Professor and Chief of the Department of Internal Medicine, Landspitali University Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, University of Iceland, since 2016.
MD 1989 Iceland,
Fellowship in Gastroenterology and Hepatology 1993-1995 in Sweden,
PhD 1994, Gothenburg Sweden, Post-doc Ann Arbor 1996-1997.
Sabbaticals:
Mayo Clinic 2008-2009, NIH Bethesda 2014-2015, Malaga Spain 2021-2022.
Author of >420 publications. Google Scholar> 43.000 citations, H-index 102
Executive editor of the Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology 2013-2019
Associate editor of the Journal of Hepatology 2019-2024.