Andersen is a senior researcher at the Clinic for Surgery and specialized medicine, and Transplantation at Oslo University Hospital and holds a part-time professorship at the Department of Interdisciplinary Health Sciences at the University of Oslo. She has extensive experience in clinical research within the field of transplantation, and has particularly developed and led research and professional development among the nursing staff, many of whom have completed master's and PhD degrees under her leadership.

Andersen’s research, spanning more than 20 years, has largely focused on patient-reported outcome measures (PROM). She currently leads the Research Group for Patient-Reported Outcomes and Health Economics at Oslo University Hospital. She is also a collaborator in PROMiNET, which is a PROM research infrastructure in the South-Eastern Norway Regional Health Authority.

Over many years, Andersen has specifically worked with patient education and communication related to the field of transplantation. In recent years, she has focused this research on health literacy and knowledge translation.

Aronsen graduated as a medical doctor in 2003 and has been a specialist in internal medicine and nephrology since 2012. He currently works in the kidney section at Drammen Hospital and has many years of experience with kidney patients and transplant recipients.

In the fall of 2023, Aronsen began his PhD work. His research is a randomized study evaluating the effect of a 12-week home training program for patients with reduced functional levels at the time of kidney transplantation (HOMETRAIN).

Dahl has been working as a nurse in the transplant surgery ward at Rikshospitalet since 2008 and has served as a development nurse in the department for several years. She currently works 50% as a nurse and 50% as a post-doctoral researcher and holds a master's degree in nursing science (2015) and a PhD (2020) from the UiO, and she has previously studied psychology.

Methodologically, Dahl has experience with quantitative methods related to PROM and various qualitative methods (individual interviews, focus group interviews, and participant observation). Through her PhD and post-doctoral work, she has primarily focused on health literacy among kidney transplant recipients. In her post-doctoral project, she aims to develop an intervention to increase health literacy in kidney transplant recipients with immigrant backgrounds and to enhance health literacy sensitivity among nurses.

Gulseth has worked as a nurse in the pediatric surgical department at Rikshospitalet since 2008. The section assesses and treats children and adolescents (0-18 years) within the specialties of pediatric surgery (specialized pediatric surgery, urology, and gastrointestinal surgery) and transplant surgery.

Gulseth holds a master's degree in social anthropology from the UiO and began his doctoral work at the Institute of Clinical Medicine at UiO in 2019. Methodologically, he has experience with qualitative methods, including in-depth interviews and participant observation in his master's work, and quantitative methods related to PROM in his doctoral work.

Ytreland Larsen received a kidney transplant from his father in November 2013. After the transplantation, he has been active on the board of LNT Oslo and Akershus, served as a peer supporter in the dialysis unit at Ullevål, and participated on the board of the Transplanted Sports Association. Ivar also participated in the World Transplant Games in Argentina in 2015. Furthermore, he has contributed to patient training courses organized by center for Learning and Mastery at OUS, sharing his experiences after the transplantation and strategies for everyday coping.

"I am focused on giving back to show gratitude for everything I received during the time I was ill and at the same time being a support for others in familiar situations. I think it is true for me, as for many others, that kidney disease and renal failure are hidden illnesses that can be demystified through information for both patients and their families."

Lønning has worked as a nurse at the Clinic for Surgery and specialized medicine since 1988 and has a vast network in the Norwegian nephrology community. She earned her master's degree in value-based management from Diakonhjemmet University College in 2008 and completed her PhD at the UiO in 2018. She has been working as the coordinating nurse for living donors and kidney transplantation since 2010. Lønning is also daily responsible for the national quality registry "Norwegian Kidney Registry."

Meyer has worked as a nurse at the Clinic for Surgery and specialiced medicine and the Department of Transplantation Medicine since 1985. She has pursued further education in intensive care nursing, earned a master's degree in nursing science from UiO in 2009, and completed her PhD at the UiO in 2017. She has worked as a transplant coordinator at OUS, Rikshospitalet, since 1997.

Sarpebakken is employed as the editor and communications manager at the Norwegian Association for Kidney Patients and Transplanted. He primarily works with the membership magazine, website, social media, and podcast. He is keenly interested in the latest developments in research and uses the association's channels for research dissemination. Sarpebakken has a master's degree in media studies from UiO.

Vidnes has extensive experience working in the transplant surgery ward, Department of Transplantation Medicine, at Rikshospitalet. She came from Karolinska Hospital in Stockholm in 2003 and showed an early interest in professional development and research.

Her research career began with follow-up of individuals with colon cancer who were offered liver transplantation, resulting in a master's degree using the method of in-depth interviews.

Since 2012, Vidnes has been a clinical development nurse, and in the fall of 2019, she began her doctoral work. She has conducted a randomized controlled study to investigate whether kidney transplant recipients who are offered a health communication intervention based on motivational interviewing in addition to standard education can develop their health literacy.

Wahl is a professor at the Department of Interdisciplinary Health Sciences at UiO and a researcher at the Department of Transplantation at OUS (20%). She has more than 20 years of experience in research on patient-reported outcome measures (PROM) and in supervising PhD and master's students.

Wahl’s research is related to various chronic disease groups (kidney disease, psoriasis, COPD, diabetes, heart failure, cystic fibrosis, and cancer). Over the past five years, she has worked to establish health literacy research in Norway, including the translation and validation of international tools and instruments into Norwegian, in close collaboration with Professor Richard Osborne in Australia.