Dan Atar

Dan Atar (born January 12, 1959) is a clinical cardiologist, researcher and professor. He is head of research at Oslo University Hospital, Div. of Medicine, and a full professor at the Institute of Clinical Sciences of the University of Oslo, Norway. He is editor-in-chief of the scientific journal Cardiology.

Early life and education Dan Atar was born in Freiburg, West-Germany, into a family of medical practitioners. His father, Zeev Atar, being an ophthalmologist and mother, Dalia Atar working as a registered nurse. When he was four years old the family relocated to Basel, Switzerland. He graduated in 1985 with an MD from the medical school at Basel University

Career Atar completed his postgraduate training at the State University Hospital (Rigshospitalet) of Copenhagen, Denmark under Stig Haunsø, and the Basel University Hospital in Basel, Switzerland under Felix Burkart. Later relocating to Baltimore, he first joined the team under Robert A. Vogel at the University of Maryland Medical Center at Baltimore,

Atar received his associate professorship (Privatdozent) at the University of Basel in 1994, and his first junior faculty position at the Department of Cardiology at the Zürich University Hospital, under Thomas F. Lüscher. He then served as senior cardiologist in Copenhagen, Denmark. He served on numerous Executive Steering Committees for worldwide clinical trials, particularly chairing the FIRE-study (published in 2009), the MITOCARE trial (2015), and the BETAMI trial (2018-). bestowed by His Majesty King Harald V of Norway.