Cecilie Risøe (born 13 August 1952) is a Norwegian physician and cardiologist.

She was President of the Norwegian Society of Cardiology from 2005 to 2009 and is Chairman of the Norwegian Council on Cardiovascular Diseases. She was a member of the executive board of the Norwegian Medical Association from 2008 to 2013. She is a senior consultant cardiologist at Oslo University Hospital, Rikshospitalet.[citation needed]

She earned her MD at the University of Oslo in 1980 and her Med.Sc.D. on heart failure at the same university in 1991.[1]

She is married to the neurosurgeon Ole Jørgen Kirkeby.[2]

References edit

  1. ^ I farta, Journal of the Norwegian Medical Association
  2. ^ "Risøe, Cecilie," in Norges leger (Physicians of Norway), vol. 4, p. 519, Norwegian Medical Association, 1996, ISBN 8290921462