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28th January 2026

Elísabet Benedikz appointed temporary Medical Director of Health

The Minister of Health has appointed Elísabet Benedikz as the temporary Medical Director of Health while Medical Director María Heimisdóttir is on sick leave.

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Elísabet is a physician by training, with specialist licenses in internal medicine, intensive care medicine, and emergency medicine, as well as a master's degree in public administration. For years, she has worked as a senior physician at Landspítali University Hospital, including in the emergency department and the quality and infection control department. For the past two years, she has been the senior physician of the administrative department of clinical services at Landspítali.

Elísabet will assume her duties on February 1.

Further information
Kjartan Hreinn Njálsson, assistant to the Medical Director of Health
kjartan.h.njalsson@landlaeknir.is