Brig. Gen. Petter Iversen, M.D., is the surgeon general of the Norwegian Armed Forces, Sessvollmoen, Norway. Previously, he served as commanding officer and chief of surgery at the War Surgery and Emergency Medicine Division, Norwegian Armed Forces Joint Medical Services. He is a consultant orthopedic trauma surgeon and has done several deployments to Afghanistan and Chad, and anti-piracy operations to the Indian Ocean. He also has served as a trauma surgeon and senior medical officer.