Alma D. Möller
Alma D. Möller, MD, PhD, EMPH is the Medical Director of Health. The Directorate of Health has many roles and responsibilities within public health, eHealth, infectious-disease control, health care preparedness and monitoring of health care services, health care practitioners, drug prescriptions and biobanks. The Directorate also issues licences to health professionals, handles complaints, investigates serious adverse events and gathers and processes health data.
Alma is a physician, with a specialist degree and a PhD in anaesthesia and intensive care from Lund University, Sweden. She also has a specialist degree in health care administration and a master's degree in public health and administration. Further, she has a diploma degree in public administration.
Alma was clinically active until she took on the current office as the Medical Director of Health in 2018, when she became the first woman to serve since the office was established in 1760. She was also the first woman to serve as a helicopter field doctor with the Icelandic Coast Guard. Alma has previously worked at the University Hospital in Lund, Sweden and as a clinician, chief and senior administrator of anaesthesia and intensive Care at the Landspitali University Hospital in Reykjavík, as well as being an assistant professor and teacher at the University of Iceland.
Having worked with intensive care patients during her professional life, Alma emphasises the importance of promoting public health in meeting the challenges facing health and health care services. She also takes a special interest in improving the value, quality, and safety of health care.