Dr. Gudrunardottir is Icelandic, but trained as a doctor at Copenhagen University in Denmark. Posterior fossa tumors - and the Cerebellar Mutism Syndrome in particular - represent her personal research areas of interest. She periodically works as a GP in Denmark and Norway, but dedicates the rest of the year to independent research. She is the primary author of the protocol of a large, multicenter study on children with post-operative CMS (Nordic-European Study on Cerebellar Mutism Syndrome in Children with Tumors of the Posterior Fossa), and will contribute to publications related to that project for many years to come.
Dr. Gudrunardottir founded the Posterior Fossa Society in 2014, and hosted an International Consensus Meeting on CMS in Iceland in 2015, the results of which can read about in a Consensus Article that was published in the Child's Nervous System in April 2016. She repeatedly makes a conscious effort to get people from different parts of the health care system to share their experience and opinions on this hot topic in a friendly and down-to-earth manner, and is currently organizing a second consensus meeting on CMS in Iceland in 2018.
Dr. Gudrunardottir regularly gives talks and presentations on the CMS, and has written several literature-based reviews including a book chapter on the CMS and other related topics. She trained as a classical composer before becoming a doctor, and enjoys rowing, fly-fishing, learning new languages and listening to music in her free time.