Who are ROSC

Senior researchers

The group has an informal leadership presently under the supervision of professor Hans Flaatten and consists of several researchers and other health personnel:

• Anne Berit Guttormsen, Professor/ICU consultant, MD, PhD
  Norwegian contact with SCCTG (see below), Acute Medicine, Nutrition and anaphylaxis studies (abgu@helse-bergen.no)
  
  
• Reidar Kvåle, Director of NIR, ICU consultant MD PhD
  Daily responsibility for NIR (rkva@helse-bergen.no)
  
  
• Eirik Søfteland Chief Anaesthesia consultant, MD PhD
  Responsible for the quality and safety research program within anaesthesia and surgery (eirik.softeland@helse-bergen.no)
  
  
• Kjell Øvrebø, Consultant Surgeon Gastrointestinal Surgery, MD PhD
  Responsible for research into outcome after severe pancreatitis
  
  
• Arvid Haugen, Head of Research & Development, Dep. Of Anaesthesia and Intensive care. RN, PhD
  Working with quality and safety research within anaesthesia and surgery. (arvid.steinar.haugen@helse-bergen.no)
  
  
• Hans Flaatten, Professor Intensive Care, ICU consultant
  Responsible for outcome research after intensive care and quality and safety in critical illness (hans.flaatten@K1.uib.no)

Research fellows:

The group at present have research fellows in the following areas:

• Anette Storesund, RN. Research fellow (Helse Vest). Research on effects of checklists in surgical care. PhD Candidate, Department of Clinical Medicine. anette.storesund@helse-bergen.no
  
  
• Ib Jammer, MD. Research fellow (UiB). Research on outcome after major surgery.
  
  
• Finn Andersen, MD. Research fellow at Ålesund Hospital (Helse Midt) on outcome after intensive care in the elderly

Internal meetings

The whole research group has a one-day meeting once in autumn and once in spring, starting 2014.

We also have weekly/monthly meetings in the different research sub-groups.

A 2-day national conference of the Norwegian Intensive Care Registry is organized by the group each autumn.