Petter Øgar (born 5 September 1953) is a Norwegian physician and civil servant.

He was born in Oslo, and graduated with the cand.med. degree in 1978. He worked at Kongsberg Hospital from 1980 to 1983. He was district physician in Stryn from 1983 to 1984 and municipal physician in Hornindal from 1984 to 1995, and from 1995 he was the county physician in Sogn og Fjordane, residing in Sogndal.

Petter Øgar

In 2000, when director of the Norwegian Board of Health Supervision Anne Alvik was first granted a six-month absence of leave, Øgar became acting director. He was succeeded by another acting director, Lars E. Hanssen, in the autumn. From October 2010 Øgar is a deputy under-secretary of state for the Department of Municipal Health Care Services in the Ministry of Health and Care Services.

Petter Øgar

In his younger days he was an able long-distance runner, with personal best times of 9:31.6 (3000 metres steeplechase), 14:47.8 (5000 metres), 30:49.0 (10,000 metres) and 2:37:18 (marathon)—all achieved in 1977. He represented the club Grorud IL.

Petter Øgar

References

1953 births

Living people

Physicians from Oslo

Norwegian municipal physicians

Directors of government agencies of Norway

Norwegian male long-distance runners

Norwegian male steeplechase runners

Norwegian healthcare managers