Petter Øgar (born 5 September 1953) is a Norwegian physician and civil servant. He was born in

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, and graduated with the cand.med. degree in 1978. He worked at Kongsberg Hospital from 1980 to 1983. He was district physician in

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from 1983 to 1984 and municipal physician in

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from 1984 to 1995, and from 1995 he was the county physician in

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, residing in

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. In 2000, when director of the

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Anne Alvik was first granted a six-month absence of leave, Øgar became acting director. He was succeeded by another acting director, Lars E. Hanssen, in the autumn. From October 2010 Øgar is a deputy under-secretary of state for the Department of Municipal Health Care Services in the

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. In his younger days he was an able long-distance runner, with personal best times of 9:31.6 (

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), 14:47.8 (

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), 30:49.0 (

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) and 2:37:18 (

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)—all achieved in 1977. He represented the club

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