Silja Torvik Griffiths and Eivind Sirnes,
Haukeland University Hospital and University of Bergen,Norway
Biography
Silja T.Griffiths completed her PhD in ‘Functional MRI, structural MRI and school performance in children born extremely preterm’ at the University of Bergen, Norway. She is a paediatrician currently working as a consultant at the paediatric section of neurology, Haukeland University Hospital. As a senior researcher in the Research Group for Paediatric follow-up studies, Bergen, Norway (http://www.uib.no/en/rg/paediatrics) she has been following several cohorts of very preterm and extremely preterm children, and children with prenatal drug exposure.
Eivind Sirnes is a pediatrician. As a PhD-student in the Research Group for Paediatric follow-up studies, Bergen, Norway, he is currently involved in a project investigating possible neurodevelopmetal consequences of prental drug exposure.