surgery and Surgical Critical Care at the Meilahti Hospital, University of Helsinki Central Hospital in Helsinki Finland.
His background training includes General and Gastroenterological Surgery with subsequent training in Prehospital Medicine, Disaster Medicine and International Health Care. He has worked as a Field Surgeon for the International Red Cross for civil wars of Cambodia, Sudan and Afghanistan, and as a Volunteer Surgeon for the United Nations Development Programme in Tuvalu and as Senior House Officer for the Department of Community Medicine in Zaria, Nigeria.
Ari Leppäniemi is the President of the Finnish Society of Surgery, Past-President of the International Association for Trauma Surgery and Intensive Care (IATSIC), Head of the DSTC Subcommittee of IATSIC, Vice-President of the World Society of Emergency Surgery (WSES), Past-President of the European Association for Trauma and Emergency Surgery (EATES), Chair of the Emergency Surgery Section of the European Society for Trauma and Emergency Surgery (ESTES), Past-President of the Ambroise Pare International Military Surgery Forum (APIMSF), Head of the Trauma Section of the Scandinavian Surgical Society, Head of the Scandinavian Networking Group of Trauma and Emergency Management (Scantem), and Past-President of the Finnish Association of General Surgery. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Scandinavian Journal of Surgery, Editor of the European Journal of Trauma and Emergency Surgery, Associate Editor of the World Journal of Surgery, Associated Editor of the World Journal of Emergency Surgery, Corresponding Editor for Scandinavia of the Journal of Trauma, and member of the Editorial Board of 10 other journals. He has published over 100 original articles and more than 200 reviews, book chapters and editorials. He is also keen in developing basic and specialist medical education.
His hobbies include fishing, tennis, badminton, political and historical literature, movies and jazz.
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Freddy K. Lippert
Medical director of emergency medicine and pre-hospital care in the Capital Region of Denmark. He is an associate professor of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine at Copenhagen University and consultant for the Danish National Board of Health. His special interest and area of expertise is resuscitation, trauma care and emergency medicine.
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Walter Mauritz
Anaesthesiologist, intensivist, emergency physician, with special interest in critical care after trauma and neurotrauma. Outdoor hobbies: trekking, fly fishing, indoor hobbies: chess, snooker (plus some others best left unnamed).
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Jannicke Mellin-Olsen
She is a specialist in Anaesthesiology and holds a Diploma in Public Health, working in Asker and Bærum Hospital, Norway. She was the first Norwegian female doctor to complete full military services, and has done several missions abroad for the UN and Red Cross organisations. She is active in several medical societies, including former President of the Norwegian Society of Anaesthesiology and currently the Secretary of the Norwegian Society of Trauma, Acute and Disaster Medicine. She also is the President of the European Board of Anaesthesiology and the chairman of the Educational Committee of the World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists.
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Anders Rüter
I have a background as a surgeon doing mostly thyroid and breast cancer surgery. In the middle of the 90´s I started with teaching and training in disaster medicine and traumatology. For 6 years I was the local ATLS® director and I have conducted more than 100 different training sessions in prehospital management, strategic management and hospital management during Major Incidents. In 2006 I presented my PhD theses in Disaster Medicine on an evaluation technique using measurable performance indicators. Presently I’m working with development, research and education in Disaster Medicine on the Centre for Teaching and Research in Disaster medicine and Traumatology in Linköping, Sweden.
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Olav Røise
He is trained as an orthopaedic and trauma surgeon. Clinically he has a special interest in complicated pelvic injuries. He runs the national trauma referral program for these injuries at Ullevaal University Hospital, Oslo. His many publications are in the same field. He is the Medical Director of the coming Norwegian national trauma registry, and has led a national working group on the future national trauma organisation in Norway. He is also the medical director of ATLS Norway. Among more, he will discuss the following subjects:
- An update on orthopaedic injuries for everyone involved.
- All the new Trauma Training Courses – what to pick? ATLS, ETC, DSTC, BEST?
- International cooperation with focus on research, education and implementation
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Tom Silfvast
He has worked with and done research in pre-hospital emergency care and intensive care medicine for many years. One of his tasks will be to update us on:
- Accidental hypothermia – the Nordic experience
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Erik Sloth
He graduate from the Faculty of Health Sciences, Aarhus University January 1987 and became a specialist in anaesthesiology, The Danish National Board of Health, November 1999. Sloth has a Ph.D. degree in medicine based on the thesis entitled “Non-invasive evaluation of the anatomy and flow patterns in the human pulmonary artery”. Aarhus University December 1995, Faculty of Health Sciences. He also has a doctoral degree (DMSc) in medicine based on a thesis entitled “Hemodynamics of the human pulmonary artery - implications for transesophageal pulsed Doppler derived cardiac output measurements”. Aarhus University May 2000, Faculty of Health Sciences.
Sloth works as a Consultant in Cardiothoracic anaesthesia and intensive care medicine. He has given more than 300 talks and hands-on scessions in echocardiography and hemodynamics during the last 20 years.Experienced in TEE and TTE in both adults and children. Developed the FATE concept (Focussed Assessed Transthoracic Echocardiography).
He is owner of patent: A device for Fastening in the Cranial Bone and a Kit for Comprising such Device. US Patent; 6,432,058 B1, Aug. 13, 2002. European Patent; EP 1 018 935 B, March, 26, 2003.
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Stephen J M Sollid
He is an anaesthesiologist and currently work as a HEMS Physician at the Air Ambulance in Lørenskog outside Oslo, Norway. Since 2006 he is a PhD student at the University of Stavanger doing research on patient safety and risk management in health care. Main interests are in simulation based education, Crisis Resource Management and patient safety. He is also actively engaged in postgraduate education and training as ATLS, APLS and Train-the-Trainer instructor.
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Kjetil Søreide
He is a surgical trainee at the Stavanger University Hospital and Associate professor of surgery, Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Bergen. He has clinical and research interest in trauma and emergency surgery and has authored or co-authored several papers on these topics. In addition to being the Medical director of the Stavanger Trauma Registry, he is a co-editor of the Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine (SJTREM), past editor of the Journal of the Norwegian Medical Association, and a current Editor assistant to the British Journal of Surgery. He is a supervisor or co-supervisor in several ongoing research projects related to trauma, emergency surgery and gastrointestinal surgery.
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Wolfgang C. Ummenhofer
He is an associate professor and head of Prehospital Emergency Care, Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, University Hospital Basel, Switzerland
Ummenhofer is 55 year old, married and has 2 adult children. He has got Diplomas in Anesthesiology and Intensive Care.
He has working experience from Medical Director Basel EMS, Medical Coordinator Basel Swiss Air Rescue, Chair Rescue-Board Swiss Medical Society (Plattform Rettungswesen FMH), Chair Swiss Emergency Physician Course-Faculty and Vice-Chair ATLS Switzerland
He has 72 Publications (Original Papers, Reviews, Book Chapters), focus on neuraxial opioid kinetics, emergency medicine, medical simulation.
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