OUH - Group members

Ole Jakob Sletten

PhD fellow, MD

Ole Jakob Sletten graduated as a Medical Doctor in 2016 from Jagiellonian University of Krakow. Since then he has been working at Møre og Romsdal Hospital, Division Kristiansund, as part of his internship. He joined our research group in March 2018. Sletten has since 2018 worked as a resident in internal medicine at Diakonhjemmet Hospital, and as of September 2023, his clinical work continue at Stavanger University Hospital.

His PhD work focuses on left ventricular function and the effect of increased afterload; both during left bundle branch block and in patients undergoing chemotherapy. His supervisors are Helge Skulstad, MD, PhD and Otto Smiseth, MD, PhD.

Sletten has presented several abstracts at international and national conferences and has also been distinguished for his work on assessing ventricular function during elevated afterload.

Publications 2023

Sletten OJ, Aalen JM, Smiseth OA, Khan FH, Fosså A, Kiserud CE, Villegas-Martinez M, Hisdal J, Remme EW, Skulstad H (2023)
Mental Stress Reduces Left Ventricular Strain: Can It Lead to Misinterpretation of Cancer Therapy-Related Cardiac Dysfunction?
J Am Soc Echocardiogr (in press)
DOI 10.1016/j.echo.2023.11.010, PubMed 37981246

Villegas-Martinez M, Odland HH, Hammersbøen LE, Sletten OJ, Stugaard M, Witsø M, Khan F, Wajdan A, Elle OJ, Remme EW (2023)
Pulse arrival time variation as a non-invasive marker of acute response to cardiac resynchronization therapy
Europace, 25 (3), 1183-1192
DOI 10.1093/europace/euad013, PubMed 36734281

Publications 2022

Villegas-Martinez M, Krogh MR, Andersen ØS, Sletten OJ, Wajdan A, Odland HH, Elle OJ, Remme EW (2022)
Tracking Early Systolic Motion for Assessing Acute Response to Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy in Real Time
Front Physiol, 13, 903784
DOI 10.3389/fphys.2022.903784, PubMed 35721553

Publications 2021

Sletten OJ, Aalen JM, Izci H, Duchenne J, Remme EW, Larsen CK, Hopp E, Galli E, Sirnes PA, Kongsgard E, Donal E, Voigt JU, Smiseth OA, Skulstad H (2021)
Lateral Wall Dysfunction Signals Onset of Progressive Heart Failure in Left Bundle Branch Block
JACC Cardiovasc Imaging, 14 (11), 2059-2069
DOI 10.1016/j.jcmg.2021.04.017, PubMed 34147454

Smiseth OA, Donal E, Penicka M, Sletten OJ (2021)
How to measure left ventricular myocardial work by pressure-strain loops
Eur Heart J Cardiovasc Imaging, 22 (3), 259-261
DOI 10.1093/ehjci/jeaa301, PubMed 33257982

Publications 2019

Smiseth OA, Ha JW, Andersen OS, Sletten OJ (2019)
The Authors Reply
JACC Cardiovasc Imaging, 12 (10), 2097-2098
DOI 10.1016/j.jcmg.2019.08.006, PubMed 31601383