Akershus University Hospital Lørenskog NORWAY Dr. Guri Ranum Ekås is from Melhus situated close to Trondheim in Norway. She graduated from University of Oslo Medical School in 2008. She was board certified in orthopedic surgery in 2016 and received the sports medicine physician certification in 2017. Dr. Ekås is an orthopedic surgeon and sports physician specializing in knee injuries. She combines clinical and academic work, with a focus on knee joint conditions and traumas, including the pediatric population. She works as a consultant at the Knee Unit in the Orthopedic Department at Akershus University Hospital in Norway. She defended her PhD thesis March 2020: “Pediatric ACL injuries - Management, treatment rational and long-term outcomes”. As part of her PhD thesis she conducted clinical, functional and radiological follow-up of 50 young adults who sustained an ACL injury during childhood. Dr. Ekås participated in the 2018 IOC Consensus Statement on Management of Pediatric ACL injuries. She and her co-workers have also performed a systematic review on secondary meniscal injuries after ACL injury. Dr. Ekås is currently also an assistant professor at Oslo University Campus Ahus and supervisor for two PhD students and teaches medical students. She has received several awards for papers and presentations and received several research grants for her work. She has implemented inclusion of non-operated ACL injured patients in the Norwegian Knee Ligament Registry (NKLR). She is currently involved in a register-based randomized trial on ACL injury treatment (non-operative treatment and optional ACL reconstruction vs. early ACL reconstruction). Also, she is working on the Pediatric ACL Monitoring Initiative (PAMI). Currently, her main research endeavor is within ACL injuries (Improve ACL – a register based randomized control trial) and several other studies on pediatric knee injuries (tibial spine fractures, ACL injuries, hemarthrosis). Furthermore, she has been involved in sports medicine since 2010, working as a team physician for soccer, cycling and skiing. She is currently team physician for the national ski jumping teams in Norway and participated as Olympic team physician at both the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang (South-Korea) in 2018 and Beijing (China) in 2022. In 2022, she was awarded the ESSKA-AOSSM Travelling Fellowship (one of three selected European Candidates), where she travelled to different medical centres across North America. Dr. Ekås currently serves as the deputy leader in the Norwegian Arthroscopy Association and as project head for PAKT (Pediatric Acute Knee Trauma). Her affiliations are Akershus University Hospital, University of Oslo, and Oslo Sports Trauma Research Centre (OSTRC).
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