Orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3166-5254

Present and past positions

Professor of Pediatrics, Director of Department of Pediatric Research, University of Oslo, University Hospital 1991-2018.

Senior Consultant of Neonatology, Oslo University Hospital, 1986 - 2019.

Head of the Norwegian Newborn Screening program 1991-2010

Head of Department of Women and Child Health, Oslo University Hospital 2013-2016

Adjunct Professor at Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago/Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine 2018 –

Editor-in-Chief (together with CP Speer) of Neonatology 2023-

Visiting Associate Research Pediatrician at Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California San Francisco, 1986

Post doc (NIH grant) Department of Neonatology, University of California San Diego 1980-81

PhD Fellow University of Uppsala University 1973-74 and University of Oslo 1974-76

Publications

Pubmed: 582 publications, of these 39 reviews, >16000 citations.

H index: (Web of Knowledge) 64, (Google scholar) 86. RG score 50 (> 97,5 percentile, 30,000 citations)

Supervisor of 50 students to finished PhD

Given more than 600 invited lectures at international congresses and universities.

Positions of Trust

President (and founder) of Norwegian Society for Perinatal Medicine 1987-9

Council Member European Society of Paediatric Research 1987-90

Secretary Working Group on Neonatology, European Soc Paed Res 1990-3

Council Member IPF (International Pediatric Foundation) 2000-2003

Council member European Association of Perinatal Medicine (EAPM) 1996-2006

President elect, President, and past President of EAPM 2000-2,2002-4, 2004-6

Honorary Doctor University of Athens 2014

Honorary Professor Moscow State University (Pirogov) 2016

Chairman of the Scientific committee of UENPS 2020 -

Editorial board member (now and previously)

Pediatric Research, Acta Paediatrica, Neonatology, J Pediatrics, J Perinatology, J Perinat Med, Pediatric Medicine, J Maternal Fetal and Newborn Medicine

Honorary member 

The Hungarian Pediatric Society

The Finnish Perinatal Association

The European Association of Perinatal Medicine

The German Perinatal Society

The Norwegian Society for Perinatal Medicine

American Pediatric Society

The Hellenic Society of Perinatal Medicine

Asociation Colombiana de Neonatologia

Awards (selected out of 18) 

The Laerdal Award in Acute Medicine, 1995

Fellow Royal College of Physician, Edinburgh,1996

The Arvo Ylppä Award (Helsinki), 1997

The Virginia Apgar Award (World Association of Perinatal Medicine), 2001

The Maternité Prize (European Association of Perinatal Medicine) 2008

The Martha Philipson Award for Excellence in Pediatrics (Stockholm), 2010

The Landmark Award (AAP, USA), 2011

The Björnson Award (for free speech) (Norway) 2011

The Nordic Medical Award (Stockholm), 2012

The Golden Amnioscope (International Academy of Perinatal Medicine) 2016

The Saling Award (World Association of Perinatal Medicine), 2017

jENS (UENPS) Award in Neonatology 2021

Visiting professor

Harvard Medical School (Neonatology) 2011

University of Colorado (Neonatology)   2023

Books

Author of 5 books

• Fighting for air. My commitment to Newborns. Waterside production, Cardiff, California  2022 (Norwegian (2019), Swedish (2022), Italian (2021),  autobiography  
• When the child is born preterm published  in Norwegian 1991,2008,2017, Swedish 2008, Danish 2009, Spanish, Russian 2012
• Når grenser flyttes, (Norwegian) 2007
• Barnets første leveår/Barnelegen (Norwegian: The Pediatrician)  2008, 2017
• Pandoras eske. Mennesket og Bioteknologien, (Pandoras Box. Man and Biotechnology) (Norwegian) 2022