Who we are at the Hand, Ankle and Minor surgery research group
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We are:
Leader:
Christina Brudvik, Professor, UiB, Specialist in general practice
Management group:
Leiv Hove, Emeritus professor, Specialist in orthopedics and plastic surgery
Knut Steen, Senior doctor, Dr Med, Specialist in general practice
Torbjørn Hiis Bergh, Associate Professor, PhD, UiB, Senior doctor at Bergen Minor Injury Department, Specialist in general practice
Research group members:
SV Bernardshaw, Specialist in general practice and gastrosurgery
Yngvar Krukhaug, Associate Professor, PhD, UiB, Orthopaedic surgeon at HUH
Eivind Strandenes, Plastic surgeon at HUH
Rakel Gudmundsdottir, Orthopaedic surgeon at HUH
Eivind Damsgaard, University Lecturer, Senior doctor at Bergen Casualty and Emergency Department
Lars Atle Soldal, Senior doctor at Bergen Casualty and Emergency Department
Svein-Denis Moutte, Senior doctor at Bergen Minor Injury Department, Specialist at the Accident and Emergency Department
Njål Kleven, Senior doctor at Bergen Minor Injury Department
Ørjan Sørnes, Junior doctor at Bergen Casualty and Emergency Department
Trine Ludvigsen, Senior doctor at Voss Hospital
Humaira Sæbø, Orthopedic specialist physiotherapist, PhD, at Bergen Minor Injury Department
Tonje Mannigel, Junior doctor at Bergen Minor Injury Department
Sandra Johansson Vaage, Junior doctor at Bergen Minor Injury Department
Lisa Grytaas, Junior doctor, Department of Orthopedic at HUS.
Administrative tasks
- Expert committee for employment in a leadership position at Med fak, UiB 2021 (Brudvik)
- Committee leader (Brudvik) in 3 PhD disputations, in 2009 (Krukhaug) and 2014 (Kadar, Visnes)
- Preparation of national guidelines for the treatment of distal radius fractures (Krukhaug)
- Preparation of national guidelines in pain treatment for children (commissioned by the Health Directorate to the National Competence Network for medicinal products for children) (Brudvik)
- Preparation of national guidelines for the handling of suspected child abuse in the primary health care services (commissioned by the Health Directorate to the Norwegian Competence Centre for Violence and Traumatic Stress) (Brudvik)
Seminars and conventions
- Organizer of 8 seminars in Bergen in the period 17.09.09 - 03.04.13 about carpus and wrist injuries in Bergen (Brudvik)
- Co-organizer of the SSSH in Tromsø (Scandinavian society for surgery of the hand) 2010 (Krukhaug)
- Lecture at a seminar on carpus and wrist injuries research at Derby, UK 27.03.11 (Hiis Bergh, Brudvik)
- 2 lectures at the SSSH in Copenhagen (Hiis Bergh, Krukhaug)
- 2 lectures at the BSSH (British society for surgery of the hand) 01.04.11 (Brudvik, Hiis Bergh)
- Lectures at the FESSH (Federation of European Societies of surgery of the hand) June 2011. Four lectures (Hove, Krukhaug, Hiis Bergh, Brudvik)
- Organizer of a seminar on acute pain treatment in children, Oslo June 2013 and speaker with one lecture (Brudvik, Moutte)
- Lecture at the International Safe Community Congress in Harstad June 2014 (Brudvik)
- Organizer of the SSSH in Bergen, 2014 (Strandenes, Gudmundsdottir, Hiis Bergh, Krukhaug, Aglen). Four lectures (Soldal, Hiis Bergh, Brudvik)
- Organizer of the Nordic Tetra Surgery Meeting 2014 (Gudmundsdottir, Strandenes, Hove, Hanestad)
Academic responsibilities
- 1. Opponent for the PhD dissertation "Evidence basis for injury prevention in Northwestern Russia” Tatiana N. Unguryanu, University of Tromsø, 2021 (Brudvik)
- 2. opponent for the PhD dissertation "Road traffic crashes in Arkhangelsk, Russia in 2005-2010". Kudryavtsev, University of Tromsø, 2013 (Brudvik)
- 2. opponent for the PhD dissertation "Alcohol, psychoactive substances and injuries in the emergency department", 2013 (Steen)