Background
Bergsjø, Per Bjarne was born on March 17, 1932 in Baerum, Norway. Son of Bjarne and Gudrun (Rustad) Bergsjø.
educator gynecologist Obstetrician
Bergsjø, Per Bjarne was born on March 17, 1932 in Baerum, Norway. Son of Bjarne and Gudrun (Rustad) Bergsjø.
Doctor of Medicine, Oslo University, 1956. Dr.Med., Oslo University, 1968.
Intern Bodø Hospital, 1956-1957. Resident in surgery Narvik (Norway) Hospital, 1959-1960. Resident in obstetrics-gynecology Tønsberg (Norway) Hospital, 1960.
Resident in gynecologic oncology Norwegian Radium Hospital, Oslo, 1961-1962, resident in pathology, 1962. Resident in obstetrics-gynecology Aker Hospital, 1966-1969, Haukeland Hospital, Bergen, Norway, 1970-1971. Associate professor Maternity Clinic University Bergen, 1971-1972, professor, 1980-1999, head department obstetrics-gynecology, 1980-1990, consultant department obstetrics-gynecology, 1990-1999.
Head department obstetrics-gynecology Akershus Central Hospital, 1973-1980. Associate professor Faculty Medicine, Oslo University, 1973-1980. Retired, 1999
Consultant to Norwegian Patient's Indemnity Fund.
Ship's surgeon Antarctic Whaling Expedition, 1960-1961. Research fellow Norwegian Cancer Society, 1962-1965. Consultant World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, since 1978.
Visiting scientist National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, 1984-1985. Project coordinator Tanzania-Norway Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome project, Moshi, 1993-1995. Guest scientist Norwegian Institute Public Health, Division Epidemiology, Oslo, since 2003.
Major United Nations Emergency Force, 1962. Fellow Royal Society Medicine United Kingdom. Member Norwegian Medical Association, Norwegian Gynecological Society (president 1975-1979, Schering prize 1992).
Married Jenny Benjaminsen, 1957. Children: Berit, Bjarne Asbjørn, Morten.