Dagfinn Aarskog

Dagfinn Aarskog (1928 to 2014) was a Norwegian physician, geneticist and professor of pediatrics, born in Ålesund and described as one of the most prominent figures in Norwegian pediatrics. He took his medical degree at the University of Bergen in 1956 and a doctorate in 1965, became a specialist in pediatrics in 1964 and in medical genetics in 1974, and in 1964 and 1965 worked as a research assistant at Johns Hopkins Hospital. His research covered perinatal endocrinology, calcium metabolism, growth disorders and cytogenetics, and he published more than 250 articles. In 1970 he first described the condition later named Aarskog-Scott syndrome. He was appointed professor of pediatrics at the University of Bergen, became a senior consultant at the pediatric clinic of Haukeland Hospital in 1971, and served as dean of the Faculty of Medicine from 1988 to 1993. He was president of the European Society for Paediatric Endocrinology and a Knight of the Order of St. Olav from 1992. He died in Bergen.