Torunn Janbu

Torunn Janbu is a Norwegian physician, born on 26 November 1954, who earned her Candidate of Medicine degree at the University of Oslo in 1979. She served as president of the Norwegian Medical Association from 2005 until 2011 and, on her election in 2005, became the first woman in the history of the organization to hold that office. Her presidency placed her at the head of the national professional body for Norwegian doctors for six years, and her election was marked by a press release from the association. She is married to the politician and physician Kjell Maartmann-Moe. The available source gives little about her clinical career, so this entry records her training and her place in the leadership of Norwegian medicine rather than her individual research or practice.