Ingunn Rise Kirkeby

She graduated as a medical doctor in 1986.^[1] She is a specialist in neurosurgery and earned her PhD degree in neurosurgery at the University of Oslo in 1999, with the dissertation Cerebral blood flow during high intracranial pressure and blood loss.^[2][3] She works as a consultant neurosurgeon at Oslo University Hospital and has published several papers in medical journals. As a researcher she has often collaborated with her current husband, neurosurgeon Ole Jørgen Kirkeby [no], who was also her doctoral advisor.^[4] In 2001 she was appointed by the King-in-Council as a member of a government committee overseeing combat sport.^[5]

She played 64 matches and scored 49 goals for the Norwegian national team between 1980 and 1983.^[6] She participated at the 1982 World Women's Handball Championship, where the Norwegian team placed seventh. She currently coaches a girls handball team.