CV Gabriel Lende

                               
Gabriel Lende


Address:
Myungsung Christian Medical Center          
P.O.Box 15 478
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia                                    
Phone: ++251 116 29 29 63

E-mail: gabriel_lende@hotmail.com
Marital status: Married
Born: Yirgalem, Ethiopia  September 21 - 1971



    * 2004             Norwegian Specialist approval in Neurosurgery.

    * 2004             Passed the written exam of the European Association of Neurological Surgery (EANS)

    * 1990-1996    MD, University of Bergen, Norway                         

    * 1987-1990    Tryggheim Videregående Skole (High school), Nærbø, Norway.


    * 2004-2005    Consultant, Dept. of Neurosurgery, Haukeland University Hospital. Bergen.

    * 2002-2004    Resident, Dept. of Neurosurgery, Haukeland University Hospital. Bergen.

    * 2001-2002    Resident, Dept. of Neurosurgery, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden, ½ year.

    * 2001             General practitioner with special emphasis on surgery and gynecology/obstetrics, Gidole Hospital, Ethiopia, 3 months.

    * 1998-2001    Resident , Dept. of Neurosurgery, Haukeland University Hospital. Bergen.

    * 1999-2000    Resident, Dept. of Neurology, Rogaland Regional Hospital, Stavanger, Norway.

    * 1998             Military service as medical doctor,  Military Hospital of Troms, Norway.        1997                 General practice, Tingvoll, Norway ½ year.

    * 1996-1997    Internship, Dept. of Surgery and Internal Medicine, Regional Hospital,  Ålesund, Norway 1 year.

 




Languages:     

 Norwegian (1st language), English (Fluent), German (Good), Amharic (Oral)



International Experience:   

I have lived ten years in Ethiopia (71-75, 79-83, 85-87) . These experiences have helped me develop skills to adjust to new cultures and made me appreciate cross-cultural relationships and encounters.

I worked 3 months in a rural hospital of Southern Ethiopia (2001). This even more increased my wish to work in Africa.

I worked 6 months at Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden (2001-02), to improve my neurosurgical skills.

CV Knut Gustav Wester

     

Knut Gustav Wester
Born: Sept. 1 – 1940, Asker, Norway


Clinical experience

    * Internship: Rana sykehus, Lurøy and Træna, Northern Norway, 1965-66.

    * Military service: Officer at Staff, Surgeon General of The Norwegian Army, 1967-68. 

    * Resident, The National Center for Epilepsy, 1975-76.

    * Resident/Chief resident, Dept. of Neurology, The National Hospital, Oslo, 1976-77.

    * Resident/Chief resident, Dept. of Neurosurgery, The   National Hospital, Oslo, 1978-86.

    * Resident, Dept. of Surgery, Vestfold County Hospital, 1983 and 1985-86.

    * Consultant (Overlege), Dept. of Neurosurgery, Haukeland Hospital, Bergen, 1986-90.

    * Chairman, Dept. of Neurosurgery, Haukeland (University) Hospital from 1990-2001.


Academic training and affiliations

    * Cand. med. (M.D.), University of Oslo, 1965.

    * Dr. med. (Ph.D.)        "     "   "  , 1974

    * Student Research Fellow (NAVF), Anatomical Inst., University of Oslo 1962-64.

    * Research Fellow (NAVF), Institute of Neurophysiology, University of Oslo  1968-71.

    * Research Fellow Dept. of Psychobiology, University of California, Irvine (Professor R.F. Thompson), 1971-72 (2 years).

    * University Lecturer (Amanuensis/1.amanuensis), Institute of Neurophysiology, University of Oslo, 1972-74.

    *  Professor of Neurosurgery, University of Bergen Medical School, Norway  since 1989.


Academic committees and referee activity

    * Chairman or member and opponent of 5 dissertation committees for the degree of dr. med. At the Universities of Bergen and Oslo.

    * Member of the evaluation committees for the Professor Chair in Neurosurgery, University of Tromsø (1992), Ullevål hospital (1994), and Rikshospitalet (1998).


