Camilla Lindvall Dahlgren is Associate Professor of Psychology at Oslo New Univeristy College (Oslo Nye Høyskole), where she teaches courses in health psychology, research methods, and abnormal psychology. She has a PhD in clinical psychology from the University of Oslo, and has been doing research in eating disorders and obesity at Oslo University Hospital since 2009. Camilla is particularly interested in adolescent mental health, and she has been instrumental in developing Cognitive Remediation Therapy for children and adolescents with anorexia nervosa. With research initiatives in epidemiology, diagnosis, assessment and treatment of mental disorders, Camilla aims to contribute with knowledge about who develops mental illnesses, early identification, personalised interventions and factors contributing to the recovery process.
Trine Tetlie Eik-Nes is an associate professor at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at NTNU. Trine completed her doctorate in Public Health at NTNU in 2018, using epidemiological and clinical studies data to research the connection between eating disorders, weight, and body image. Trine is currently the principal investigator for three studies, the MHOBY study (Mental Health & Obesity), Confident Body Confident Child- Norway and Safe Athlete Bodies in Norway. Trine is also employed as a researcher at Stjørdal Psychiatric Centre and is a visiting scholar with STRIPED at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Boston Children's Hospital.
Margrethe Seeger Halvorsen is an Associate Professor at the Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, and she also works as consultant psychologist in public and private mental health care, treating people with eating disorders. Her main research interests are the relationship between process and outcome in psychotherapy, and she is concerned with how research can be made relevant to clinical practice and vice versa. Halvorsen leads the research project "An intensive process-outcome study of the interpersonal aspects of psychotherapy" at the Department of Psychology, UiO, and participates in several interdisciplinary projects related to treatment of various conditions and mental health more generally.
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Maren C. G. Kopland is a psychologist and a PhD-candidate at the Institute of Psychology, University of Oslo. Her research interests are eating disorders in combination with childhood trauma, mechanisms of change in therapy, self-compassion as a mechanism of change in eating disorder patients, within-patient effects and network analysis. Kopland has worked in specialised inpatient unit for eating disorder treatment for several years. The PhD-project is a part of a larger randomised control study investigating how patients with or without childhood trauma responds to either compassion focused therapy (CFT) or cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT).
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Malin E. Olofsson is a linguist and specialist in clinical psychology with a PhD from University of Oslo. She finished her thesis in 2022 on eating pathology and inpatient treatment processes for eating disorders and comorbid disorders in the aftermath of physical, sexual and emotional trauma. Moreover, she is interested in understanding more about how patients and therapists contribute to both favorable and iatrogenic treatment processes, including premature treatment termination. Malin is currently doing inpatient clinical work at Lovisenberg Diaconal Hospital in Oslo.
Solfrid Bratland Sanda, PhD, is a professor in exercise science and kinesiology at University of South-Eastern Norway. She has a doctoral degree from the Norwegian school of sport sciences (2010) on the topic of physical activity in patients with eating disorders. Her research interests include health-enhancing physical activity, athletes’ health, and physical activity, sport and exercise in treatment and recovery of mental disorders in general and eating disorders in particular. She is currently involved in projects on physical activity, lifestyle and health in children, adolescents, students, occupational groups such as personal trainers, group fitness instructors and police, and clinical groups such as persons with drug addiction and persons with eating disorders. She is the leader of the research group Health and Exercise in a Lifecourse Perspective (HELP), and the Nordic Interest Group of eating disorders, sport, and exercise.
KariAnne Vrabel is the Research Director at Modum Bad, Associate Professor II at the University of Oslo (UiO), and the leader of the research group PROUD at UiO. She obtained her PhD from the University of Tromsø in 2010 and has been part of the Research Institute at Modum Bad for over 20 years. Vrabel's research aims to investigate the effectiveness of different therapies, outcomes, and mechanisms in psychotherapy, identify those who do not benefit sufficiently from treatment, and she has a particular interest in the treatment and understanding of eating disorders. Vrabel has supervised/ is supervising 8 PhD candidates and is strongly committed to the integration of research and clinical work.
Line Wisting is a researcher at the Regional Section for Eating Disorders (RASP) at Oslo University Hospital, Clinic for Mental Health and Addiction. She completed her PhD at the Department of Psychology at UiO in 2015, with a focus on eating disorders in type 1 diabetes. Currently, she is working on a prevention program for eating disorders called the Body Project, targeting different at-risk groups.