Kristin Palmsten
HealthPartners Institute, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Kristin Palmsten, ScD, is a Research Investigator at HealthPartners Institute. She earned her doctorate in Epidemiology from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Dr. Palmsten’s research focuses primarily on evaluating the safety of medication use during pregnancy. She recieved a Career Development Award from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development to evaluate the impact of oral corticosteroid use during pregnancy on preterm birth risk. She was awarded the 2013 Abraham Lilienfeld Student Prize from the Society for Epidemiologic Research and the 2015-2016 University of California San Diego Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Scholar Award.
Jon Michael Gran
University of Oslo, Norway
Jon Michael Gran is an Associate Professor at Oslo Centre for Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Department of Biostatistics, University of Oslo, working on causal inference and survival analysis.
Björn Wettermark
Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Björn Wettermark, M.Sc.Pharm, PhD works at the regional health board in Stockholm, where he supports decision makers with various analyses on quality of care. He is currently leading a project with the aim to implement a new national system for guidelines development and quality improvement. Björn is also associate professor in pharmacoepidemiology at Karolinska Institutet with research focusing on drug utilization topics such as prescribing quality indicators, international comparisons of drug utilization, evaluation of prescribing doctors´ adherence to guidelines and intervention studies to promote rational use of drugs. He was the previous chair of the European Drug Utilization Research group.
Vera Ehrenstein
Aarhus University, Denmark
Vera Ehrenstein is a professor at Aarhus University, currently coordinating several international postauthorisation studies to assess benefits and risks of medicines. As a participant of the European Network of Centers for Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacovigilance (ENCePP) under the aegis of the European Medicines Agency, she contributes to the development of European methodological standards in pharmacoepidemiology. She represents academia in the ENCePP Steering Group and in the Board of Directors of the International Society of Pharmacoepidemiology. Vera teaches graduate courses, supervises junior researchers and PhD students, and has more than 100 peer-reviewed publications.
Morten Andersen
Department of Drug Design and Pharmacology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Morten Andersen is professor and head of the Pharmacovigilance Research Group at the Department of Drug Design and Pharmacology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Harald Chr. Langaas
Regional Medicines Information and Pharmacovigilance Centre (RELIS), Trondheim, Norway
Harald Chr. Langaas, MPharm, MPH, is head of the Regional Medicines Information and Pharmacovigilance Centre (RELIS) in Trondheim. His earlier experience includes work in hospital pharmacy, and as a manager for three primary care pharmacies. He is now also director of the Norwegian Academic Detailing Program in primary care. This program has completed two campaigns, on NSAIDs and antibiotics, and is starting their third campaign on diabetes type 2 in the autumn of 2018. Harald is working on a PhD based on evaluation of those programs.
Gard Thomassen
University of Oslo, Norway
Gard Thomassen holds a PhD in Bioinformatics, and participated in the first exome and transcriptome sequencing of tumor/normal samples in Norway in 2010. In 2012 Thomassen became project leader for building a system for storage, analysis and collection of sensitive data (TSD) at the University of Oslo Centre for IT (USIT). TSD is now a national eInfrastructure for research on sensitive data. TSD also delivers IT infrastructure for clinical deep sequencing at the Oslo University Hospital. Today, Thomassen is the Head of the Division for Research Computing and Assistant Director at the USIT at the University of Oslo, Norway.
Antti Pursula
NelC and CSC - IT Center for Science, Finland
Antti Pursula works at the Finnish national e-infrastructure service center CSC as Project Director in the Research Infrastructures unit. In this role he supports research communities in solving their big data management challenges, including sensitive data management, especially in the area of health biomedical research. In addition, Antti is director of the Nordic sensitive data collaboration NeIC Tryggve that is developing and facilitating access to secure IT services for sensitive data in biomedicine on Nordic scale.
His earlier work experience at CSC includes development and management of scientific software, working as Development manager and as Director for Application services unit, as well as several international project management roles over the years. He is also part of the ELIXIR Finland team.
Claus-Göran Hjelm
C-G Hjelm has worked as a IT Director at University of Örebro, Consultant Director at Sema Group, IT -Manager and Register Director at Statistics Sweden. The last year is dedicated to Research infrastructures on European and Nordic level. He has been a lecturer and consultant in more than 20 countries world-wide and has written articles and books about Register based statistics and metadata. He is also affiliated board member of international research groups and associations.
Ivan Thaulow
Research Services Division, Statistics Denmark
Ivan Thaulow has a Master in Political Science from Copenhagen University. For the last 10 years he has been in charge of Research Services at Statistics Denmark. Here he has contributed to build up and consolidate one of the most comprehensive Research Service systems in the world.