Senior Consultant combined with Professor / Associate Professor

Oslo University Hospital (OUH) is Norway’s largest hospital with over 23 000 employees and a budget of 20 billion NOK. It provides local hospital services for parts of the Oslo population. It hosts regional functions for the inhabitants in the South-Eastern Norway Regional Health Authority, and also has a large number of national functions. The Hospital is responsible for a major fraction of medical research and education of health personnel in Norway.

The University of Oslo (UiO) is Norway's largest research and educational institution with 28 000 students and 7 000 employees. Professional breadth and internationally recognized research environments make UiO an important contributor to society. The Faculty of Medicine was established in 1814 and is Norway's oldest medical faculty. The Faculty works for education, research and dissemination for the patients’ and society’s best interests. It is organized into three basic units and has approximately 1 500 employees (about 1 000 work years) and about 2 000 students.

A permanent main position (70%) as Senior Consultant is available at Department of Microbiology, Division of Laboratoy Medicine, at Oslo University Hospital (OUH). The applicant must be prepared to perform clinical work at all sites within the Department of Microbiology.

The position is affiliated with a part time position (50%) as Professor (SKO 1013) or Associate professor (SKO 1011) in Medicine (Medical Microbiology) at the Institute of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo (UiO). It is required that the position holder attends to both positions.

Oslo University Hospital is a workplace with great diversity. We believe this is crucial for solving our tasks in the best possible way. We want this diversity to be reflected among the applicants for our positions, and we encourage all qualified candidates, regardless of background, to apply.

Regarding the 70% clinical position at OUH :

The Department of Microbiology (MIK) has integrated hospital and university functions, with diagnostic activities currently at the Rikshospitalet and Ullevål locations of Oslo University Hospital (OUH). MIK performs laboratory-based infection diagnostics for patients admitted to the Oslo hospitals and from patients in the primary health service, and approximately 1.5 million analyses are performed annually. The Department has a broad diagnostic repertoire within bacteriology, virology, mycology, infection serology, and parasitological diagnostics. In addition, infection control is carried out on blood donors and transplant donors. MIK has several regional tasks and national reference functions, including diagnostics related to HIV, Clostridioides, syphilis, cytomegalovirus, toxoplasmosis, medical mycology, molecular parasitology and viral import diseases. See also the Department's website.

The Department has 23.5 medical doctor positions, 18.5 senior consultant positions and 5 training positions for doctors (specialty registrars, medical microbiology). Three of the senior consultants have an adjunct position at the University of Oslo, in addition to two 100% professors at the University of Oslo who are senior consultants in an adjunct position.

The Department is organized into 8 sections : Medicine; Bacteriology; Molecular Diagnostics, Virology and Serology; Research; Development; Control and production; Sample reception; Quality, IT and operational support. The environment is academically exciting, educational and at times hectic.

The research activity is extensive and includes both basic biological research and translational research. Basic research is particularly related to DNA repair, genome stability, epigenetics and horizontal gene transfer. Translational research includes studies in bacteriology, virology, mycology, parasitology, molecular biology, bioinformatics, with a particular focus on antimicrobial resistance (AMR), especially in bacteria and fungi as well as well as pathogenesis in bacterial and viral infections. Going forward, AMR, infection biology (microbe-host interaction) and pandemic preparedness will be particularly important for OUS.

The department educates medical microbiologists, provides practical training to biomedical laboratory technician students and participates in the teaching of medical students by being closely linked to the Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo.

Our department is currently undergoing major reorganizations with the introduction of a common laboratory data system, harmonization between two locations and the unification of the entire department in the Life Science Building in 2027.

The main position (70 %) will be that of a senior consultant. The person appointed will mainly participate in bacteriological and / or mycological diagnostics related to antimicrobial resistance (AMR) at the Bacteriology unit at Rikshopitalet, until they are moved to LVB.

Tasks

• Contribute to the daily operations and routine diagnostics of the Section, including assessment and evaluation of clinical samples, validation of test results, supervision, training of specialty registrars and other professional groups, supervision of clinicians, participation in interdisciplinary meetings and grand rounds, teaching, quality assurance and procedural work, as well as participation in ongoing harmonization work.
• The consultants actively participate in the planning of new activities and harmonization in a unified Department in the Life Science Building.
• Participation in 10 shared on-call scheme at Rikshopitalet is currently expected.

Qualifications

Personal qualifications

We offer

Terms of Use

Regarding the part-time academic position at UiO :

For complete job description with qualification requirements and basis of evaluation on the academic position please see :

Applications for the academic part-time position must include :

Please scan and send the documents as PDF files (max 5 MB per file).

See guidelines for designing the application, information for applicants, rules for appointments to Professor II / Associate Professor II positions as well as rules concerning pedagogical skills :

Contacts

Fredrik Muller

Head of department- OUS / Professor emeritus

Phone : +47

Phone : +47

Email :

Cecilie Torp Andersen

Section head / Senior consultant

Phone : +47

Phone : +47

Email :

Tone Tønjum

Professor, Senior Consultant

Phone : +47

Email :

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