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Project group

The project group is interdisciplinary, including data engineers with AI expertise, clinicians, and researchers in palliative care, lung cancer, pathology, and epidemiology. All health trusts in Western Norway are represented, and national and international collaborations are established with researchers at the Cancer Registry of Norway, Harvard University/Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and University of Bergen.

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The project is led by Margrethe Aase Schaufel, Department of Thoracic Medicine, Haukeland University Hospital (HUS), Regional Centre of Excellence for Palliative Care, Western Norway (KLB), and University of Bergen (UiB) Margrethe Aase Schaufel | UiB 

 in collabortaion with

Charlotta Lindvall, Assistant professor at Harvard Medical School, and a palliative care consultant at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, USA. Charlotta Lindvall | Harvard Catalyst Profiles | Harvard Catalyst. Lindvall has developed the software we will use in this study: Lindvall Lab - Computational Palliative Care Research - HOME

and

Bettina Kulle Andreassen, The Cancer Registry of Norway, Bettina Kulle Andreassen - FHI

Henrik Aasved, user representative form the Norwegian Lung Cancer Association Lungekreftforeningen - Forsiden

Christian Autenried, AI team,  Helse Vest IKT 

Cosimo Damiano Persia, AI team, Helse Vest IKT

Øystein Fløtten, Department of Thoracic Medicine HUS and UiB Øystein Fløtten | UiB 

Rune Tilseth, Helse Førde

Tesfaye Madebo, Helse Stavanger and UiB Tesfaye Madebo | UiB 

Atle Totland, Helse Fonna

Nina Elisabeth Hjorth, Palliative Care Centre HUS and KLB

Katrin Rut Sigurdardottir, KLB and Palliative Care Centre HUS

Kjersti Solvåg, KLB and Palliative Care Centre HUS

Tomas Mikal Lind Eagan, Department of Thoracic Medicine HUS and UiB Tomas Mikal Lind Eagan | UiB 

Maria Paula Ramnefjell,  Department of Pathology HUS og  CCBIO UiB Maria Paula Ramnefjell | UiB 

Marta Erdal, Department of Thoracic Medicine HUS 

Atle Rosendahl-Riise, Voss Hospital and Department of Thoracic Medicine HUS  

Steering Committe:

Erlend Hodneland (Research and Development, HUS), Torbjørn Nedrebø (Department of Anaesthesia and Surgical Services, HUS), Grethe Skorpen Iversen (KLB) og Sverre Lehmann (Department of Thoracic Medicine, HUS)

Last updated 12/10/2025