Stig Arild Slørdahl (born 6 March 1959) is

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of the Central Norway Regional Health Authority. He has a background as a Norwegian

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and specialist in Internal Medicine and

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. He has been dean at the Faculty of Medicine at the

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(NTNU) and attending physician at St. Olavs Hospital in Trondheim. Slørdahl's research background is in cardiac ultrasound and

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of cardiac patients. He was chair of The Joint Committee of the Nordic Medical Research Councils (NOS-M) 2010-2012 and member of the European Medical Research Councils Core Group 2009-2012. He is now chairing the Scientific Review Group for the Biomedical Sciences in

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and has been a member of the board of Division for Science at

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. He has also been member of the board of

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and The Cancer Registry of Norway. Slørdahl has led the work to establish The Norwegian Myocardial Infarct Registry.Article on the registry
in Journal of the Norwegian Medical Association

Selected publications

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NTNU's information on Slørdahl
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