Annette Robertsen

Annette Robertsen is an Associate Professor (part-time) at the Centre for Medical Ethics, University of Oslo and a full-time Senior Consultant in the Intensive Care Unit at Oslo University Hospital. She specializes in anesthesiology and intensive care medicine with a European diploma (EDIC) since 2006.

• Clinical Ethics
• End-of-Life Decision-Making
• Interprofessional Collaboration
• Trauma Brain Injury Ethics
• Moral Distress Management

Her research focuses on withholding/withdrawing life-sustaining treatments, family-centered ICU care, and ethical challenges in pandemic contexts. She led the Norwegian coordination of the ETHICUS II international multicenter study and collaborates with institutions like St. Olav Hospital and the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM) ethics section.

Her recent publications analyze global variations in ICU end-of-life practices, nurse involvement in ethical decisions, and communication strategies for treatment limitations. She has developed frameworks for ethical decision-making in critical care through Delphi methodologies and has extensively studied physician variability in traumatic brain injury treatment strategies.