Background
Rune is an oncology specialist at Haukeland Hospital in Bergen and was employed as a researcher at the Cancer Registry from April 2023. His research interests have primarily focused on clinical registry studies and epidemiology, with both his doctoral and postdoctoral work originating from the Cancer Registry. In the years leading up to his appointment as a researcher at the Cancer Registry, he served as project leader for a research project on cardiovascular diseases after treatment for prostate cancer at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health (FHI). At FHI, he was also responsible for the National Registry of Cardiovascular Diseases (Cardiovascular Registry) from 2015 to 2022. He is a member of the reference group for the "Prostate Cancer Registry," which he helped establish in its early years when it became one of the first national quality registries in Norway in 2004.
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