
Christine Rootwelt-Norberg
- Postdoc; MD, PhD
Rootwelt-Norberg’s main research focus is on genetic cardiology. She received her PhD in 2022, after defending the thesis “Disease manifestations and predictors of arrhythmia in arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy”. Her supervisors were professor Kristina H. Haugaa and Øyvind H. Lie.
Rootwelt-Norberg has a particular interest in risk stratification of life-threatening arrhythmias in patients with genetic cardiac diseases, and has worked mostly on research projects including arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy, lamin A/C cardiomyopathy and arrhythmic mitral valve syndrome.
She received the Prof. J. Roelandt’s Young Investigator Award for best original work in clinical science at the 2021 EuroEcho-Imaging Congress in Berlin. The award was given for the work “Disease progression rate is a strong predictor of ventricular arrhythmias in patients with cardiac laminopathies”.