Sverre Sandberg is a MD, PhD and specialist in laboratory medicine. He is director of Noklus, a Norwegian organisation for quality improvement of primary care laboratories (www.noklus.no) which serves about 3000 users of POC equipement outside hospitals (GP offices, nursing homes, oil platforms etc) and chair of SKUP, Scandinavian Evaluation of Laboratory Equipment for Primary Health Care (www.skup.nu). He is director of the Norwegian Porphyria Centre (NAPOS) (www.napos.no). He is professor at the University of Bergen. From 2002–2012 he was director of Laboratory of Clinical Biochemistry at Haukeland University Hospital in Bergen.
He was from 1996–2002 chair of the Committee on Evidence-Based Laboratory Medicine and from 2002–2008 chair of The Global Campaign of Diabetes Mellitus in IFCC (International Federation of Clinical chemistry and Laboratory Medicine). Since 2000 he has been a board member of EPNET (European Porphyria Network), a partly EU-funded project. From 2012–2014 he was president of the European Organization for External Quality Assurance in Laboratory Medicine (EQALM). In 2009–2014 he was chair of the Scientific Committee in EFLM (European Federation of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine). From 2014–2015 he was vice president and from 2016 president of EFLM. He is chair or member of different working groups in EFLM and IFCC.
He has published about 240 peer reviewed papers, supervised numerous PhD students and regular given international lectures in his fields of interests: evidence based laboratory medicine, quality improvement of point of care instruments, biological variation, performance specifications in laboratory medicine, quality assurance of the total testing process, laboratory aspects of diabetes, porphyria and photobiology. He has also been active in some other non-laboratory areas.
Interview about 1st EFLM Strategic Conference (2014/08/28)
Interview about Features of Porphyria (2013/03/20)
