Trond Haaken Diseth (born 5 July 1957) is a Norwegian child psychiatrist. He is Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the

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and a chief

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at the Children's Clinic at

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. He is an expert on behavioral and brain functions. He graduated with the cand.med. degree at the University of Oslo in 1984, received the

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(D.Sc.) degree from the same university in 1997 and is a

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in child and adolescent psychiatry. He was appointed as a senior

at the State Hospital for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in 1991 and joined Rikshospitalet as a senior consultant in child and adolescent psychiatry in 1997. He has been chief consultant (head of department) at Rikshospitalet since 2004 and became a full Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Oslo in 2005. Trond H. Diseth was interviewed in the television documentary ''

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'' in 2010.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Diseth, Trond Norwegian psychiatrists Child psychiatrists Academic staff of the University of Oslo Oslo University Hospital people Living people 1957 births