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Dr. Gjerde is senior researcher at the Department of Forensic Sciences of Oslo University Hospital (Oslo, Norway). His research has focused on the impact of alcohol and drug use on traffic safety, and the use of oral fluid testing in forensic toxicology and in population studies of alcohol and drug use.
Dr. Gjerde obtained his M.Sc. degree in biochemistry from the University of Oslo (Norway) in 1983 and a Ph.D. on driving under the influence of alcohol from the Faculty of Medicine of the same university in 1988. He worked as a researcher for the former National Institute of Forensic Toxicology (Oslo, Norway) from 1983 to 1992. After working for a pharmaceutical company for a period, he has been conducting research on alcohol and drug use since 2007. He has authored/co-authored about 120 peer-reviewed articles in international scientific journals (about 60 on alcohol, drugs and traffic safety), as well as about 80 reports, book chapters and popular scientific articles in local and international magazines. He received the Widmark Award by ICADTS in 2019.
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