B - Group studying children with feeding problems and/or gastroesophageal reflux:

Leader: Kristin Bjørnland MD, PhD

Scientific staff:
Ragnhild Emblem, MD, PhD, Professor
Bjorn Edwin, MD, PhD
Tone Lise Åvitsland, MD PhD- research fellow, UiO, RBUP
Charlotte Knatten MD, PhD- student
Anne Faugli, MD PhD, RBUP
Astrid Austrheim RN, OUS

Ongoing projects 2009:

B1 - Parental Psychological Distress before and after gastrostomy and / or fundoplication in children with feeding problems and / or gastroesophageal reflux

New project 2009:
B2 - Nissen fundoplication by open or laparoscopic surgery; consequencies for PH-monitoring, Gastric emptying, postop.pain, immunresponse and long term results (Separate application)

Founding:
PhD founding from RBUP (Regional authority for children's and adolescence psychiatry)
Founding of costs from University of Oslo

Collaborators:
Marianne Skreden, MD, PhD research fellow Sølandet sykehus Arendal
Ansgard Aasen, MD. PhD, Professor Inst for kir forskn,
Ole Schistad MD, PhD, Barnekir UUS,
Are Pripp, PhD, statistician, Inst of Biostatistics
Einar Arnbjørnsson MD, PhD, Lund, Sweden