Åsmund Reikvam

Who is Åsmund Reikvam?

Åsmund Ragnar Reikvam is a Norwegian professor in medicine and former politician.

He graduated as dr. med. in 1976 and became a specialist in Internal medicine and Heart disease in 1981. He worked at Ullevål university hospital and Sogn og Fjordane central hospital, the latter as head physician in 1983–1984 and 1989–1992. In 1999 he was appointed professor in pharmacotherapeutics at the University of Oslo.

Before moving to Oslo he was a member of Førde municipality council for eight years, representing the Labour Party. His brother Rolf Reikvam is a national legislator.

Åsmund Reikvam, Professor MD, PhD, FESC, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Norway

Åsmund Reikvam graduated from Medical School, University of Oslo, in 1970, and was a Research Fellow at the Institute of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, where he gained his PhD degree in 1976 with a thesis on “Activation and proliferation of macrophages.”

Dr. Reikvam had his main clinical training at Ullevaal University Hospital, Oslo, and became specialist in Cardiology and in Internal Medicine in 1981. After additional education at the University of Oslo in 1987 he received the Master of Health Administration degree. He has served as Chair of the Department of Medicine and Cardiology, Central Hospital of Sogn and Fjordane, and was the Medical Director of the hospital. He has been Director of Research Forum, the research organisation of Ullevaal University Hospital, Chair of the Department of Pharmacotherapeutics, University of Oslo and since 1999 Professor of Pharmacotherapeutics, now at the Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo.