associate professor
Department of Clinical and Molecular Medicine, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
I am a medical doctor and works as anatomist in Trondheim, Norway at the Norwegian University for Science and Technology(NTNU). I worked as a general surgeon from 2007 until 2012. I am a specialist in Family Medicine . Since 2018 I have a position as an associate professor in Anatomy. During the COVID-19 pandemic I chose an academic career path and since the start of 2021 I have worked full-time at the anatomy department. Now, I am the main responsible for anatomy teaching of medical student at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at NTNU. Furthermore, I am responsible for the donor registry in the middle part of Norway and the anatomical collection of NTNU. I have taught anatomy for over 15 years, first as a near-peer teacher during my medical studies in Amsterdam and later at NTNU since 2012.
My mission is to transform anatomy education at NTNU and collaborate with the best in the world so that anatomy teaching in general reaches a higher level for a broader public.
Since 2019 I have been concentrating on improving anatomy teaching at NTNU. Initiating a transformation in which the tradition of dissection lives on but then combined with other modalities such as 3-D modelling and VR/AR. To achieve this transformation, I have concentrated on taking leadership courses on organizations development and coaching as a leadership tool. Our anatomy group is now defining itself and developing its own identity and is robust. This resulted in our first prize in 2022 as `best educator for our anatomical collection`. Our anatomical collection at NTNU uses preservation techniques of a high international level. The specimens we have are remains of donors from our own registry, which are plastinated by us and now part of our anatomical collection.
