International Regulator Conference

The Norwegian Board of Health Supervision and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) invite you to join us at NOVA Spektrum in Lillestrøm, Norway for the International Regulator Conference 2026 on 9 March 2026. The conference is arranged as a pre-conference to the International Forum on Quality and Safety in Health Care 2026 (BMJ/IHI).

The theme of this year’s conference is Regulation & Resilience: Improving Our Impact on Health & Care Quality. We will explore how regulators can stay relevant and empower our employees in the face of changes in society at large. Through relevant keynote speakers and lively round-table discussions, inspectors and regulators will come together and gain practical and actionable insights across borders.

Practical information and registration

• Date and time: 9 March 2026, 09:00–15:30
• Venue: NOVA Spektrum, Lillestrøm.
• Conference fee: Free.
• Registration: Closed.
• Waitlist: Register here for the waiting list.

Program

Hosts: Einar Hovlid, Director of Knowledge and Analysis, Norwegian Board of Health Supervision, and Inger Karin Natlandsmyr, Deputy Chairperson of the User Council, Norwegian Board of Health Supervision.

About the venue and accommodation

NOVA Lillestrøm is located in Lillestrøm, a small town between Oslo and Oslo Airport Gardermoen. Lillestrøm is easily accessible by train, a 10–15 minute ride from both downtown Oslo and the airport.

The venue is a 5–10 minute walk from Lillestrøm train station. For more information on how to get to the venue, see Getting here (NOVA Spektrum).

If finding accommodation in Lillestrøm proves difficult, we recommend staying in downtown Oslo near Oslo Central Station (Oslo S). Some hotels near the station are: Comfort Hotel Grand Central, Thon Hotel Opera, Scandic Byporten Oslo, Radisson Plaza Hotel Oslo, Scandic Oslo City, and Clarion Hotel The Hub.

When travelling from Oslo S to Lillestrøm, be aware that the local train to Lillestrøm (L1) includes more stops and has a longer travel time. Check the board in the main hall for the next direct train to Lillestrøm, or ask an attendant for the next direct departure.

About the speakers

Donald M. Berwick

Donald M. Berwick is president emeritus and a senior fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, which he co-founded and led as president and CEO for 18 years, and a senior fellow at American Progress.

He served as Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services from 2010 to 2011 and is a pediatrician and professor at Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Berwick has held numerous national leadership roles in health policy and quality, including with the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force and the National Academy of Medicine. He is a widely published author and recipient of multiple national and international awards for advancing health care quality and patient safety.

Josh Clark

Josh Clark, RN, MHA, is Vice President of Quality and Safety Operating Systems at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, where he works with health systems globally to lead system transformation through resilience and reliability by designing and implementing Care Operating Systems.

Before joining IHI, he held senior executive roles in quality and safety at large, complex health systems, leading enterprise-wide operating systems and established one of the nation’s largest clinically integrated human factors programs.

Josh is widely recognized for his influence on advancing system-level reliability, safety, and workforce enablement, with national recognition for leadership in healthcare safety, improvement, and IT integration.

Eiliv Frich Flydal

Eiliv Frich Flydal works at VG, Norway’s most-read news outlet. VG initiated the joint investigation Bad Practice, which currently involves 50 media outlets across Europe and America. The investigation, which is still ongoing, has systematically tracked down doctors working with new patients even though various authorities have already suspended them because they pose a threat to patient safety.

Flydal has worked on investigative projects uncovering abuse of public funding, bankruptcy repeaters, illegal work conditions in public procurement, and how criminals, public officials, and sanctioned politicians from a range of countries have poured money into Dubai real estate.

Flydal was for several years a member of the Norwegian Press Association Committee for transparency and a member of the board at The Foundation for Investigative Journalism in Norway (SKUP).

Erik Hörnlund

Erik Hörnlund has an education in materials physics and holds a PhD in high-temperature corrosion from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm. In 2004, he moved to Stavanger for a postdoctoral position at the University of Stavanger, working on hydrogen in steel. In 2006, he joined the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (Ptil), today known as the Norwegian Ocean Industry Authority (Havtil).

