Aslak Steinsbekk

Bio

Aslak Steinsbekk is a professor in behavioral sciences in medicine and health service research at the Department of Public Health and Nursing, Norwegian University of Science and Technology and adjunct professor at professor Norwegian Centre for E-health Research. He is the leader of the research group for health service research and the research group in patient education and user involvement at NTNU.

His main research activities currently centers around health service research with a focus on the patient perspective and how patients experience the complete package of services they use. He is currently PI on several research and development project in medical and health science education including the use of virtual reality (VR), interprofessional education and the role of supervision.

Aslak has mainly published in the areas of health care organization and utilization, e-health, education, communication, patient education, patient participation and complementary and alternative medicine, and has been the PI for studies using different methodologies (more than 10 randomized controlled trials, qualitative methods, epidemiology, and systematic review), as well as extensive experience in supervision on PhD and master level. Aslak has broad educational experience. He has initiated and heads joint educational activity where more than 900 students from 12 professional educations participate (TverrSam and TverrPraks). He has also been in charge of coordinating a semester of the medical programme which includes practice placement in primary care and headed the examination commission. He has developed educational modules at master’s and PhD levels. Furthermore, he has initiated and headed several processes where a range of partners from different organisations have cooperated in applications and in setting up centres / networks. He thus has a broad experience from research, education and collaborative processes.