CV - Role and Contribution

Curriculum vitae - Ira Ronit Hebold Haraldsen (IHH), former Ira Ronit Hebold (information related to PUBmed and ISI)

Born: July 15, 1960

Nationality: German, Norwegian Residence Permit

Present position: Group leader. Centre Director, The National Gender Clinic, OUS-Rikshospitalet

Degrees:

• 2007 Dr.philos, University of Oslo, Norway, Cognitive ability and its influence by sexual hormones
• 1997 Specialist in Psychiatry
• 1992 Dr.med, LH and FSH pulsation patterns in females (summa cum laude), Friedrich-Wilhelm University, Bonn,   Germany
• 1992 Specialist competence in Neurology in the EU
• 1984 Can.med. Friedrich-Wilhelm University, Bonn, Germany (excellent)

Previous academic positions:             

Max Planck Institute of Neurological Science, Cologne, FRG, 1985-87, PET research fellow; Dept of Neurology, University of Cologne and Max Planck Institute, resident, 1988-1992. 1996-2001 Lecturer at the University of Oslo. 2002-dd Centre Director. 2007-dd Group leader.

Experience with emphasis on innovation and the business sector:

One international patent application recently filed, another pending through Inven2 AS (former Birkeland Innovation, UiO).

Recent awards and honors

• Health Authorities in South-East Innovation Grant 201; • Norwegian Research Council Investigator Grant, 2010-201; • Norwegian School of Veterinary Medicine Investigator grant 2010 -2013; • NMS Investigator grant 2010; • Clinic of Surgery and Neuroscience Investor grant 2010; • Astra Zeneca International Investigator Grant, 2008; • Health Authorities in South-East Investigator grant, 2007-2010; • Lilly Research Award, 2007

Present postdoctoral, doctoral, and MSc students finished under supervision during the last 5 years

Finished PhD theses: 1; Number of PhD-students presently under supervision as main supervisor:  3; Number of MSc students presently under supervision as main supervisor: 3; Number of PhD-students completed within the last 5 years as main supervisor: 1

Membership in academic and professional organisations

• American Society of Psychiatry; Society of Psychoneuroendocrinology; Norwegian Psychiatric Association; International Federation of Psychoanalytic Societies

Academic referee functions, book chapters and 3 selected publications the last 10 years

Reviewer for more than 10 journals on a regular basis. Ggrnt reviewer for the German and the Netherland´s Research Council. Held more than 50 lectures and seminars internationally and nationally, chairman and organizer of several meetings, e.g., WPATH Oslo, 2009; ISPNE 2007; and CPATH 2010; scientific committee member WPATH 2011. Regularly communicates research results to the Norwegian print and television media (4/2010 forskning.no, 28/3/10 Aftenposten, Vårt land, Apollon etc.).