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Thor Willy Ruud Hansen - Place of Birth, Date of Birth, Age, Wiki, Facts, Net Worth, Birthday, Biography and Family
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About Thor Willy Ruud Hansen
- Thor Willy Ruud Hansen (born 21 December 1946 in Fredrikstad) is a Norwegian pediatrician and neonatologist.
- He is a Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Oslo and a former President of the Norwegian Society of Pediatricians (2009–2011).
- He is currently chairman of the clinical ethics committee at Oslo University Hospital.
- His research interests are neonatal medicine, including the neurotoxicology of neonatal jaundice, as well as clinical ethics. Hansen earned his cand.med.
- (MD) at the University of Oslo in 1972 and his dr.med.
- (Med.Sc.D.) in 1988, and is a specialist in pediatrics.
- Following residencies at several Norwegian hospitals he worked in Quessua in Angola as the only doctor at small mission hospital 1977–1980.
- Since 1980 he has worked at Oslo University Hospital, Rikshospitalet (The National Hospital) in Norway, interrupted by two stays in the United States, including as a neonatologist and associate professor at the UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh 1994–1997.
- In 1998 he became head of neonatology at The National Hospital in Norway and in 2003 he became a full professor of neonatology at the University of Oslo.
