Meet the team
Midwife
Project coordinator
Midwife
Project coordinator

Grethe Heitmann
Anesthesiologist
CEO
Eivind.A. Leister
Business Economist
Financial manager

Bjørge Jacobsen
Product developer

Sonja Kalsvik
Midwife
Project coordinator

Magdalena Værnesbranden
Obstetrician
Project coordinator

Ann Morris
Midwife
Project coordinator
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.
Leiv Arne Rosseland
Anesthesiologist and professor at UiO, Rikshospitalet. Research director at the Division of Emergencies and Critical care.
Ove Karlsson
Anesthesiologist with PhD on postpartum haemorrhage. He has been involved in introducing manual aortic compression at Östra, Sahlgrenska University Hospital in Gothenburg
Rachel Collins
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