    * Member (Chairman) of the evaluation committee for the position as Ass. Professor in Forensic medicine. University of Bergen 1996.


    * Referee for international journals neurophysiology, neurology, and neurosurgery.

    * Referee for The Journal of the Norwegian Medical Association on numerous articles (neurology and neurosurgery).

  

    * Member of the editorial board, The Journal of the Norwegian Medical Association since December 1999.


Teaching experience

    * Physiology for psychology students, University of Oslo, 1968-78).

    * Neurosurgery for medical students, University of Oslo, 1980-85, 6-9 hrs/year.

    * Neurosurgery for medical students, University of Bergen, from 1986, 20-40 lectures/year.

    * Several lectures for neurosurgical, OR, anaesthesiological and intensive care nurses at  University Hospitals in Oslo and Bergen.

        

    * Guest Speaker: "Psychobiology in the Operating Room", University of Southern California, Oct. 1991.

    * Guest Speaker: "Arachnoid cysts and the controversy about their management", Department of Neurology, University of California, Irvine, Aug. 2001.

    * Guest Speaker: "Why neurosurgeons should be more interested i neuropsychology", Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of California, Irvine, Aug. 2001.

    * Guest Speaker: "Neurosurgeons should be more interested in those functions that make us human", Department of Psychology, Monash University, Melbourne, Sept. 2001.


    * Invited lecture, "Thalamotomy in Parkinson's Disease", Symposium Bergen: "Parkinson's Disease 1991: New Aspects".

    * Invited lecture: "Surgical treatment of syringomyelia", 4th Scientific Meeting of Scandinavian Medical Society Of Paraplegia, Oslo Sept. 8th, 1995

    * Invited speaker: Neuroforum North, Spitzbergen, Spring 1999.

    * Invited speaker: “Arachnoid cysts; biological, clinical and neuropsychological aspects”.

    * Norwegian Neurological Association, Spring meeting 1999.

    * Lectures and operations, 9th and 10th International Workshops on Stereotactic Techniques, Bergen 1990 and 1992


    * Several lectures at national and international neurosurgical meetings.

Several lectures at postdoctoral level.

    * Faculty, All 5 Scandinavian Courses in Neurosurgery, Beitostølen, 1997-2001.


    * Lecture - "Saturday University" at "The National Scene", Bergen, Oct. 1995 and 1999.

    * Lecturer – Introductory lecture at BioMed Camp for Young Scientists, Bergen, Aug. 2001


Administrative experience

    * Secretary for The Council for Post-doctoral Education, Medical Faculty, University of Oslo 1968-71.

    * Member, Council for Specialist Training of Neurologists, University of Oslo.   

    * Member, Council for Post-graduate Training of Neurosurgical Nurses, The National Hospital, Oslo.

    * Chairman, Dept. of Neurosurgery, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, from 1990.

    * Member, City Part Council (Bydelsutvalg) Oslo, 1976-79.

    * Member, National committee for the specialty of Neurosurgery 1990 – 1998.

    * Board Member, Norwegian Neurosurgical Society, 1989 - 1993 and 1996 - 1999.

    * Chairman, Norwegian Neurosurgical Society, 1994 - 1995 (2 years).

    * Member ad hoc committee to evaluate PET technology in Norway, appointed by the National Health Directorate, 1995.

    * Member, Steering Committee on project ”Development of ultra-sound guided neurosurgery” (OFU), University of Trondheim from 1999.

    * Chairman of the Organizing Committee, The 48th Annual Meeting of the Scandinavian Neurosurgical Society, Bergen 1996.

    * Leader of the “Organisation for department chairmen”, Haukeland University Hospital, 1997 – 1998.

    * Founding member, Scandinavian Neurotrauma Committee, 1998 -

    * President, Scandinavian Neurosurgical Society, 1998 - 2001 (3 years).

    * Delegate to The European and World Societies for Neurosurgery (EANS and WFNS), 1998 - 2001.

    * Member of executive committee, European Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery from 1999.

Publications
108 published articles, abstracts etc. not included.