Stein Arne Evensen (born 25 October 1942) is a Norwegian hematologist.
He was born in Oslo as a son of a physician. He finished his secondary education in 1961 and the cand.med. degree in 1968, [1] before taking the dr.med. degree in 1972. He spent his entire career at Rikshospitalet from 1973 to 2012, in addition to being professor of medicine at the University of Oslo. [2]
From 1998 to 2006 he served as dean of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo. [2] He ran for election as rector of the University of Oslo in 2005. [3] Evensen has also been a board member of Rikshospitalet, Akershus University Hospital and the Norwegian Radium Hospital. He was also inducted into the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. [2] In March 2017 he was decorated as a Commander of the Order of St. Olav. [4]
In 2018 he was elected as chairman of the Nasjonalforeningen for folkehelsen . [5]