Professor of epidemiology, University of Oslo, Former member of the Nobel Assembly, Norway

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Areas of expertise

Clinical and epidemiological cancer research

Career

Oslo University – Professor
Harvard University – Professor
Uppsala University – Professor
Karolinska Institute – Professor
Involved in several epidemiologic and clinical research projects on cancer, chiefly in Europe but also in China, sub-Saharan Africa, and the United States

Education

University of Athens and University of Iceland – Honorary Doctor of Medicine
Training as a surgeon, 1969–1986
PhD, 1978
Degree in medicine, 1969

Awards and achievements

Numerous scientific awards
Member of the editorial board of some 20 scientific journals, including The New England Journal of Medicine, PLOS Medicine, and the Journal of the National Cancer Institute
As of August 2019, he has 960 entries in the Science Citation Index with a total of over 60,000 citations and an H-index of 124.

Academic memberships

Member of the Nobel Assembly (which awards the Nobel Prize in medicine)
Board member of the European Academy of Cancer Sciences
Member of the Royal Society of Sciences of Uppsala, the Royal Academy of Sciences of Sweden, and the board of directors of Frontier Science Foundation

Appearances and publications in other media

3rd ed., Oxford University Press,

22 Mar 2018

Textbook of Cancer Epidemiology