Lise Tuset Gustad
Gustad is a nurse and Associate Professor in Health Sciences and Nursing. She is a certified intensive care nurse with a background from the specialist health services, including surgical and medical wards, as well as general and thoracic surgical intensive care.
Gustad works in a combined role between the specialist health services and the university sector. She has a strong commitment to patient safety and innovation. Her broad area of expertise includes public health and disease risk, including mental health and cardiovascular disease, sepsis, disease-related malnutrition, and the use of artificial intelligence to enhance patient safety.
Gustad is the course coordinator for the master's level course "Digital Patient Safety."
Member of the following research groups:
- Health Services and Population Health, Health services and population health | Nord.no
- Central Norway Sepsis Research Center , Om sepsis - NTNU
- Computational Sepsis Mining and Modelling (COSEM), Computational sepsis mining and modelling - NTNU
- E-health, Innovation and Leadership (EHIL), E-health, innovation and leadership (EHIL) | Nord.no
Gustad has taught and supervised across multiple areas at the bachelor's, master's, and PhD levels. She also teaches hospital-based nurses in topics such as patient safety, early detection of illness, malnutrition, and evidence-based practice. She has delivered numerous external lectures, particularly on sepsis, including contributions to the national patient safety program. She enjoys innovating in teaching methods and has, among other things, held regional responsibility in Central Norway Regional Health Authority (HMN) for developing e-learning on sepsis.
To date, she has supervised 5 PhD candidates (3 as main supervisor), 10 master's students, and 20 bachelor's students.
Gustad primarily conducts research in three areas:
- Risk factors for sepsis
- The relationship between mental health and cardiovascular health
- Clinical issues such as the quality of peripheral venous catheter (PVC) management and the usefulness of tools for early detection of illness
She is involved in the following externally funded project:
"Promoting Healthy Aging of Sámi and Inuit Elders Through Co-Designed Digital Health Tool"
She leads the following ongoing research projects:
- The relationship between sepsis, bloodstream infections, and peripheral venous catheters
- Long-term outcomes after sepsis: A prospective, long-term, and comprehensive follow-up study of sepsis survivors using national health registries
- Improving PVC quality in the specialist health services – a complex intervention study
She has supervised three PhD candidates as main supervisor and two as co-supervisor.
