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Rune Haaverstad, MD, PhD, Professor
BACKGROUND
MD 1982 (University of Trondheim, Norway)
Specialist General Surgery 1990
Specialist Vascular Surgery 1993
Specialist Cardiothoracic Surgery 1996
PhD 1996 (University of Trondheim, Norway)
Locum Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon, University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff, UK 1998-1999
Locum Consultant Cardiac Surgeon, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK 2000-2001
Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Trondheim 2004-2006
President, Norwegian Association for Cardiothoracic Surgery 2002-2012
President, Scandinavian Association for Thoracic Surgery 2015
Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Bergen, Norway 2007 – dd
Chief, Dept. of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway 2007 -dd
Visiting Chief Cardiac surgery Black Lion Teaching Hospital, Addis Abeba, Ethiopia 2014-dd
OTHER INTERESTS
Aortic surgeryValve surgeryValve repairThoracic cancer surgeryChest wall reconstructionTraumatologyGlobal health surgery
RESEARCH
Heart valve studies, clinical
Intraoperative ultrasound, experimental and clinical
Myocardial protection, experimental and clinical
Lung cancer studies
EDUCATION & TRAINING
MD 1982PhD 1996
