In this talk Klas Pettersen will present parts of his own research within the field of medicine and neuroscience and he will present his thoughts on “deep medicine”, on how artificial intelligence can improve diagnosis, treatment and healthcare in general. Klas strongly believe that Norway could become a leading European nation within applied AI in healthcare, and he will present an ambitious NORA initiative to support this.

About Klas H. Pettersen
Klas is the CEO of NORA. He is originally a civil engineer in physics (quantum mechanics) from Norwegian University of Science and Technology, with a PhD in computational neuroscience from the Norwegian University of Life Sciences in 2007. After receiving his PhD he has been working as a postdoctoral researcher and a research scientist at NMBU (2008-2013), in the Group for Computational Biology and later also at the Center for Integrative Genetics. From 2014 he worked at the Centre for Molecular Medicine Norway (NCMM) and Institute of Basic Medical Sciences at the University of Oslo, and as a Visiting Scholar at the University of California San Diego (2015). He has also worked as a consultant for Accenture.