Dr (MD) Fridbjörn Sigurdsson
Landspitali - University Hospital, Reykjavik, Iceland
Presentation
The Akureyri Clinic: A national ME/CFS clinic
Dr Fridbjörn Sigurdsson is affiliated with the newly founded Akureyri Clinic, which, as the first-of-its-kind in Iceland, specialises in the nationwide care for patients with ME/CFS and Long COVID/post-COVID syndrome. The clinic has been named after the town in Northern Iceland where it is located, which notoriously experienced an epidemic of ME/CFS 75 years ago. The clinic will also serve to better manage the registration of ME/CFS and build a database on ME/CFS and Long COVID in Iceland, providing new opportunities for research. At Landspitali University Hospital in Reykjavik he previously worked as the Programme Director for Internal Medicine and in the Medical Oncology and Hematology department. He previously graduated from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Iceland before completing postgraduate studies in general medicine at St. Raphaels Hospital (now Yale New Haven Hospital) and in oncology and hematology at Yale New Haven Hospital in New Haven. Dr Sigurdson is a member of the European ME Research Group (EMERG).
