Professor Kirsten B. Holven is head of section of clinical nutrition, department of nutrition, University of Oslo and a researcher at the National Advisory Unit on Familial Hypercholesterolemia (FH), Oslo University Hospital.

She has worked with research relating to patients with FH, for more than 25 years with particular focus on impact on cholesterol exposure in children with FH and women´s health issues focusing on women with FH, pregnancy and breastfeeding related issues, lipids through life cycle and dietary intervention studies.

She is leading the education committee for the five-year master program in clinical nutrition at the department of nutrition, faculty of medicine and at the national advisory unit on FH, she is involved in organising national educational lipid meetings and making information material for both health personal and patients. She collaborates with the Norwegian FH patient organisation and is member of the scientific advisory committee of the European FH patient organisation. She is the national contact person for the EAS Lipid Clinic Network and national lead of Norway for the EAS FHSC.  She has been part of the scientific programme committee of the Scandinavian Society of Atherosclerosis Research annual meeting; is part of the EAS Scientific Programme Committee 2024 and is in the organising committee of the EAS Pediatric meeting 2023.  She is a member of the Norwegian national nutrition council.