Dagfinn Aarskog (medic)

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Dagfinn Aarskog (born December 10, 1928 in Ålesund , † May 27, 2014 in Bergen ) was a Norwegian pediatrician and human geneticist . According to him, this is Aarskog syndrome named.

Life

Dagfinn Aarskog studied medicine at the Universities of Oslo and Bergen , and graduated from Bergen in 1956. He began his pediatric career at the Haukeland Sykehus Children's Hospital in Bergen, where he received his doctorate in 1965 . The years 1964 and 1965 he worked as a research assistant at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore .

In 1964 he qualified as a specialist in childhood diseases and in 1974 in medical genetics . In 1971 he became a professor and from 1985 to 1988 he was chairman of the medical faculty in Bergen.

He was President of the European Society for Pediatric Endocrinology , in 1990 honorary member of the Finnish Association of Pediatricians (Barnlakareföreningen) and in 1991 of the German Society for Pediatrics . In 1992 he was knighted by the Order of Saint Olav .

He conducted research in the areas of perinatal Endocrinology , the calcium - metabolism , human development and malformation and cytogenetics . He has published more than 250 papers in these areas.

literature

  • Cortisol in the Newborn Infant . Doctoral thesis, Bergen 1964.
  • Clinical and Cytogenic Studies in Hypospadias . University of Bergen , 1970.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Aftenposten Nekrologer "Minneord". In: Aftenposten . June 5, 2014, p. 40 , accessed June 19, 2014 (Norwegian, part 1).
  2. ^ Anne Marit Godal: Dagfinn Aarskog . In: Store norske leksikon . Norsk nettleksikon, Oslo (Norwegian, snl.no ).
personal data
SURNAME Aarskog, Dagfinn
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian pediatrician and human geneticist
DATE OF BIRTH December 10, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Ålesund
DATE OF DEATH May 27, 2014
Place of death Mountains