Erik Fosse

Erik Torgeir Fosse (born 2 December 1950) is a Norwegian surgeon, lieutenant colonel, political activist, solidarity worker and musician. He completed his medical degree at the University of Oslo after beginning his studies in Madrid, and took his doctorate in 1987 with a study of immunological abnormalities connected to trauma. A specialist in general surgery and cardiothoracic surgery, he headed the Intervention Centre at the National Hospital in Oslo from 1995 to 2021, a research and testing department for new medical technology, and was appointed part-time professor of medicine at the University of Oslo in 1999. From 1991 to 2013 he was an instructor in war surgery for the Norwegian Defence Joint Medical Services. He has worked as a volunteer surgeon in conflict zones since 1979, co-founded the Norwegian Aid Committee NORWAC in 1983, and worked at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza during the 2008 to 2009 war with Mads Gilbert, with whom he wrote Eyes in Gaza. He was made Commander of the Royal Order of St. Olav in 2013.