At Ptil and Havtil, he has contributed professional support within the materials and corrosion disciplines. After a period at ExxonMobil with responsibility for pressure equipment on the Balder and Ringhorne fields, he spent the last 11 years as head of supervision, with follow-up responsibility for regulatory supervision of all operators and licensees in the petroleum sector, with the exception of Equinor and Petoro.

He is now back in a specialist role within materials technology and corrosion. In addition, he serves as a liaison between users and developers of IT systems at Havtil, contributing domain expertise to ensure that digital solutions effectively support regulatory and supervisory work.

Josje Kok

Dr. Josje Kok is a postdoctoral researcher at the Erasmus School of Health Policy & Management (ESHPM) and Vice-Chair of the Expert Group on Health and Care Regulation. Her work combines ethnographic research with policy analysis, informed by a background in medical anthropology and organizational psychology.

She has over a decade of experience in healthcare research and policy, including close collaboration with regulatory bodies and serving as a policy advisor at the Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Cancer Institute.

Sjur Lehmann

Sjur Lehmann is the Director at the Norwegian Board of Health Supervision. He is a physician, Master of Laws, PhD, and specialist in obstetrics and gynaecology.

He was formerly the County Medical Officer in Vestland.

Ian Leistikow

Ian Leistikow is an inspector at the Dutch Health & Youth Care Inspectorate and a professor at Erasmus University Rotterdam where he conducts and supervises research into governmental regulation of health and care quality.

Ian teaches and publishes about patient safety and the role of regulation. In 2017 CRC Press published his book Prevention is better than cure, on learning from adverse events in healthcare.

Manon Molenaar

Brigadier General Manon Molenaar, MD, MCDM, EMSD, MPH is the current chief of the Military Healthcare Inspectorate at the Ministry of Defence.

She studied medicine in Amsterdam and joined the Royal Netherlands Army in 1998 as a physician. She was deployed with the MOGOS (Mobile Operational Medical System) in Afghanistan. In 2018, she transferred to the Royal Netherlands Marechaussee.

In addition to her medical degree, she specializes in public health medicine. She has a Master’s degree in Public Health, a Master’s degree in Crisis and Disaster Management, completed the Master of Security and Defense at the Royal Defence Academy, and completed the Top Level Defence Course.

Sophia Stahl

Sophia Stahl studied journalism in Dortmund (Germany) and Perugia (Italy). She completed a journalistic traineeship (Volontariat) at CORRECTIV and subsequently worked there as a reporter. Her reporting has focused on far-right extremism, Cum-Ex 2.0, and scientific collaborations with China.

For the past two years, she has been with paper trail media in Munich, where she investigates public health scandals, sanctions violations, environmental crime, and transnational repression. Since 2025, she has also been a lecturer in investigative research methods at the Westphalian University of Applied Sciences (Gelsenkirchen).

Siri Wiig

Siri Wiig, PhD, MSc, is a Professor and Centre Director at SHARE - Centre for Resilience in Healthcare, at the University of Stavanger (UiS), Norway. The SHARE Centre is the largest research group in Norway doing research on quality and safety in healthcare. Wiig is full Professor of Quality and Safety in Healthcare Systems at the Faculty of Health Sciences, UiS. She is also an Adjunct Professor at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway, and Senior Adviser at Stavanger University Hospital, Norway; and Honorary Professor at Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University, Australia and at the University of Wollongong, Australia.

Wiig’s key research interests are resilience in healthcare, patient safety, quality improvement, safety investigations, risk regulation, leadership, and learning in socio-technical systems.

Wiig has been involved in multiple large international research grants and led the Research Council of Norway’s project Resilience in Healthcare (2018-2024) (5 Mill. Euro). The RIH project developed a new theoretical and translational framework for resilience and included an international comparative study across six countries including Australia, England, Switzerland, Japan, the Netherlands and Norway. The RIH project let up the EU Horizon Europe Grant Support4Resilience (S4R)-Strengthening resilience and mental wellbeing through the Support4Resilience toolbox for leaders in elderly care (2024-2028) (6 Mill. Euro). Prof Wiig is the coordinator of the consortium of 14 partners from 9 countries in the Support4Resilience project.

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