Petter Andreas Steen MD, PhD

Petter Andreas Steen is the Professor of Emergency Medicine at University of Oslo and Ulleval University Hospital. He is Vice Chairman of the Norwegian Air Ambulance Foundation, a Trustee of the Laerdal Foundation for Acute Medicine, and the lead scientist clinician in the very active Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Group at the Institute for Experimental Medical Research in Oslo, Norway. He has published over 300 papers, articles and book chapters of which 227 appear in Medline and mentored 18 PhD fellows, a truly remarkable accomplishment. Petter Andreas is the immediate past Chair of the European Resuscitation Council and past co-chair of ILCOR, and as such played a major role in the international scientific review and guideline processes in both 2000 and 2005. He has received many awards. In 2005 he was nominated as an ILCOR “Giant of Resuscitation” and received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Heart Association. In 2006 Petter Andreas Steen was awarded an honorary membership of the European Resuscitation Council.