Rolf Schøyen (born 30 March 1936 in

Tønsberg Tønsberg , historically Tunsberg, is a city and municipality in Vestfold og Telemark county, eastern Norway, located around south-southwest of Oslo on the western coast of the Oslofjord near its mouth onto the Skagerrak. The administrative ce ...

) is a Norwegian physician and medical microbiologist. He was President of the Norwegian Association of Senior Hospital Physicians from 1988 to 1991 and a member of the executive board of the

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during the same term. He was also Chairman of the Norwegian specialty committee for medical microbiology 1986–1989. He was President of the Association of Older Physicians for six years until 2015.Sparr overtar Elf
'' Tidsskr Nor Legeforen'' 2015; 135:1325-1325 He graduated as

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at the

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in 1961 and became a specialist in

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in 1970. After serving as a military doctor in the

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1964–1965, he joined the

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. In 1969 he joined the microbiological department at

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. He became senior consultant and medical director at the microbiological department at

Vestfold Hospital Vestfold Hospital Trust ( no, Sykehuset i Vestfold ''HF'') is a public health trust which serves Vestfold, Norway. Its main facility is Tønsberg Hospital, which supplements divisions in Larvik and Stavern. As of 2019, the hospital had 5,400 emplo ...

in 1972. He is author of the textbook ''Mikroorganismer og sykdom'' and several articles.

Bibliography

*''Mikroorganismer og sykdom'',

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Akademisk, 2011,

References

1936 births Living people University of Oslo alumni Norwegian microbiologists Oslo University Hospital people People from Tønsberg {{Norway-med-bio-stub