Faculty of Medicine

University of Bergen

Disputation – Ph.D. Degree

Christine Bjørkvik Erevik

The candidate is from Clinical Institute 2

Main supervisor: Professor Stein Ørn

Co-supervisors: Professor II Thor Edvardsen and Associate Professor Stig Urheim

Trial Lecture: Friday, March 28, 2025, at 09:15

Location: The Auditorium, South Building, Stavanger University Hospital – SUS, Gerd-Ragna Bloch Thorsens gate 8, Stavanger

Assigned topic: “Cardiac arrest related to recreational and professional sport activities in men and women: incidence, prevention and treatment”

Disputation: Friday, March 28, 2025, at 11:00

Location: The Auditorium, South Building, Stavanger University Hospital – SUS, Gerd-Ragna Bloch Thorsens gate 8, Stavanger

Thesis title: “The cardiac response to prolonged high-intensity physical stress: The relationship between exercise, echocardiographic parameters and cardiac Troponin I in middle-aged athletes without obstructive coronary artery disease. The North Sea Race Endurance Exercise Study (NEEDED) 2018”

1st opponent: Ph.D. Stefano Caselli, Hirslanden Klinik Im Park, Zürich, Switzerland

2nd opponent: Professor Maja-Lisa Løchen, UiT The Arctic University of Norway

3rd member of the committee: Professor Conrad Bjørshol, University of Bergen

The disputation will be led by Associate Professor Knut Harboe. Open to all interested parties.