THE RESEARCH TEAM

Marte Bjørk, MD PhD

Associate professor at the Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Bergen, and consultant neurologist at the Department of Neurology, Haukeland University Hospital. Principal investigator for SCAN-AED. Responsible for clinical guidelines for treatment of epilepsy in pregnancy in Norway. She...

Nils Erik Gilhus, MD PhD

Professor in neurology at University of Bergen and senior consultant at Department of Neurology, Haukeland University Hospital. Principle investigator (co) for SCAN-AED. He has been active in EAN, EFNS, UEMS-EBN, ISNI, Norwegian Brain Council, Norwegian Medical Association, NevroNor, Nansen...

Jakob Christensen, MD PhD

Jakob Christensen is an MD, with a PhD and Dr. Med. Sci. from Aarhus University. He is a certified specialist in Clinical Pharmacology and Neurology. He works as consultant neurologist at the Department of Neurology, Aarhus University Hospital. He is associate professor at Aarhus University Hospital...

Mika Gissler

Research Professor with faculty appointments at the National Institute for Health and Welfare, the University of Turku, Finland, the University of Oulu, Finland, and Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden. Main research focus has been in utilization of routinely collected health and welfare registers.

Maarit Leinonen, MD PhD

Project Manager in the “Drugs and Pregnancy” project, which is a joint project of the National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL), the Finnish Medicines Agency (FIMEA) and the Social Insurance Institution of Finland (Kela) launched in 2008. Project evaluates drug use during pregnancy and drug...

Torbjörn Tomson, MD PhD

Senior Professor of Neurology and Epileptology, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet. Senior consultant Dept of Neurology, Karolinska University Hospital....

Silje Alvestad, MD PhD

Post-doctoral fellow in the SCAN-AED group at the University of Bergen, and consultant neurologist at the National Center for Epilepsy, Oslo, Norway. National coordinator of the International Registry of Antiepileptic Drugs and Pregnancy (EURAP) in Norway.

Jannicke Igland, PhD

Statistician in the SCAN-AED project, associate professor and head of the Core facility for Biostatistics and Data analysis at Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care at the University of Bergen. Long experience with management and statistical analysis of registry data.

Julie Werenberg Dreier, MSPH PhD

Senior Researcher in the SCAN-AED group and epidemiologist with expertise in register-based studies within developmental epidemiology, including seizure disorders (epilepsy and febrile seizures), psychiatric disorders (e.g. autism and ADHD) and general cognitive development in children.

Yuelian Sun, MD PhD

Associate professor at Department of Neurology, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University.

Håkon Magne Vegrim, MD

PhD Candidate for SCAN-AED.

Betina Trabjerg

Researcher at the National Centre for Register-based Research, Aarhus University, Denmark. Working with management and statistical analysis of Danish registry data. Involved in different projects using register-based data to study the causes and consequences of psychiatric disorders including...

Neda Razaz, PhD

Assistant Professor at the Clinical Epidemiology Division, Karolinska Institutet.