Research Support

Research Leadership and Management

Head of Division Research: Prof. Anne Cathrine (Annetine) Staff, a.c.staff@medisin.uio.no.

The responsibility of the Head of Division Research is to – on delegated authority from the Head of Division - manage, organize, coordinate and promote good and sound research in the division, and to encourage interaction between research groups. The Head of Research is also the Chair of the Research Committee.

The Department of Research and Innovation

The Department of Research and Innovation (R&I) is led by Professor Ingvil Krarup Sørbye isorbye@ous-hf.no, and supported by the Research Coordinator Ana Lobato-Pascual analob@ous-hf.no.

The R&I department functions as a support department for the Division’s departments, with main headquarters at Ullevål Hospital. This includes advising researchers within and outside of the organisation, research counselling for the administrative managers, research education, quality assurance of clinical studies and internal procedures, staff and support functions for the research group (human resources, economy, and administration), web editing for The Research Handbook (Oslo University Hospital), as well as maintaining web pages for research activities.

The R&I department manages the Division’s Clinical Trials Unit. The Unit carries out diverse clinical studies, from academic to industry sponsored. This is an important resource for both the Division of Obstetrics and Gynaecology departments and research groups. The Unit comprises a research coordinator, study nurses, and study coordinators who closely collaborate with Principal Investigators, Sponsor, Clinical Research Organisations and Inven2. The unit manages the clinical studies from before execution to completion and archiving.

The R&I department organises twice yearly The Women’s Clinic Research Seminar (one of them in collaboration with the University of Oslo and the Division of Paediatric and Adolescence Medicine). The research seminars are directed towards the distribution and consolidation of practices in research and generating research knowledge. In these seminars, new permanent academic employees are introduced and give lectures, short presentations of PhDs after passed dissertations are promoted, and new large research studies from the Division’s departments are presented, among other activities.
You can see here the programs for previous seminars.