Professional interests:

Statistical modeling and simulation, applied statistics, statistical computing and software, teaching of statistics

Ongoing research topics:

• Modelling of breast cancer progression and mammography screening
• Evaluating of cancer screening
• Breast cancer epidemiology
  (= statistical modelling and evidence synthesis applied to breast cancer)

Selected publications:

1. Heggland T, Vatten LJ, Opdahl S, Weedon-Fekjær H (2023)
   Non-progressive breast carcinomas detected at mammography screening: a population study
   Breast Cancer Res, 25 (1), 80
2. Weedon-Fekjær H, Romundstad PR, Vatten LJ (2014)
   Modern mammography screening and breast cancer mortality: population study
   BMJ, 348, g3701
3. Weedon-Fekjær H, Bakken K, Vatten LJ, Tretli S (2012)
   Understanding recent trends in incidence of invasive breast cancer in Norway: age-period-cohort analysis based on registry data on mammography screening and hormone treatment use
   BMJ, 344, e299
4. Weedon-Fekjaer H, Lindqvist BH, Vatten LJ, Aalen OO, Tretli S (2008)
   Breast cancer tumor growth estimated through mammography screening data
   Breast Cancer Res, 10 (3), R41
   (Among the journal’s 10 most accessed articles; Per 2012-08 no.6 with 34987 accesses)

Software packages:

Nordpred; Cancer incidence predictions,
http://www.kreftregisteret.no/software/nordpred

Addreg; Additive hazard regression survival analysis,
http://www.med.uio.no/imb/english/research/groups/causal-inference-methods/software/download/addreg-beta.html

Awards etc.:

• ”Breast cancer tumor growth estimated through mammography screening data” (by Weedon-Fekjær et. al., 2008) was selected as article of the year 2008 by the Norwegian Epidemiological Association.

Research groups:

Part of US NCI-sponsored CISNET (The Cancer Intervention and Surveillance Modeling Network) consortium though Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / Harvard University, USA. See: http://cisnet.cancer.gov/

Teaching:

“MF9510E; Rates and poison regression”, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo

Curriculum vitae - Harald Weedon-Fekjær (open as PDF)

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