Timo Joensuu

Timo Joensuu (b. 27 February 1957 in Nokia, Finland) is a Finnish oncologist, associate professor of clinical oncology in University of Helsinki, researcher of new cancer treatments and developer of an internationally new hospital concept. He is a co-founder of Docrates Cancer Center in Helsinki and its clinical director since 2007.

Dr Joensuu studied medicine in the University of Tampere. He graduated MBBS and qualified professional MD 1986 and presented his doctoral thesis on cytodifferentation in 1992. 1991–1993 he had a research fellowship in INSERM, Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale in Paris. Joensuu specialized in oncology, radio therapy and nuclear medicine in Helsinki University Hospital where he worked 1991-2007. He has also been medical advisor for AstraZeneca and for Helsinki Consulting Group and World Bank in Serbia year 2004. Since 2007 he is the clinical director of Docrates Cancer Center and member of the board of directors of the company.

Timo

Timo is a masculine given name. Notable people with the name include:

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Joensuu

Joensuu (lit. "mouth of the river"; Russian: Йоэнсуу) is a city and municipality in North Karelia in the province of Eastern Finland. It was founded in 1848. The population of Joensuu is 74,941 (June 30, 2015), although the economic region of Joensuu has a population of 115,000.

Joensuu is a lively student city with over 15,000 students enrolled at the University of Eastern Finland and a further 4,000 at the North Karelia University of Applied Sciences.

The largest employers are the municipal City of Joensuu, North Karelian Hospital District Federation of Municipalities, Abloy and Punamusta.

The European Forest Institute, the University and many other institutes and export enterprises such as Abloy and John Deere Forestry give Joensuu an international flavour. Joensuu is as typical of cities in Eastern Finland monolingually Finnish.

History

The city of Joensuu, which was founded by the Czar Nicholas I of Russia in 1848, is the regional centre and the capital of North Karelia. During the 19th century Joensuu was a city of manufacture and commerce. When in 1860 the city received dispensation rights to initiate commerce, former restrictions against industry were removed and the local sawmills began to prosper and expand. Water traffic was improved by the building of the Saimaa Canal. Consequently, a lively commerce between the regions of North Karelia, St. Petersburg and Central Europe was enabled. At the end of the 19th century Joensuu was one of the largest harbour cities in Finland.

Joensuu (surname)

Joensuu is a Finnish surname. Notable people with the surname include:

1524 Joensuu

1524 Joensuu, provisional designation 1939 SB, is a carbonaceous asteroid from the outer region of the asteroid belt, about 43 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered by Finnish astronomer Yrjö Väisälä at the Turku Observatory in Southwest Finland, on 18 September 1939.

The dark C-type asteroid orbits the Sun at a distance of 2.7–3.5 AU once every 5 years and 6 months (2,003 days). Its orbit shows an eccentricity of 0.12 and is tilted by 13 degrees to the plane of the ecliptic. It has a rotation period of 9.3 hours and an albedo in the range of 0.03 to 0.06, according to the surveys carried out by IRAS, Akari, WISE and NEOWISE.

The minor planet was named for the Finnish town Joensuu, where the discoverer received his early schooling. It is located in North Karelia, near the Russian border.

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