Gudrun Kristjansdottir

RN, DrPH/PhD

Is a Professor of Nursing and director of Children and family nursing for the Faculty of Nursing at the University of Iceland and is currently chair of research and development at the Landspitali University Children’s Hospital in Reykjavik. Her research focus has been children’s health and illness throughout childhood emphasizing symptom assessment, management and implementation of measures e.g. of pain in infants and children and of physical symptoms. She is a pioneer in the documentation of recurrent pain in school-age children as well as in the area of parental needs during a child’s illness.