 After additional education at the University of Oslo in 1987 he received the Master of Health Administration degree.He has served as chair of the Department of Medicine and Cardiology, Central Hospital of Sogn and Fjordane, and was the medical director of the hospital.He has been director of research Forum, the research organisation of Ullevaal University Hospital, chair of the Department of Pharmacotherapeutics, University of Oslo and since 1999 professor of pharmacotherapeutics, now at the Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo.