Ester Kringeland MD, PhD, FESC, postdoctoral researcher and a senior consultant in cardiology at the Department of Heart Disease, Haukeland University Hospital, Helse Vest and Center for Research on Cardiovascular Disease in Women. Former Senior medical officer at the Norwegian Cardiovascular Disease Registry, the Norwegian Institute of Public Health. She has a special interest in heart disease in women, blood pressure, obesity, arterial and cardiac organ damage, heart failure and echocardiography