Professor of Patient Safety, University of Stavanger; Norway

Karina Aase is a professor of patient safety at the University of Stavanger, Norway. She is the founder and former director of Centre for Resilience in Healthcare (SHARE) boasting more than 50 researchers constituting Norway’s largest research centre on quality, safety, and resilience in healthcare. Aase has contributed to SHARE becoming an internationally acknowledged research centre in collaboration with regional, national, and international partners and a large international network. Aase’s research activities cover patient safety, resilience in healthcare, and care transitions within a broad empirical field in primary and specialized healthcare. Through combining her competencies, methods, and safety perspectives from sectors like transport and petroleum in her early career, Aase has been able to translate this knowledge into healthcare. Aase has demonstrated a strong track record for external funding and building interdisciplinary research groups. She has recently published a book on resilience in healthcare that she will draw from in the discussion.