Dr
Barbara Baumgarten was born in Hamburg, germany, and moved to Norway
in 1980.
Studied medicine at the University of Oslo, graduated in 1992. From
1992-93 she worked at a hospital in internal medicine and
surgery. From 1993 she has been working in General Practice, with a
two year assignment at a nursing home.
Since 1996 she has had her own practice and has been seeing patients
with ME since 1997.
From April 2006 she has been working one day a week as a GP at the
department for infectious diseases, Ullevål University Hospital,
Oslo. Her work there was to look at the need of specialized medical
services for ME-patients.
That has resulted in a new ME-clinic. Since August 2008 her my main
job at Ullevål University Hospital has been leader for the new
ME-center, which was officially opened at December 11th
2008.
The ME Centre in Oslo is unique in
that patients have been closely involved in its formation.
Dr Baumgarten
has given many lectures about ME for GP’s, at hospitals and for the
Norwegian ME Association.
She
is a board member at the Oslo branch of the Norwegian Medical
Association.