Ingunn Ragnhild Rise Kirkeby (born 27 May 1961), formerly Ingunn R. Rise, is a Norwegian

neurosurgeon Neurosurgery or neurological surgery, known in common parlance as brain surgery, is the medical specialty concerned with the surgical treatment of disorders which affect any portion of the nervous system including the brain, spinal cord and peri ...

, medical researcher and former

handball Handball (also known as team handball, European handball or Olympic handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of throwing it into the g ...

player who played on the Norwegian national team in the early 1980s.

Neurosurgery

She graduated as a medical doctor in 1986. She is a specialist in neurosurgery and earned her PhD degree in neurosurgery at the University of Oslo in 1999, with the dissertation ''Cerebral blood flow during high intracranial pressure and blood loss''. She works as a

consultant A consultant (from la, consultare "to deliberate") is a professional (also known as ''expert'', ''specialist'', see variations of meaning below) who provides advice and other purposeful activities in an area of specialization. Consulting servic ...

neurosurgeon at

Oslo University Hospital Oslo University Hospital ( no, Oslo universitetssykehus; OUS) is a university hospital in Oslo, Norway. With over 24,000 employees it is List of hospitals by staff, the largest hospital organization in Europe. It is affiliated with the University o ...

and has published several papers in medical journals. As a researcher she has often collaborated with her current husband, neurosurgeon , who was also her doctoral advisor. In 2001 she was appointed by the

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as a member of a government committee overseeing

combat sport A combat sport, or fighting sport, is a competitive contact sport that usually involves one-on-one combat. In many combat sports, a contestant wins by scoring more points than the opponent, submitting the opponent with a hold, disabling the oppon ...

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Handball

She played 64 matches and scored 49 goals for the Norwegian national team between 1980 and 1983. She participated at the

1982 World Women's Handball Championship The 1982 World Women's Handball Championship took place in Hungary between 2-12 December 1982. Qualification ;Host nation * ;Qualified from the 1980 Summer Olympics The 1980 Summer Olympics (russian: Летние Олимпийские и ...

, where the Norwegian team placed seventh. She currently coaches a girls handball team.

References

Living people Norwegian surgeons Norwegian female handball players 1961 births 20th-century Norwegian women 20th-century Norwegian people {{Norway-handball-bio-stub