December 2018
We want to welcome back Gunhild Agdesteen to IGS. She will work as a higher executive officer in TVEPS. Elin Christine Gundersen has also started in a new position as a senior executive officer in TVEPS. We wish them the best of luck in their new poitions.
Elin Myhrvold takes over the HR work after Anja Bere preliminary, in anticipation of the announcement and employment of new HR consultant at IGS.
November 2018
We want to give a warm welcome to Trond Egil Hansen who is a new Assistant Professor (20 %) at IGS. He has his main position in Bergen Kommune.
We also warmly welcome Katja Isaksen as a researcher at the Centre for International Health (CIH). Her position is connected to CISMAC.
Welcome to IGS!
October 2018
We want to give a warm welcome to Magnus Vollset (picture) who is our new Associate Professor in Medical History.
We also give a warm welcome to Carmeliza Rosario. She is a Research Coordinator at the Centre for International Health (CIH).
September 2018
We have the pleasure to welcome Kirsti Nordstrand back to the department. She will start a new position.
She will be coordinating the Department’s Studies Section.
Welcome back, Kirsti!
August 2018
We want to give a warm welcome to Hanne Keyser Hegdahl who is a new Research Fellow. She will be a member of the group Global Health and be part of our Centre for International Health.
We also welcome Professor II Marit Grønning to the department. She has been employed at The Department of Clinical Medicine for several years, and she is now employed at IGS . She will be part of the group SAMLET which consists of community medicine, occupational and environmental medicine and health management, both nationally and internationally.
Welcome to IGS!
June 2018
This month we want to welcome a new Research Fellow to the department; Katrine Staats. In IGS’ organization she is a member of HELSEVIT (helsevitenskap) and connected to the Centre for Elderly and Nursing Home Medicine . You can read more about her project here.
Welcome to IGS!
May 2018
The Bergen Summer Research School (BSRS), will take place June 11th to June 21st and we are glad to welcome new employees . Thera Mjaaland (picture) is employed as Associate Professor and Krishna Babu Shrestha is employed as an Executive Officer. In addition we have three students helping out during the summer school; Elisabetta Radavelli, Francis Badiang Oloko and Jovita Amurwon. Good luck with BSRS 2018!
At the research group Global Health Priorities we wlcome new Postdoctoral Fellow Admassu N.Lamu!
We also have a new Research Fellow at our Centre of Excellence; CISMAC in Mweetwa Mudenda. Welcome to IGS!
April 2018
We want to give a warm welcome to Frøydis Bruvik (picture) who is employed as Associate Professor (100 %) in Nursing Science. In IGS’ organization she is a member of HELSEVIT (fargområdet helsevitenskap). Welcome to IGS!
March 2018
We want to welcome two new Research Fellows this month: Kathleen (Stand) Hiestand (picture) and Sahar Pahlavanyali! Stand is a member of the research group Lifestyle Epidemiology and Sahar is a member of the research group for General Practice.
In the administration we want to welcome our new Project Economist Ane Kathrine Lunde. She has her office in Kalfarveien.
Last, but not least, we want to welcome back Ane Erdal to IGS. She is a new Assistant Professor and will be teaching in Social Pharmacy. Welcome to IGS!
February 2018
We welcome Inger Haukenes (picure) as Associate Professor! She started February 12th and she is a member of the Physiotherapy Research Group.
At The Centre for International Health we welcome Ana Lorena Ruano as as Associate Professor II. We also congratulate Ingvild Hope on her new position at CIH as administrative coordinator!
We want to welcome two new Research Fellows. Hogne Vikanes Buchvold started in mid-January and Marianne Lønnebotn started February 1st.
Kjersti Marie Blytt is employed as researcher on the project «Lysbehandling til sykepleier som jobber natt» (Light therapy for nurses who work night shifts). Welcome to IGS!
January 2018
We congratulate Catherine Schwinger on both her Ph.D. and her employment as postdoctoral fellow for three years. The postdoctoral fellow position is connected to our Centre of Excellence; CISMAC. In physiotherapy we congratulate Kjartan Fersum and Jon Joensen on entering into permanent positions as Associate Professors (50 %).
We also have some new faces who we especially want to give a warm welcome. General Practice has a new permanent Associate Professor in Lars Thore Fadnes (picture). Berit Øxnevad- Gundersen is new in the administration, in a position connected to the infrastructure project “The Norwegian Primary Care Research Network”. Another new face in the administration is Linn Jeanette Rundhovde Knudsen. Her position is Connected to the Global Health Priorities research group.
IGS has also employed 35 general practitioners as Assistant Professors. They will give supervised professional training to our students in medicine in their GP offices. We are very grateful for that. Welcome to IGS!