Background
Thorgeirsson, Gudmundur was born on March 14, 1946 in Djupavik, Strandasysla, Iceland. Son of Thorgeir Gestsson and Asa Gundmundsdottir.
Thorgeirsson, Gudmundur was born on March 14, 1946 in Djupavik, Strandasysla, Iceland. Son of Thorgeir Gestsson and Asa Gundmundsdottir.
Doctor of Medicine, University Iceland, 1973. Doctor of Philosophy, Case Western Reserve University, 1978.
International, resident pathological medicine University Hospitals, Cleveland, 1974-1980, teaching fellow in cardiology, 1980-1982. Cardiologist Landspitalinn University Hospital, Reykjavik, Iceland, 1982, chairman department medicine Iceland, since 2001. Associate professor University Iceland, 1985-1998, professor, since 1998.
Consultant Heart Prevention Clinic, Reykjavik, since 1982. Board directors Icelandic Heart Association, Reykjavik. Chairman Icelandic Nutrition Council, 1990-1998.
Member steering committee 4S. Chairman Icelandic Science Ethics Committee, 1999.
Fellow American College of Physicians, American College Cardiology, Royal College Phisician, Society Scientarum Islandica. Member Icelandic Medical Association, Icelandic Cardiol. Society (president 1985-1987).
Married Bryndis Sigurjonsdottir, July 20, 1968. Children: Thorgeir, Sigurjon Arni, Hjalti, Bogi, Asa Bryndis.