Ingunn Rise Kirkeby

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Ingunn Rise Kirkeby
Born27 May 1961
Other namesIngunn R. Rise
Alma materUniversity of Oslo
Scientific career
FieldsNeurosurgery
InstitutionsOslo University Hospital
ThesisCerebral blood flow during high intracranial pressure and blood loss (1999)

Ingunn Ragnhild Rise Kirkeby (born 27 May 1961), formerly Ingunn R. Rise, is a Norwegian neurosurgeon, medical researcher and former handball player who played on the Norwegian national team in the early 1980s.

Neurosurgery[edit]

She graduated as a medical doctor in 1986.[1] She is a specialist in neurosurgery and earned her PhD degree in neurosurgery at the University of Oslo in 1999, with the dissertation Cerebral blood flow during high intracranial pressure and blood loss.[2][3] She works as a consultant neurosurgeon at Oslo University Hospital and has published several papers in medical journals. As a researcher she has often collaborated with her current husband, neurosurgeon Ole Jørgen Kirkeby [no], who was also her doctoral advisor.[4] In 2001 she was appointed by the King-in-Council as a member of a government committee overseeing combat sport.[5]

Handball[edit]

Ingunn Rise Kirkeby
Personal information
Nationality Norwegian
National team
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1980–1983
Norway 64[6] (49)

She played 64 matches and scored 49 goals for the Norwegian national team between 1980 and 1983.[6] She participated at the 1982 World Women's Handball Championship, where the Norwegian team placed seventh. She currently coaches a girls handball team.

References[edit]

  1. ^ Larsen, Øivind, ed. (1996). "Rise, Ingunn Ragnhild". Norges leger [Physicians of Norway] (in Norwegian). Vol. 4. Oslo: Norwegian Medical Association. p. 517. ISBN 8290921446.
  2. ^ Doktorgrader ved Det medisinske fakultet august 1989–juni 2014, Michael
  3. ^ Doktorgrader, Universitas, 1999
  4. ^ Rise, Ingunn R. (1999). Cerebral blood flow during high intracranial pressure andblood loss. Institute for Surgical Research, National Hospital, Department of Neurosurgery, Ullevål Hospital, Department of Neurosurgery, National Hospital, University of Oslo. ISBN 8277221053.
  5. ^ Offisielt fra statsråd 31. august 2001
  6. ^ a b "Landskampstatistikk. Totaloversikt for Kirkeby, Ingunn Rise" (in Norwegian). Norwegian Handball Federation. Archived from the original on 5 September 2012. Retrieved 21 December 2010.