Program Committee
Program committee
Bjørnar Alexander Andreassen
Helsedirektoratet
Bjørnar Alexander Andreassen is the program manager for the National Welfare Technology Programme, and works in the Directorate of Health. He has worked in the specialist health service, the health and care service in the municipality and the private non-profit sector for 15 years, before working in the Directorate of Health for the last 10 years. Education: Physiotherapist, Bachelor of Management, Master in Health Administration.
Elisabeth Jakobsen
CCO, Kreftregisteret
Elisabeth Jakobsen is the communications officer at the Norwegian Cancer Registry. She has also been communications manager at the National Center for e-health - back when it was still called telemedicine. Jakobsen has a background as a journalist, and worked for many years in NRK's newsroom at Marienlyst in Oslo, but she is a computer scientist by training, with a Master's in health informatics.
Ellen Normannseth
Kommunesektorens organisasjon, KS
Ellen Normannseth is a special advisor in KS, in the FID eHealth department. She is a nurse and has a master's degree in health informatics. She has experience from the specialist health service, the municipal sector and ePJ provider. She is concerned with how technological opportunities are best utilized so that the municipalities can provide citizens with good quality health services, while at the same time they are equipped to meet tomorrow's challenges.
Eirik Nikolai Arnesen
Legeforeningen
Eirik Nikolai Arnesen is a doctor and special adviser to the Norwegian Medical Association. He has worked with e-health since 2007, in development, implementation and strategy.
Jo Cranner
Senior adviser at Norsk Sykepleierforbund
Monika Knudsen Gullslett
professor, NSE og USN
Monika Knudsen is a professor at the Personal e-Health department at the National Center for e-Health Research. She is also employed as a professor at the Center for Health and Technology at the University of Southeast Norway.
Nard Schreurs
CEO, EHiN
Nard Schreurs is CEO of EHiN and was previously director of eHealth in IKT Norway. He has a background as a journalist in Computerworld, where he was editor of the supplement "IT-Helse". He has worked with e-health since 2007, and has both started and built the Healthworld conference and the EHiN conference. EHiN (E-Health in Norway) moved in 2016 to Oslo Spektrum, but since 2021 has been held at X Meeting Point in Hellerudsletta. In 2022, the conference had 1,600 participants.
Anita Moe Larsen
CCO, Sunnaas hospital
Anita is educated in marketing communications and finance, and has worked in industries such as technology, telecommunications and pharma/dietary supplements. Her strengths are reputation building, PR and communication. She has been communications manager at Norway Health Tech since 2015, but in August 2022 transferred to operational management at Nordic Neurotech, which developed new tools to meet challenges in mental health. In June 2023, she started as communications manager at Sunnaas hospital. Anita has worked extensively with health policy issues, regulatory issues and ordinances, management and talent development. She is often used as moderator and speaker.
Ida Susanna Fattah
CCEO, MedLytic
Ida Susanna Fattah is a trained doctor, and started MedLytic to bring healthcare professionals' insights into the development of services and tools in the healthcare system; "on demand" and research-based. She is a driving force to increase the speed of innovation in the health sector, and has a passion for health technology, public health and project management. In addition to being the general manager of MedLytic, she is assistant municipal doctor, university lecturer in social medicine.
Stein Olav Skrøvseth
Norwegian Centre for e-health Research
Stein Olav Skrøvseth is the center manager at the National Center for e-Health Research. In 2008, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Sydney in Australia, before being employed as a researcher at the National Center for Interaction and Telemedicine in Tromsø in 2009. There he led several research projects in statistics, medical image processing, machine learning, pattern recognition and data analysis.