Gram, Inger Torhild

Name:	Inger Torhild Gram
Fields :	Medicine, epidemiology
Education/Institution:	M.D. Ph.D/University of Tromsø

 

Biography

At NST Gram will advice, initiate and do research related  to eHealth and telemedicine as measures in preventive medicine and in public health in general. 

Gram was a Medical Officer at the University Hospital of North Norway from 1994 until 2006. Her main efforts were related to campaigns and tobacco control activities among employees. Gram has chaired several appointed working groups concerning this. The goal was achieved when the proposition about “Smokefree employees during working hours” was carried unanimously by the Board of the University Hospital of North Norway” in 2003.

Gram’s research interests include use of Gram is specifically interested in preventing tobacco-related cancers and to use telemedicine in national and international tobacco control efforts. Gram is a member of the reference group for “Opptur”, an internet based quit smoking solution and of the Regional Advisory Council on Tobacco Control, Troms County and Partnership for Public Health. She was a member of the Scientific Committee for TTeC07. Gram gives research advice in topics related to epidemiology, preventive medicine and public health.     

Gram has among other things served ten years as a member of the Editorial Advisory Committee, The Journal of The Norwegian Medical Association, six years at the Advisory Board of the National Council on Tobacco and Health, Norway, five years at the Scientific Committee, Norwegian Cancer Society, four years on the Advisory Board of the  Norwegian Breast Screening Program, Ministry of Health and Social Affairs, and six years as member of the Research Council of Norway, Study Section, Medicine and Health.

Gram received her M.D. degree in 1982 and her Ph.D. degree in 1992 both from the University of Tromsø. Gram’s thesis is titled”Aspects of breast and cervical cancer screening”. A substantially part of this work was carried out during the two years Gram and her family lived in the US, and she worked at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. The part of Gram’s thesis concerning cervical cancer has now been included in an international collaboration headed from Oxford, England with researchers from both the developed and the developing countries.  In 1999, Gram was the first female physician with medical training from the University of Tromsø that was appointed a full professor.

Gram has continued her research efforts to increase our knowledge concerning the etiology and prevention of breast cancer. Gram is the Principal Investigator and founder of the Tromsø Mammography and Breast Cancer (TMBC) study, http://uit.no/med-befolkning/6407

Data from more than 1000 women was collected in 2001 and 2002. So far, ten scientific papers have been published in international peer reviewed journals from this study .This research has resulted in collaborative efforts in several countries. Gram has worked as a Visiting Scientist at the International Agency of Cancer Research, Lyon, France and at the Cancer Research Center of Hawaii, University of Hawaii, Honolulu. Hawaii, USA.

Gram is one of the collaborators in the “Norwegian Woman and Cancer Study”, headed by Professor Eiliv Lund one of her colleagues at the University of Tromsø. This study is also included in the “European Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition including men and women from ten European countries. Gram is foremost working with smoking related cancers in these studies.

Gram has received several honors and awards related to her research. In  1997 she received the  “Biennial American Women Club Scholarship Award ”, in  2003 the ”Scandinavia-Japan Sasakawa Foundation Scholarship Award” and in  2006 the “International Research Promotion Council; Eminent Scientist of the year 2006”.

Contact information

Inger Torhild Gram may be reached at telephone +47 924 01 177 or by e-mail inger.torhild.gram@telemed.no

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