SUMMARY CV (Revised 2012-02-26. Created 2010-04-10)
Positions (current): Professor in forensic medicine at NTNU, senior consultant in surgical pathology at St. Olavs Hospital, and member of the Norwegian Forensic Commission.
Education: MD, PhD and certified surgical pathologist.
Former workplaces: MD and PhD at University of Tromsø. Surgical pathologist and forensic pathologist at the University Hospital of Northern Norway, Oslo University Hospital (former National Hospital) and the Institute of Forensic Medicine at the University of Oslo (now Division of Forensic Medicine and Drug Abuse Research at The Norwegian Institute of Public Health).
Teaching: General and systemic pathology, forensic pathology and legal medicine in the medical curriculum (120 teaching hours in an academic year). In addition students from high schools and different post graduate groups.
Lectures: About ninety lectures abroad and domestic, mainly on topics in forensic pathology and telepathology.
Publications: (If searching PubMed use: Nordrum I)
| Author | Studies | Editorials Book chapters Reviews | Reports Case reports Thesis | Chronicles Proceedings Corre-spondences Other | Abstracts | Total |
First author | 9 | 8 | 2 | 20 | 28 | 67 |
Co-author | 17 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 13 | 38 |
Last author | 5 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 12 |
Total | 31 | 12 | 5 | 27 | 42 | 117 |
Selected studies:
1. Frost J, Helland A, Westin AA, Nordrum IS, Slørdal L. Investigation of morphine and morphine glucuronide levels and cytochrome P450 isoenzyme 2D6 genotype in codeine-related deaths. Accepted Forensic Sci Int 2011
2. Nordrum IS, Skallerud B. Muscle fibers in the human mitral valve: extent of smooth muscle and implications for dynamic modelling. Accepted APMIS 2011
3. Skallerud B, Prot V, Nordrum IS. Modeling active contraction of porcine mitral valve leaflets during systole. Biomech Model Mechanobiol 2011; 10:11-26.
4. Igeltjørn M, Nordrum IS. Rettslig obduksjonsfrekvens av døde i veitrafikkulykker i Midt-Norge 1996-2005 [Frequency of forensic autopsies after deaths in road traffic accidents]. Tidsskr Nor Laegeforen Juni 2009;129:1850-2.
5. Lillebo B, Dybdahl JA, Nordrum IS. Biopsi ved normal koloskopi [Biopsies of the endoscopically normal colon]. Tidsskr Nor Laegeforen 2007;127:571-3
6. Gustafsson BI, Tømmerås K, Nordrum I, Loennechen JP, Brunsvik A, Fossmark R, Syversen U, Waldum H. Long-term Treatment with Serotonin Induces Heart Valve Disease in Rats. Circulation 2005;111:1517-22. (Best study award at St. Olavs Hospital i 2005)7. Nordrum I, Johansen M, Amin A, Isaksen V, Ludvigsen JA. Diagnostic accuracy of second opinion diagnoses based on still images. Hum Pathol 2004;35:129-35 (Commentary by Cramer SF in Hum Pathol 2004;35:904)
8. Nordrum I, Eide TJ, Jørgensen L. Alcohol in a series of medico-legally autopsied deaths in northern Norway 1973-1992. Forensic Sci Int 2000;110:127-37.
9. Nordrum I, Eide TJ, Jørgensen L. Forensic Pathology in Northern Norway. Requested medico-legal autopsies in the counties of Finnmark and Troms 1973-1992. APMIS 1996;104:465-74.
10. Eide TJ, Nordrum I, Stalsberg H. The validity of frozen section diagnosis based on videomicroscopy. Zentralblatt für Pathologie 1992;138:411-4.
11. Nordrum I, Engum B, Ericcson H, Finseth A, Kearney M, Rinde E, Stalsberg H, Eide TJ. Remote frozen section service. A telepathology prosject in northern Norway. Hum Pathol 1991;22:514-8 (Front page and editorial: Weinstein RS. Telepathology Comes of Age in Norway. Hum Pathol 1991;22:511-13)
Awards and nominations: 1. Nominated to the Best Teacher Award at the Faculty of Medicine, NTNU in 2008. 2. The Department of Morphology (six professors) was awarded the SINTEF price for outstanding teaching by NTNU in 2007 for the Course in General Pathology. The course was initiated and drafted by Nordrum when the curriculum was revised in 2003. 3. The Telenor Nordic Research Prize 1999 was awarded "The Telepathology Group" (Tor J. Eide, Bjørn Engum, Ivar Nordrum, Birger J. Nymo and Eivind Rinde).
Work abroad: 1. Lecturer at Kathmandu University and Dhulikhel Hospital in Nepal from February 9 to February 20 in 2009. 2. Forensic pathologist. DVI-team Norway. Tsunami disaster in Pukhet inThailand. May 2005. 3. Visiting doctor at Office of Chief Medical Examiner, Manhattan, the City of New York. April 2005 (5 weeks). 4. Mortuary team member in Bosnia August/September 2000 (2 weeks). Employed by ICTY (International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia), United Nations.
Leadership and membership: 1. Member, National Board in the Association of Physicians in Academic Positions. From 2010. 2. Member of the Norwegian Forensic Commission. 2009-2015. 3. Head of the Teaching Group in Surgical Pathology and Forensic Medicine. Faculty of Medicine, NTNU. From 2009. 4. Member of the National Disaster Victim Identification Team. 2007-2013. 5. Main spokesman for the Association of Physicians in Academic Positions at the Faculty of Medicine, NTNU. 2003-2007. 6. Head of the Unit of Morphology, Faculty of Medicine, NTNU. 2003-2006. 7. Head of the Quality Assurance Committee in the Norwegian Association of Pathology. 2002-2003. 8. Head of the SNOMED Committee in the Norwegian Association of Pathology. 2000-2003. 9. Vice Chairman. The Norwegian Association of Pathology. 1998-1999 and 2000-2001.
Leisure activities: Playing baritone saxophone in symphonic band and saxophone quartet, and spending time at my mountain home.
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