The Nordscreen group

NordScreen is a joint effort of national cancer or cancer screening registries in all the Nordic countries and Estonia. It
was started as a seed project of The Nordic Center of Excellence in Health-Related e-Sciences. and is currently hosted at Karolinska Institutet. The Finnish Cancer Registry is responsible for the management and scientific development of the project and Karolinska Institutet in Sweden is responsible for the technical development of the web application.

Karolinska Institutet:

Joakim Dillner, Center Director of  NIASC
Zurab Bzhalava, IT development
Roxana Merino Martinez, IT development
Suyesh Amatya, IT development
Miriam Elfström, postdoctoral researcher

Finnish Cancer Registry:

Veli-Matti Partanen, NORDSCREEN project manager
Ahti Anttila, scientific lead
Tytti Sarkeala, director of screening
Sirpa Heinävaara, senior researcher
Maiju Pankakoski, scientist
Stefan Lönnberg, screening scientist

Collaborating national partners include Marianne Waldström (Denmark, Danish Database for Cervical Cancer Screening), Piret Veerus (Estonia, National Institute for Health Development), Ágúst Ingi Ágústsson (Iceland, Krabbameinsfélag screening service), and Ameli Tropé (Norway, Cancer Registry of Norway).

NordScreen is run by eHealth Core Facility at Karolinska Institutet.

Please contact project manager Veli-Matti Partanen for more details:

veli-matti.partanen@cancer.fi
+358 50 3510 655