MD, Phd
Consultant
Women and Children?s Division, Dept of Obstetrics and Dept. of Gynecology
Professor, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo

Biography
Dr. Staff received a medical doctor (MD) degree at the University of Oslo in 1987, and became in 1996 a certified Norwegian specialist in Gynecology and Obstetrics. Her dissertation for the PhD thesis in medicine at the Medical Faculty, University of Oslo was in 2000, with the title "Preeclampsia and uteroplacental tissues: lipids, oxidative stress, and trophoblast invasion". She is currently combining a clinical consultant position with a Research Advisor position at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Oslo University Hospital, Ulleval. In addition, she is Professor at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo (UiO). She was co-chair and acting chair of the Regional Committee for Medical Research Ethics, Southern Norway, from 2001-2006. She is co-editor and author of a Norwegian national research handbook: Forskningshåndboken, fra idé til publikasjon, also available electronically in English version from 2008 (www.ulleval.no/forskningshandboken). She was Director of Research and Development, Regional Health Authorities of South-Eastern Norway in 2009-10.

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Research interests
· Molecular understanding of pregnancy complications (including preeclampsia and diabetes)
· Molecular understanding of ovarian cancer development (including borderline tumors) as well as other gynaecological malignancies
· Pregnancy complications (preeclampsia and diabetes) and future health of mother and offspring
· Urogynecology, improving preoperative and per operative assessments predicting postoperative urinary incontinence
· Biobank-based/ translational research, combining clinical and basic research

Publications
Listed under Staff A in PubMed.

Appointments
· Member of the editorial board of The Journal of the Norwegian Medical Association (Tidsskriftet for Den Norske Lægeforening).
· Member of Clinic's research advisory group, Oslo University Hospital
· Member of IFPA (International Federation of Placenta Associations) executive committee (Staff is international conference organizer in Norway in September 2011)

Research supervisor of PhD students
Guro M. Johnsen
Meryam Sugulle
Katariina Laine
Susanne Weedon-Fekjær
Anne Stine Kvehaugen
Rune Svenningsen
Aase Pay
Annika Bock (MD/PhD-student)
Kathrine Fodstad (MD/PhD-student)

Kristin Brække (PhD dissertation passed in September 2007)
Nina Kittelsen Harsem (PhD dissertation passed in February 2008) 
Elin Ødegård (PhD dissertation passed in June 2008) 

Phd dissertations

Scientific collaborators include:

Norway:
Ben Davidson, MD, PhD, Pathology Clinic, Rikshospitalet-Radiumhospitalet Medical
Centre, Oslo
Øyvind Melien, MD, PhD, Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Rikshospitalet
Kari Anne Tobin, MSc, PhD, the Lipid Clinic, Medical Department, Rikshospitalet
Borghild Roald, MD, PhD, Dept of Anatomy and Pathology, UUH
Asim Duttaroy, MSc, PhD, Department of Nutrition, University of Oslo
Hilde Nebb, MSc, PhD, Department of Nutrition, University of Oslo
Mette Ree Holthe, MSc, PhD, FUS-laboratory, UUH

International:
Ralf Dechend, MD, PhD, Franz-Volhard-Clinic, Max Delbruck Center for Molecular Medicine, Department of Cardiology, Berlin
Ananth Karumanchi, MD, PhD, Departments of Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston
Asif Ahmed, MSc, PhD, Dept. of Reproductive & Vascular Biology, Centre for Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
Christopher Redman, MD, PhD, Ian Sargent, MSc, PhD, Elizabeth Linton, BSc, PhD: Nuffield Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford
Rebecca Troisi, MA, ScD, National Cancer Institute, Darthmouth Medical School, Hanover, USA