E-mail kariaie@oslomet.no / karianne.i.evensen@ntnu.no
Areas of interest Prematurity | Low birth weight | Children | Adolescents | Young Adults | Physiotherapy | Motor skills | Musculoskeletal health | Physical activity

Kari Anne is Professor at Department of Rehabilitation Science and Health Technology at the Faculty of Health Sciences at Oslo Metropolitan University (OsloMet) and Professor at Department of Clinical and Molecular Medicine at Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). She graduated as a physiotherapist from Sør-Trøndelag University College in 1999, has a master’s degree in physiotherapy from University of Bergen in 2013 and a PhD in clinical medicine from NTNU in 2010. She is a specialist in child and adolescent physiotherapy MNFF and has worked part time as a physiotherapist in primary health care from 2011 to 2022. She is head of the NTNU Low Birth Weight in a Lifetime Perspective study and her main field of research is long-term consequences of preterm birth and low birth weight. She has extensive international collaboration and is currently leading a work package in a Horizon Europe project (IMPROVE PRETERM). She teaches and supervises master and PhD students both at OsloMet and NTNU.