NIDCAP Profile: Bjorn Westrup

Document Type

Newsletter Contribution

Publication Date

2008

Abstract

Björn Westrup, MD, PhD, is the Director of the Scandinavian NIDCAP Center at Astrid Lindgren Children’s and Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden and Lund University Hospital, Lund, Sweden; as well as the Medical Director of Neonatology at Karolinska University Hospital, Danderyd, Sweden. Björn first became attracted to the medical field and the hospital setting when he was a parachute trooper in the Swedish military working part-time as a medic. He was fascinated with the discipline of pediatrics encompassing the holistic view of the family in context to the child. Throughout the years he has maintained a strong interest in philosophy and the social aspect of the family and its impact on health and healing for infants and children.

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© 2008 NIDCAP Federation International, Inc. All rights reserved.

Text is freely available online.

Publication Title

Developmental Observer: The Official Newsletter of the NIDCAP Federation International

Published Citation

Vittner, D., (2008). NIDCAP Profile: Bjorn Westrup, Developmental Observer: The Official Newsletter of the NIDCAP Federation International, 2(1): 14,18.

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