According to an agreement between the CEO of the Vestfjörður Health Institute and Þorstein Jóhannesson, surgeon and chief physician of the HVEST's medical department, Þorsteinn will retire from the health institute on July 15. after almost 30 years of work.
Þorsteinn was born on Ísafjörður on May 11, 1951 and completed his PhD in medicine from the University of Iceland in 1977 and received specialist qualifications in general surgery in Iceland in 1985 and in Germany in 1986. He completed his doctorate from Albert Ludwigs Universität in Freiburg in 1988. Þorsteinn has a long and successful career behind him. career at the hospital in Ísafjörður, which spans a full 27 years, in addition to which he worked there as an assistant in the laboratory and in the X-ray department during the academic years 1973-1975 and as a medical student in the hospital department.
In 1990, Þorsteinn came to work at the Fjörður Hospital in Ísafjörður, as the chief physician/head physician and held that position until the merger of the health institutions in the Westfjords at the beginning of 2015 and has worked as the chief physician of the medical department of HVEST since that time. Þorsteinn has been on duty as a surgeon at the hospital in Ísafjörður almost tirelessly over the years, but took annual leave in 2012-2013 when he went to work as a ward doctor in the obstetrics and gynecology department of the Staufer clinic in Germany. In addition to medical work, Þorsteinn has been involved in teaching over the years, including teaching nursing students at both the University of Iceland and the University of Akureyri. He has also held a number of courses for medical personnel on the treatment of the injured and critically ill, and has given a number of lectures on medicine and related topics for associations and non-profit organizations.
Þorsteinn has held various administrative and confidential positions in the community alongside medical and administrative positions within the health institution. He took care of local government affairs in the years 1994 - 2002 and for a time held the position of president of the town council of Ísafjarðar and Ísafjarðarbær and was chairman of the town council of Ísafjarðarbær. Þorsteinn has served on various boards and committees and has been active in social affairs. Þorsteinn has three children and his wife is Margrét Kristín Hreinsdóttir, a nurse.
On behalf of the Vestfjörður Health Foundation, I would like to thank Þorstein for his great and good contribution to health care in the Westfjörður over the last three decades and for his loyalty and devotion to the organization and its clients. We wish him all the best for the future.
June 16, 2017/Kristín B. Albertsdóttir, CEO of HVEST
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