MD, PhD
Department of Neurosurgery, Haukeland University hospital, Norway
Bergen, Norway
Bente Sandvei Skeie, MD, PhD is currently working as a neurosurgeon at the Department of Neurosurgery at Haukeland University Hospital in Bergen, Norway and as an associate professor at the Institute of Biomedicine at the University of Bergen. She was a board certified neurosurgeon in 2005. Her clinical practice is focused on Gamma knife radiosurgery. She was trained by Jeremy Ganz and is one of 4 certified Gamma knife surgeons in Norway. In 2014 she defended her PhD thesis: “Gamma Knife Surgery for Intracranial Tumours – Clinical and Experimental studies” and has later divided her time half and half between clinical work and research mainly related to cerebral tumors and Gamma knife treatment, but also the natural history and treatment of meningiomas. Her project as postdoctoral fellow was “Gamma Knife Surgery for Brain Cancer – Radiosensitizers and Imaging techniques to improve treatment Efficacy” which included one year at The Feinstein Medical Institute of Research in NY. She evaluates novel drugs to enhance the effect of radiosurgery on primary and secondary brain tumors and serves as PI for an ongoing phase 1 trial investigating Salazopyrin as a radiosensitizer for recurrent glioblastoma funded by the Norwegian Cancer Society.
Monday, April 24, 2023
2:20pm – 2:25pm PST
Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose