Ola Didrik Saugstad, Date of Birth

    

Ola Didrik Saugstad

researcher

Date of Birth: 05-Mar-1947

Profession: physician, university teacher, researcher, pediatrician, neuroscientist

Nationality: Norway

Zodiac Sign: Pisces


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About Ola Didrik Saugstad

  • Ola Didrik Saugstad (born 5 March 1947) is a Norwegian pediatrician, neonatologist and neuroscientist noted for his research on resuscitation of newborn children and his contribution to reduce child mortality.
  • He is a Research Professor at Oslo University Hospital and Professor of Neonatology at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago.
  • He is Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics at the University of Oslo and was Director of the Department of Pediatric Research at Oslo University Hospital from 1991 to 2017.He is a "world renowned expert in neonatal medicine," particularly on hypoxia and purine metabolism, hypoxia-reoxygenation injury, the effect and mechanisms of oxygen radicals in the neonatal period, mechanisms of lung injury and newborn resuscitation.
  • In 2010, international guidelines for newborn resuscitation were amended, based on the research of Saugstad and his colleagues, to recommend the use of air in place of pure oxygen, a discovery that is estimated to save the lives of 200,000 newborn children each year.
  • He is an advisor to the World Health Organization on child mortality.
  • Saugstad has been cited over 21,000 times in scientific literature.
  • The NRK describes him as "the most internationally recognized and most widely cited Norwegian pediatrician of all times."Saugstad received the 2012 Nordic Medical Prize, is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters and became a Knight First Class of the Order of St.
  • Olav in 2010.
  • His 2019 book Kampen om oksygenet ("The War Over Oxygen") discusses what he describes as "one the greatest scandals in the history of medicine;" former Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik introduced the book when it was released at the House of Literature in Oslo.

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