Roar Strøm
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Norwegian physician, born March 31, 1903, Oslo (then Kristiania); died October 8, 1958.
Biography of Roar Strøm
Roar Strømgraduated in medicine from the University of Oslo in December, 1926, and was conferred doctor of medicine in 1943. He worked in several hospitals in southern Norway, including Rikshospitalet – the national research hospital in Oslo. In 1956, two years before his death, he became head physician at the Telemark county hospital, Skien.
Bibliography
- Leber und vermehrte Schilddrüsenhormonen. Doctoral thesis, Oslo, 1943.
- Øivind Larsen, editor:
Norges leger. Den norske lægeforening. Oslo, 1996. Volume 5, page 248.
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