• Nursing Home Medicine
• Palliative Medicine and Palliative Care
• Assessment of Pain in Patients with Dementia
• Impact of Pain on Behavioural Disturbances in Patients with Dementia
• Psychometrics and Algesimetry

CURRENT POSITIONS

• 2019 - Innovasjonsleder, IGS, UiB 
• 2017 - Professor IGS, UoB/Leader of Centre for Elderly and Nursing Home Medicine
• 2012 - 2017 Assoc. prof., IGS, UoB, Leader of SEFAS
• 2016 - Researcher (20%) at Dep. Nursing Home Medicine, Municipality of Bergen

PREVIOUS POSITIONS

• 2011-2015 Researcher, National Centre Age-related Med (20%), Stavanger UniHosp
• 2012 Researcher at NOKLUS, Haraldsplass Diaconian Hospital (50%)
• 2001-2005 Consultant (20%) at Centre for Excellence Palliative Care, Western Norway
• 1997-2011 Medical Director Bergen Red Cross Nursing Home (BRKS)     
• 1996-1997 Consultant Malteser University Hospital, University of Bonn
• 1993-1997 Leader for Home Care Service for Palliative Care (20%), University of Bonn

FELLOWSHIPS

• 2014 Specialist in Elderly and Nursing Home Medicine, UoB (kompetansepåbygging)
• 2012 Specialist in Palliative Medicine, UoB (kompetansepåbygging)
• 2008-2011 Postdoctor fellow “Impact Pain in Dementia”; Research Council Norway (RCN) Grant
• 1995 Specialist in Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, University of Bonn, Germany

EDUCATION

• 2021 Postgraduate Safety, Quality, Informatics and Leadership (SQIL) Program, Harvard University, Boston, USA
• 2014 Medical Specialization in Nursing Home Medicine, UIB
• 2012 Medical Specialization in Palliative Medicine, UIB
• 2008 PhD thesis, IGS, Faculty of Medicine Dentistry, UoB, Health Rehabilitation Grant
• 1993 Dissertation/Doctoral thesis, Faculty of Medicine, University of Bonn, Germany
• 1988 Medical doctor (MD), Faculty of Medicine, University of Bonn, Germany

FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS

2022 - National Dementia Award by His Majesty King Harald of Norway

2016 - “Epidemiology of Death at Home”, Kjellstadli C, et al., Poster award, IGS, UiB

2012 - Faculty of Medicine, UIB, Annual Award “Best Research Lecturer”,

2012 - Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, IGS, UiB, Annual Award “Teacher of the year”

2010 - Stiftelsen DAM: Research Award PhD-project: Pain Assessment in Dementia

2010 - Norwegian Red Cross Award Protection Human Dignity: End-of-life Care in Dementia

2009 - Norwegian Pain Society Research Award. Husebo et al. “Who suffers most?”

2009 - Eur. Assoc. Palliative Care (EAPC) 1^st place award: Pain Behavior People with Dementia

2008-2011 - Postdoctoral fellowship “Impact Pain in Dementia”; Research Council Norway (RCN)

2008 - Norwegian Red Cross: Torstein Dale Award for Palliative Care for Older Adults

2002 - Norwegian Ministry of Health and Care “The Helper Award” for establishing the first palliative care ward in a Norwegian nursing home

Teaching activities

Lectures (bachelor and master) in English, German, and Norwegian about Dementia, Pain in Dementia, Innovation and Technologies for Older Adults, Symptom Management at the End of Life, Systematic Medication Review, Advance Care Planning, Behavioral Disturbances in People with Dementia, Method Developments and Psychometric Properties, Health and Care Systems; Lectures for doctoral studies – at the Faculty of Medicine, UiB, and medical students’ bedside training in nursing homes.

Institutional responsibilities

2019 - Head of Innovation at IGS Department, Faculty of Medicine, UiB

2018-2022 - Head of Section for Elderly Medicine, Social Pharmacy, and Interprofessional Workplace Learning (FEST), IGS Department, Faculty of Medicine, UiB

2016 - Head of SEFAS Research Group, IGS Department, Faculty of Medicine, UiB

2012 - Head of Centre for Elderly and Nursing Home Medicine (SEFAS), UiB

PhD - thesis Husebo BS. Assessment of Pain in Patients with Dementia. Dissertation for the degree of doctor philosophiae. University of Bergen, 2008. ISBN 978-82-308-0601-2. http://hdl.handle.net/1956/3159 

Dissertation, Dr. med. Sandgathe, B. Die Beziehung zwischen den bekannten Anomalien des Chromosoms 4 und Auftreten neurologischer Symptome unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Epilepsie. Grad eines Doktors der Medizin durch Dissertation. Rheinische Friederich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, 1993.

Publications by year:

PREVIOUS RESEARCH PROJECTS (selected)

2017-2020        CombHI; EU-application network, Research Council of Norway (RCN) (0.2 mil. €)

2020                  RCN- Equivalent for private research funding by GC Rieber Foundation (0.4 mil. €)

2015-2019        Nat. Univ. Res. Network Elderly Nursing Home Medicine; National Budget (0.3 mil. €)

2015-2019        ICI HomeTime Trial; Dignity Centre, Womens’ Health, Rieber Foundation (0.8 mil. €)

2016-2020        «May I Die at Home?»; Stiftelsen DAM (0.4 mil. €)

2015-2018        SLEEP.PAIN.DEM RCT Trial; Health Region West (0.5 mil. €)

2013-2017        COSMOS RCT Trial; RCN (1.6 mil. €)

2013-2017        DEP.PAIN.DEM RCT Trial; RCN (0.6 mil. €)

2011-2015        WP2-leader EU-COST Action TD1005 “Pain Patients with Dementia” (4 mil. €)

2008-2011        PAIN.BPSD RCT Trial; RCN (0.6 mil. €)

MAJOR COLLABORATIONS (selected, ongoing)

2018-               Team of the Lancet Commission on the Value of Death, London, UK

2021-               Prof Jeff Kaye, Assisted living technologies, Oregon Univ., US

2019-               Prof Monica Patrascu, Complex systems modelling, Univ. Politehnica of Bucharest, RO

2018-               Prof Ipsit Vahia, Digital phenotyping in dementia, Harvard Univ., McLean, Boston, US

2017-               Profs Ruyta Kawashima and Rui Nouchi, Mental activities, Tohoku University, Japan

2016-               Prof Heather Allore, Biostatistics, Yale University, US

2011-               Prof Wilco P. Achterberg, Pain in dementia, Univ. of Leiden, NL

2008-               Prof Clive Ballard, Geriatric psychology, Medical School, Univ. of Exeter, UK

2007-               Prof Dag Aarsland, Intervention trials in dementia, King’s College, London, UK