Bjørn Erikstein
Bjørn Kristoffer Erikstein (born 1952) is a Norwegian physician and civil servant, with prominent positions in the health sector. He took his cand.med. and dr.med. degrees at the University of Oslo. From 1993, he was a specialist in oncology. He worked as a physician at Radiumhospitalet and Ullevål Hospital. He entered hospital administration as vice chief executive of the Southern Norway Regional Health Authority in 2003. In December 2004 he took over as chief executive. From 2003 he was also chair of Buskerud Hospital and Radiumhospitalet, later Rikshospitalet-Radiumhospitalet after a merger. This double role as executive and chair within the same structure was abolished in 2005. When the Southern Norway Regional Health Authority was merged in 2007 with the Eastern Norway Regional Health Authority to form the Southern and Eastern Norway Regional Health Authority, he applied for the job as chief executive, but was narrowly edged out by Bente Mikkelsen. Erikstein was instead ...
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Norway
Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard also form part of Norway. Bouvet Island, located in the Subantarctic, is a dependency of Norway; it also lays claims to the Antarctic territories of Peter I Island and Queen Maud Land. The capital and largest city in Norway is Oslo. Norway has a total area of and had a population of 5,425,270 in January 2022. The country shares a long eastern border with Sweden at a length of . It is bordered by Finland and Russia to the northeast and the Skagerrak strait to the south, on the other side of which are Denmark and the United Kingdom. Norway has an extensive coastline, facing the North Atlantic Ocean and the Barents Sea. The maritime influence dominates Norway's climate, with mild lowland temperatures on the se ...
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