Michael Bretthauer, MD PhD
Professor of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo University Hospital, Norway
E-mail: michael.bretthauer@medisin.uio.no
Phone +47 90132480
Michael Bretthauer is a Professor of Medicine at the University of Oslo and a Gastrologist at Oslo University Hospital. He is an Associate Editor of Annals of Internal Medicine and the head of the Clinical Research Center, Department of Transplantation Medicine at Oslo University Hospital.
Michael Bretthauer received his MD in 1996 from the University of Göttingen, Germany, and his PhD from the University of Oslo in 2004. He is board-certified in internal medicine and gastroenterology. His main clinical activity is gastrointestinal endoscopy.
Dr. Bretthauer’s primary research interests include clinical trials and clinical epidemiology. He is chairing several large-scale international colorectal cancer screening and surveillance trials, such as the Nordic-European Initiative on Colorectal Cancer and the European Polyp Surveillance trials.
Dr. Bretthauer has served as an associate editor at the Norwegian Medical Journal and as an editorial fellow and CME editor at The New England Journal of Medicine.