Background
Partonen, Timo Tapio was born on August 29, 1965 in Helsinki. Son of Tapio and Ritva Ilona Partonen.
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Partonen, Timo Tapio was born on August 29, 1965 in Helsinki. Son of Tapio and Ritva Ilona Partonen.
Bachelor, Laajasalo Lyceum, Helsinki, 1984. Doctor of Medicine, University Helsinki, 1990. Doctor of Philosophy in Medicine, University Helsinki, 1996.
Docent in psychiatry, University Helsinki, 2000.
House physician Kellokoski Hospital, Tuusula, Finland, 1992-1993. Trainee University Central Hospital, Helsinki, 1994-1995. Assistant professor University Helsinki, 1996-1999.
Senior researcher National Public Health Institute, Helsinki, since 1999. Reader psychiatry University Helsinki, 2000.
(Season Affective Disorder (SAD), or winter depression, is...)
Member Finnish Medical Society DUODECIM, Finnish Medical Association, Finnish Psychiatric Association, Finnish Sleep Research Society, Society Light Treatment and Biological Rhythms, European Sleep Research Society.
Married Jarna Maarit Moilanen, May 21, 1994.