Torleiv Ole Rognum

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Torleiv Ole Rognum er professor emeritus ved Universitetet i Oslo og leder for Gruppe for rettspatologi og klinisk rettsmedisin i Den rettsmedisinske kommisjon.

Articles by Torleiv Ole Rognum

The long road to a specialty in forensic medicine

Torleiv Ole Rognum

22.02.2021: Forensic medicine has been taught as part of the medical studies programme since 1814. Soon, this discipline can finally become a medical specialty in Norway. In 2018, Olaug Bollestad, then Deputy Chair of the Standing Committee on Health and Care Services, asked Bent Høie, Minister of Health and...

The doctors' role in cases of suspected child abuse

Arne Stray-Pedersen,
Claus Møller,
Charlotte de Lange,
Bernt J. Due-Tønnessen,
Jens B. Grøgaard,
Olav H. Haugen,
Omar Hikmat,
Ruby Mahesparan,
Lil-Sofie Ording Müller,
Arne Kristian Myhre,
Mia Cathrine Myhre,
Bård Nedregaard,
Solveig Marianne Nordhov,
Torleiv Ole Rognum,
Karen Rosendahl,
Tomas Sørbø,
Mary Jo Vollmer-Sandholm,
Stein Magnus Aukland

21.12.2018: Violent shaking of infants may lead to a triad of serious injuries to the head and eyes. The question of whether the triad can be used to establish child abuse has been raised. But is the matter that simple? The term 'shaken baby syndrome' (SBS), which was introduced almost 50 years ago (1), denotes...