Stefan Kutzsche

Stefan Kutzsche (born 15 April 1954) is a Norwegian paediatrician, neonatologist and anaesthesiologist. His research fields include neonatology and neuroscience, medical ethics, education, and the history of medicine.

Background and career
He was born in Frankfurt to Norwegian and German parents, the grandson of the mathematician Theodor Haagaas. He graduated as a medical doctor at the University of Hamburg in 1983 and obtained a PhD (dr.med.) degree in neonatology from the University of Oslo in 2002. He is double board certified in paediatrics and anaesthesiology. He also holds an MHA in health administration and health economics from the University of Oslo (2006), an MSc in health professions education from the University of Maastricht (2011), and a certificate in paediatric bioethics from the Children's Mercy Bioethics Centre in Kansas City, MO (2013).

He was a resident at Vestfold Hospital, Akershus University Hospital, and Oslo University Hospital, Ullevål (1985–1991). From 1994 to 2005 he was a senior consultant paediatric anaesthesiologist at Ullevål. He was an assistant professor at the Institute of Clinical Medicine at the University of Tromsø (1993) and a research fellow at the Pediatric Research Institute/the Institute for Surgical Research at the University of Oslo/The National Hospital (1994–1998). From 2000 to 2005 he was a senior consultant in paediatric intensive care medicine at Ullevål, heading the department 2001–2002. From 2005 to 2014 he was a senior consultant neonatologist at Ullevål. He also served with No. 330 Squadron of the Royal Norwegian Air Force in Banak on search and rescue (SAR) and air ambulance missions in northernmost Norway and the waters of the High North 1993–2005. He was chief physician at the Norwegian Air Ambulance Foundation 2008–2009. From 2014 to 2018 he was an associate professor at the International Medical University (IMU) in Kuala Lumpur, and from 2016 to 2018 the director of the IMU Centre for Education. He has also taken part in voluntary work for the Angkor Hospital for Children in Cambodia. In 2019 he became a special advisor at Oslo University Hospital.

He has been a member and chairman of the Board for Licensing Matters and Foreign Medical Practitioners in Norway (1998–2007), a board member of the Norwegian Society of Pediatricians and editor of its journal Paidos (2009–2014), a member of the Norwegian specialty committee for pediatrics, and a member of the clinical ethics committee at Oslo University Hospital (2012–2014). He is an advisory member of the IMU Centre for Bioethics and Humanities. He is a member of the editorial committee of Acta Paediatrica.

Research
He has published in the fields of neonatology and neuroscience, medical ethics, medical education, and the history of medicine. In particular, he has collaborated with Ola Didrik Saugstad in research on secondary brain injury in newborn infants as a result of perinatal asphyxia and resuscitation with 100% oxygen or normal air. This research, which he and other members of Saugstad's research group conducted, contributed to the amendment of international guidelines for newborn resuscitation in 2010. He has published papers in Pediatrics, Pediatric Research, Biology of the Neonate, Critical Care Medicine, Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, Thrombosis Research, Acta Paediatrica, Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica, and other journals.