Dear everyone,

For those who do not know me, my name is Svein Skeie, and I am the Research Director at Stavanger University Hospital (SUS) and an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Medicine/K2. My professional background includes specialties in internal medicine, geriatrics, and endocrinology. I am pleased to be part of the leadership team at K2, and it is natural for me to write a leader’s note from time to time.

At SUS, we are now well underway with Vestlandslegen – both with students and positions. It is a significant challenge to implement the study plan in the hospital. We are also building a new hospital (new SUS), where most of the somatic inpatient activities will move in November 2025. This also needs to be prepared for UiB. In the new hospital, UiB has about 1000m² of its own space, providing a much better starting point than we previously had for practice students (2015 plan). Alongside building the education, research activities will also be developed. Research has not been the main focus so far, but with more employees in part-time positions, new opportunities arise, also for colleagues employed in Bergen. The research opportunities at SUS are good, and increased collaboration can provide new research opportunities for the subjects under K2. In 2023, SUS and UiB had a total of 163 co-publications, showing that there is already significant activity.

Perhaps you have colleagues at SUS with whom it would be natural to collaborate more? Maybe you want to collaborate but are unsure how to establish it? If you need help finding your way into SUS, please feel free to contact me.

Have an excellent weekend!

Svein