The Norwegian Society of Pediatricians ( no, Norsk barnelegeforening) is the
Norwegian
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association of
pediatricians
Pediatrics ( also spelled ''paediatrics'' or ''pædiatrics'') is the branch of medicine that involves the medical care of infants, children, adolescents, and young adults. In the United Kingdom, paediatrics covers many of their youth until the ...
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The society was founded in 1919 by
Axel Johannessen, the first professor of pediatrics in Norway. The society was originally named the Norwegian Pediatric Society ( no, Norsk Pediatrisk Selskap), and was an independent association from its establishment. In 1928 it formally became a specialist association within the
Norwegian Medical Association.
As of 2012, the society had 845 members, including 593 certified specialists in pediatrics. The society's journal is called ''Paidos – Journal of the Norwegian Society of Pediatricians'' (παιδός ''paidos'' is genitive of Greek παῖς ''país'', child), and was established in 1983.
Chairmen
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Axel Johannessen 1919 - 1922
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Chr. Døderlein 1923 - 1924
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Th. Frølich 1925 - 1926
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Chr. Johannessen 1927 - 1928
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R. Tschudi 1929 - 1930
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Arthur Collett Arthur Collett (8 May 1879 – 2 August 1968) was a Norwegian pediatrician and President of the Norwegian Pediatric Society.
Background
He was born in Trondhjem a son of estate owner Albert Collett and Nanna Høegh. In 1912, he married Baroness I ...
1931 - 1932
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Alex Brinchmann
Alexander Brinchmann (15 June 1888 – 18 April 1978) was a Norwegian pediatrician. He was also a songwriter, novelist, playwright and crime fiction writer. He chaired the Norwegian Pediatric Society from 1933 to 1934 and the Norwegian Autho ...
1933 - 1934
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K. Utheim Toverud 1935 - 1936
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E. Ziesler 1937 - 1938
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L. Stoltenberg 1939 - 1940
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L. Salomonsen 1941 -
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Arne Njå 1951
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Jens Marstrander
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Martin Fredrik Seip
Martin Fredrik Seip (20 May 1921 – 6 May 2001) was a Norwegian physician.
He was the brother of politician Helge Seip. He took the dr.med. degree in 1953. He was appointed chief pediatrician at Rikshospitalet in 1968, and became a professor of ...
1960-1962
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Sverre O. Lie 1979
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Oddmund Søvik
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Jon Steen-Johnsen 1984–1985
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Karl W. Wefring 1989
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Jon Lunde -1999
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Gro Flatabø Zanussi 1999-2001
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Hans Jacob Bangstad 2001-2003
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Jørgen Hurum 2003-2005
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Leif Brunvand 2005-2007
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Kristin Hodnekvam 2007-2009
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Thor Willy Ruud Hansen 2009-2011
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Marianne Nordhov 2011-
External links
Official site
Medical associations based in Norway
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 ...
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