Study
Matriculated at Menntaskólinn við Sund from the Natural Sciences Course in 1979. Medical degree from the University of Iceland in 1987. General medical leave Sept. 12. 1989. Specialist accreditation in psychiatry Nov. 19. 1996 issued by the Ministry of Health and Social Security. Specialist training in Iceland various psychiatric departments 1988 – 1992, Specialist training in Norway in Trondheim, general psychiatry, paediatric and adolescent psychiatry, outpatient clinic, PST 01.10.94 – 01.07.95. University Hospital with an active educational program, mentoring and research department. Region sykehuset in Trondheim, Neurological Unit six months 01.07.95 – 01.02.96, Outpatient Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, PST 01.02.96 – 30.09.96. Then I started working at the emergency psychiatric ward of SHR in Fossvogur A2, 01.10.96 and have been working there ever since, but the department later moved to Landspítali University Hospital and is called 32 A. Until 2005 I was active in the development of the White Band outpatient clinic with an emphasis on psychoanalytic therapy in a group for patients with bipolar disorder, mood disorders and personality disorders. Since February 1997, I have also worked in Room 2 afternoons a week with a primary focus on interview therapy based on psychoanalytic therapy, individual and group therapy, and medication of mental disorders. I increased my 2006 chamber work to 2 afternoons and one full day a week. I have been involved in various studies since I was a medical candidate and was always involved in some research at different times. But what was the biggest research project I started and later participated in with others was the study of the genetic aspects of schizophrenia first and foremost, but later also the genetic aspects of bipolar disorder.
Miscellaneous writing
A translation of the Schedule for affective disorder and Schizophrenia – Life Time version (SADS – LB) in Icelandic with Tómas Zoëga and Helgi Kristbjarnarson psychiatrists, published by the University of Iceland Press in 1989. Geðlækningar Res 1993 janúar; 46 (1): 69-78. Engar vísbendingar um tengsl geðklofa og D3 dópamínviðtakagens í íslenskum ættbókum. Wiese C, Lannfelt L, Kristbjarnarson H, Yang L, Zoëga T, Sokoloff P, Ivarsson O, Schwartz JC, Moises HW, Helgason T. Nat Genet 1995 nóv.; 11 (3): 321-4 Alþjóðleg tveggja þrepa erfðamengis-breið leit að geðklofa næmi genum. Moises HW, Yang L, Kristbjarnarson H, Wiese C, Byerley W, Macciardi F, Arolt V, Blackwood D, Liu X, Sjögren B, Ivarsson, O o.fl. Dept of Psych, Kiel Univ Hosp, Þýskalandi. Am J Hum Genet. 2002 október;71(4):877-92. Epub 2002 júlí 23. Tenglar taugaveiklun 1 og næmi fyrir geðklofa. Stefánsson H, Sigurðsson E, Steinþórsdóttir V, Björnsdóttir S, Sigmundsson T, Ghosh S, Brynjólfsson J, Gunnarsdóttir S, Ívarsson O, Chou TT, Hjaltason O, Birgisdóttir B, Jónsson H, Guðnadóttir VG, Guðmundsdóttir E, Björnsson A, Ingvarsson B, Ingason A, Sigfússon S, Harðardóttir H, Harvey RP, Lai D, Zhou M, Brunner D, Mutel V, Gonzalo A, Lemke G, Sainz J, Jóhannesson G, Andrésson T, Guðbjartsson D, Manolescu A, Frigge ML, Gurney ME, Kong A, Gulcher JR, Pétursson H, Stefánsson K. Íslensk erfðafræði, Reykjavík. kstefans@decode.is. Nord J Geðlækningar. 2006;60(4):282-5. Áhrif endurtekinnar segulörvunar yfir höfuðkúpu á þunglyndiseinkenni og P(300) atburðatengda möguleika. Möller AL, Hjaltason O, Ívarsson O, Stefánsson SB.
