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Meet the team

Midwife

Project coordinator

Midwife

Project coordinator

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Grethe Heitmann

CEO

Anesthesiologist

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Eivind.A. Leister

Financial  manager

Business Economist

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Trond Heitmann

CAO

Social Anthropologist

Phd in international social work

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Sonja Kalsvik

Project coordinator

Midwife 

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Magdalena Værnesbranden

Project coordinator

Obstetrician 

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Ann Morris

Project coordinator

Midwife

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Monica Nerland

Trainer

Midwife 

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Øyvind Svensen

Trainer

Obstetrician 

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Noor Rijnberg

Trainer

Medical doctor

international health and tropical medicine 

Board members

Grethe Heitmann

Anesthesiologist

Trond Heitmann

Master’s in social anthropology and PhD in International Social Work

Kjell Reidar Mydske

CEO Smart Innovation Norway

Sonja Kalsvik

Midwife

Trine L. Setterberg

CEO Partnermed AS

Advisory board

Staffan Bergström

Professor emeritus, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm.  Obstetrician with PhD in tropical medicine. Has worked for many years in Mozambique and has promoted manual aortic compression through publications and instructional videos.

Ove Karlsson

Anesthesiologist,Sweden,  PhD in postpartum haemorrhage

Leiv Arne Rosseland

Anesthesiologist and  professor at UiO, Ullevål. Research director at the Division of Emergencies and Critical care.

Jørn Lemvik

Has been working with Ledership and Organisational Development in around 40 countries. Has lived 13 years in Afrika. Presently working as Strategic advisor and Leadership Development Facilitator with Mercy Ships

Rachel Collis

Obstetric anesthetist at University Hospital of Wales Cardiff.  Editor of several textbooks in obstetric anesthesia and a key person in OBS Cyrum, the Obstetric Bleeding Strategy for Wales

Sigbjørn Nome

Business Economist

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