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Education

  • Doctor (MD), University of Oslo (2001)
  • Specialist in rheumatology (2015)
  • Doctoral degree (PhD) at the Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo (2009)

Position

  • Senior researcher, Clinic for rheumatology, outpatient clinic and research, Diakonhjemmet hospital
  • Senior physician in rheumatology, Clinic for rheumatology, outpatient clinic and research, Diakonhjemmet hospital

Field of interest

  • Rheumatology
  • Arthritic diseases
  • Immunotherapy
  • Anti-rheumatic disease-modifying drugs

Other

  • Head of the National Clinical Network in REMEDY

Email

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Telephone

visiting address

Diakonhjemmet hospital
Forstanderboligen
Reidar Kobros vei 8
0370 Oslo

Postal address

Diakohjemmet hospital
PO Box 23 Vinderen
0319 Oslo

Projects

WP1 - Optimized medical interventions

NORTH STAR

The Nordic study of strategy tests and registries for rheumatic diseases

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WP2 - PPhenotyping for personalized medicine

RIMRA

Rheumatic immune-related side effects in patients treated with immunotherapy

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WP2 - PPhenotyping for personalized medicine

START

Stratification of acute inflammatory arthritis

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Publications

Publications taken from the National Science Archive (NVA):

Obesity is a risk factor for poor response to treatment in early rheumatoid arthritis: a NORD-STAR study

2024

Association of rheumatoid factor, anti-citrullinated protein antibodies and shared epitope with clinical response to initial treatment in patients with early rheumatoid arthritis: data from a randomized controlled trial

2024

Circulating Baseline CXCR3 + Th2 and Th17 Cell Proportions Correlate With Trabecular Bone Loss After 48 Weeks of Biological Treatment in Early Rheumatoid Arthritis

2024

Methotrexate Safety and Efficacy in Combination Therapies in Patients With Early Rheumatoid Arthritis: A Post Hoc Analysis of a Randomized Controlled Trial

2023

Certolizumab pegol, abatacept, tocilizumab or active conventional treatment in early rheumatoid arthritis: 48-week clinical and radiographic results of the investigator-initiated randomized controlled NORD-STAR trial

2023

Sex differences in remission rates over 24 weeks among three different biological treatments compared to conventional therapy in patients with early rheumatoid arthritis (NORD-STAR): a post-hoc analysis of a randomized controlled trial

2022

Blood chemokine levels are markers of disease activity but not predictors of remission in early rheumatoid arthritis

2021

Plasma interferon-alpha is associated with double-positivity for autoantibodies but is not a predictor of remission in early rheumatoid arthritis-a spin-off study of the NORD-STAR randomized clinical trial.

2021

Active conventional treatment and three different biological treatments in early rheumatoid arthritis: Phase IV investigator initiated, randomised, observer blinded clinical trial

2020

Sicca/Sjögren's syndrome triggered by PD-1/PD-L1 checkpoint inhibitors. Data from the International Immunocancer Registry (ICIR)

2019

Head-to-head comparison of aggressive conventional therapy and three biological treatments and comparison of two de-escalation strategies in patients who respond to treatment: Study protocol for a multicenter, randomized, open-label, blinded-assessor, phase 4 study

2017

Is there a role for sulphasalazine in axial spondyloarthritis in the era of TNF inhibition? Data from the NOR-DMARD longitudinal observational study

2014

The role of methotrexate co-medication in TNF-inhibitor treatment in patients with psoriatic arthritis: results from 440 patients included in the NOR-DMARD study

2014

Switching between TNF inhibitors in psoriatic arthritis: data from the NOR-DMARD study

2013

Selecting patients with ankylosing spondylitis for TNF inhibitor therapy: comparison of ASDAS and BASDAI eligibility criteria

2012

Effectiveness and retention rates of methotrexate in psoriatic arthritis in comparison with methotrexate-treated patients with rheumatoid arthritis

2010