Organizing Committee
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Hedvig Nordeng is a professor at the School of Pharmacy, UiO and holder of the ERC Starting Grant project DrugsInPregnancy (2015 – 2019). She is head of the PharmaTox Strategic Research Initiative, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Oslo uniting researchers in Life Sciences, and head of the Norwegian PhD School of Pharmacy. Nordeng has authored over 120 scientific articles, book chapters and national guidelines on medication use and safety during pregnancy and lactation. Photo: Ola Gamst Sæther |
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Marte Handal is senior physician and senior researcher at the Department of Mental Disorders, Norwegian Institute of Public Health. She is specialist in clinical pharmacology, and her research focuses on use and effects of various medications in vulnerable populations, such as pregnant women and children. Photo: NIPH |
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Angela Lupattelli is a Postdoctoral research fellow at the School of Pharmacy, University of Oslo. Her research is focused towards understanding whether exposure to determined medications in pregnancy can negatively affect maternal and child’s health. She is particularly interested in safety and effectiveness of psychotropic medications, as well as on perinatal psychiatric disorders such depression and eating disorders. Photo: UiO |
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Svetlana Skurtveit is senior researcher at the Department of Mental Disorders and professor at the Centre for Addiction research, University of Oslo. She is particularly interested in use of prescription medication with abuse potential and use of psychotropic medications among children and adolescents. Photo: NIPH |
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Vidar Hjellvik is a statistician and researcher at the Department of Aging and Noncommunicable Diseases at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health. He mainly works with linkage studies including the Norwegian Prescription Database and different other registries and health surveys, on topics like mental health, diabetes, dementia, kidney transplantations, cancer. Photo: NIPH |
