Background
Kornstad, Leif was born on April 2, 1926 in Oslo. Son of Ragnar and Solveig Hilda (Braaten) Kornstad.
Kornstad, Leif was born on April 2, 1926 in Oslo. Son of Ragnar and Solveig Hilda (Braaten) Kornstad.
Doctor of Medicine, University Oslo, 1951. Ius docendi, University Oslo, 1973.
Intern, Innherred Hospital, Levanger, Norway, 1952-1953;
assistant physician, Nordland Control Hospital, Bodø, Norway, 1953-1954;
assistant/resident physician department immunology, National Institute Public Health, Oslo, 1954-1961;
deputy medical director, National Institute Public Health, Oslo, 1962-1974;
medical director, National Institute Public Health, Oslo, 1975-1995. Assistant/resident physician Norwegian Red Cross Blood Center, Oslo, 1955-1973, co-director, 1973-1982. Instructor immuno-hematology U. Oslo, 1959-1974, director, lecturer postgraduate courses.
Chairman Specialty Committee for Immunology and Transfusion Medicine, Norway, 1977-1989, National Blood Bank Council, 1987-1992. Chairman blood transfusion committee Norwegian Red Cross, 1982-1987. Norwegian delegate commission on blood transfusion and immunohematology Council of Europe, 1976-1996.
Lieutenant Royal Norwegian Air Force, 1951-1952, 53, 55. Member Norwegian Society Immunology and Transfusion Medicine (president 1974-1975), International Society of Blood Transfusion, Buffalo Collegium of Immunology (councillor 1992-1993, working party on terminology for red cell surface antigens).
Married Anne Margrete Grønvik, August 10, 1954. Children: Ragnar, Olav, Einar, Solveig Margrete.