John Munkhagen

John Munkhaugen

Head of Research, cardiologist, Professor; PhD, FESC
Date of birth: 25.02.1983, male gender. Civil status: Married, three children. Nationality: Norwegian
Phone: +47 975 24 194 Email: johmun@vestreviken.no
Home page NORCOR research group: https://norcor.no
Personal home page at UiO: https://www.med.uio.no/imb/english/people/aca/johnmu/index.html

Education

PhD (2008-2010), Faculty of Medicine, Norwegian University of Technology and Science
MD (2002-2008), Faculty of Medicine, Norwegian University of Technology and Science

Work record (selected)

Head of research (2019-), Department of Medicine, Vestre Viken Trust, Drammen Hospital
Professor II (2023-), Institute of Basic Sciences in Medicine, University of Oslo
Cardiologist trainee (2020-2022), Oslo University Hospital Ullevål
Consultant (const.) (2015-2020), Department of Medicine, Vestre Viken Trust, Drammen Hospital
Trainee in internal medicine (2010-2015), Dept. of Behavioural Medicine, University of Oslo
Postdoc and lecture (2012-2018), Dept of Behavioural Medicine, University of Oslo

Awards, committees, memberships

Professional member European Society of Cardiology (ESC), European Association for Preventive -Cardiology (EAPC), Norwegian Society of Cardiology
Several international and national awards, incl. Young Investigator Award (YIA) at the European Society of Cardiology (ESC; 2023).
Selected/elected member of several research committees, incl. Young Ambassador to the European Association of Preventive Cardiology (EAPC) (2020-), Cardiovascular Board of Nasjonalforeningen (2021- ), advisory board and special commitees on behalf of the Norwegian Medicines Agency and the Ministry of Healthcare Services (2022) and the Directorate of Health (several times), co-chair for the Task Force group in preventive cardiology « NCS AG Preventiv”

Other

In total, received ~4 mill Euro in funding to the NORCOR research group since 2015 incl. 6 postdoc and 7 PhD fellowships from HSØ, Norwegian Research Council, National Health Association, Dam Foundation
Teaching, examination, supervision and mentoring activities since 2014 incl. 5 PhD candidates and 2 post-docs .
International Reviewer for several journals including: Journals of the American College of Cardiology (JACC), Cell Metablism, Eur J Preventive Cardiololgy, Eur J Respiratory Medicine, Journal of Internal Medicine, American Heart Journal, and Heart
Broad research communication at meetings and conferences, and public outreach as elaborated on norcor.no .
Co-chair for the bi-national trial: “BETAMI-DANBLOCK trial”. Received ~>2mill Euro in funding.
Participating as partner on a EU Horizon 2024 application

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