Jan-Ragnar Haugstvedt Division Chair and Consultant Hand Surgery Department of Orthopedics Ostfold Hospital Trust

Jan Ragnar Haugstvedt is born in Norway and finished medical school in Oslo in 1980. He has a specialty in general and orthopedic surgery as well as in hand surgery. He has more than 20 years of practice from Oslo University Hospital where he performed general hand surgery, lots of micro- and reconstructive procedures as well as congenital cases (national center). He had a fellowship in 1997-1998 at the Biomechanics Lab at the Mayo Clinic, USA, where his main focus was on the distal radioulnar joint. This was also the topic of his thesis. He is now working in private practice in Oslo, Oslo Hand Center (an IWC Center), at C Medical, downtown Oslo. He is past President of the Norwegian Society for Surgery of the Hand (where he is an honorable member), past President of the Scandinavian Society for Surgery of the Hand, past Secretary General of the European Wrist Arthroscopy Society (EWAS) and is the current chair of the Teaching committee of IWAS. He has written papers mainly on ulnarsided wrist problems, has authored some 20 book chapters and has served/serves as a reviewer/on the editorial board of different journals.