International Academy of Medical and Biological Engineering

The International Academy of Medical and Biological Engineering (IAMBE) is a non-profit society of distinguished scholars engaged in medical and biological engineering research to further the field of biomedical engineering or bioengineering. The academy is composed of Fellows who have made significant contributions to and played leadership roles in the field of medical and biological engineering. The academy is affiliated with the International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering (IFMBE), an international organization consisting of more than 60 national and transnational societies of biomedical engineering, representing over 120,000 members.

The academy was established by International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering in 1997 to honor individuals who have contributed significantly to the theory and practice of medical and biological engineering, and made extraordinary leadership efforts in promoting the field of medical and biological engineering.

The academy has engaged in public debates in identifying grand challenges in engineering life sciences, and played an advisory role to the leadership of International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering. A recent conference endorsed by the academy is IEEE Life Sciences Grand Challenges Conference, which consists of distinguished speakers including Nobel Laureate, National Medal of Sciences Laureate, National Medal of Technology Laureate, president of National Academy of Engineering, director of National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering of NIH, and chair of the International Academy of Medical and Biological Engineering.

Fellow nominations are accepted either annually or every three years. Fellows may be nominated by a fellow of the academy or by International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering. The nominations are screened by the Membership Committee of the academy. Election to Fellow status is subject to a vote by all current Fellows.

The founding chair of the academy is Robert Nerem, Parker H. Petit Distinguished Chair for Engineering in Medicine and Institute Professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology. The immediate Past Chair of the academy is Niilo Saranummi, Research Professor at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and Past President of International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering. The current chair of the academy is Roger Kamm, Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Biological and Mechanical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

List of fellows Metin Akay, '12, University of Houston, USA Joji Ando, '09, Dokkyo Medical University, Japan Lars Arendt-Nielsen, '03, Aalborg University, Denmark Kazuhiko Atsumi, FF, FE, University of Tokyo, Japan Albert Avolio, '12, Macquarie University, Australia Jing Bai, '12, Tsinghua University, China James Bassingthwaighte, '09, University of Washington, USA Rebecca Bergman, '12, Medtronic, USA Marcello Bracale, '03, University of Naples Federico II, Italy Per-Ingvar Branemark, '00, University of Gothenburg, Sweden Colin Caro, '00, Imperial College London, UK Ewart Carson, '06, City University London, UK Sergio Cerutti, '03, Polytechnic University in Milan (Politecnico), Italy Walter H. Chang, '06, Chung Yuan Christian University, Taiwan Shu Chien, '00, University of California San Diego, USA Jean-Louis Coatrieux, '02, University of Rennes 1, France Richard S. C. Cobbold, FF, University of Toronto, Canada Paolo Dario, '03, Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies of Pisa, Italy Ivan Daskalov, '03 (Deceased), Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria David Delpy, '03, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), UK Jacques Demongeot, '12, University Joseph Fourier, France André Dittmar, '12, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), France Takeyoshi Dohi, '06, University of Tokyo, Japan Olaf Doessel, '12, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany Floyd Dunn, FF, FE, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Shmuel Einav, '05, Tel Aviv University, Israel Ross Ethier, '09, Imperial College London, UK Uwe Faust, FF, FE, University of Stuttgart, Germany Leszek Filipczynski, FF, FE (Deceased), Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland Yuan-Cheng B. Fung, FF, FE, University of California San Diego, USA Leslie Alexander Geddes, FF (Deceased), University of Toronto, Canada Amit Gefen, '14, Tel Aviv University, Israel Morteza Gharib, '12, California Institute of Technology, USA Bin He, '12, University of Minnesota, USA Hiie Hinrikus, '03, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia Nozomu Hoshimiya, '06, Tohoku Gakuin University, Japan Peter Hunter, '03, University of Auckland, New Zealand Helmut Hutten, '03, Graz University of Technology, Austria Dov Jaron, '06, Drexel University, USA Fumihiko Kajiya, '00, Kawasaki University of Medical Welfare, Japan Akira Kamiya, '02, Nihon University, Japan Roger D. Kamm, '06, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Hiroshi Kanai, FF, FE, Tohoku University, Japan Zhenhuang Kang, FF, Chengdu University of Science and Technology, China Toivo Katila, '03, Helsinki University central Hospital, Finland Richard E. Kerber, '09, University of Iowa, USA Makoto Kikuchi, '12, National Defence Medical College, Japan Yongmin Kim, '09, Pohang University of Science and Technology, South Korea Richard Kitney, '03, Imperial College London, UK Peter Kneppo, '03, Czech Technical University, Czech Republic Pablo Laguna, '12, University of Zaragoza, Spain Daniel Laurent, FF, FE, Universite Marne-La-Vallee, France Raphael Lee, '12, University of Chicago, USA Peter Lewin, '12, Drexel University, USA Pai-Chi Li, '09, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Zhi-Pei Liang, '12, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA John H. Linehan, '06, Northwestern University, USA Jaakko Malmivuo, '03, Tampere University of Technology, Finland Roman Maniewski, '03, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland Andrew McCulloch, '05, University of California San Diego, USA Jean-Pierre Morucci, FE, National Institute of Health and Medical Research, France Joachim Nagel, '12, University of Stuttgart, Germany Maciej Nalecz, FF, FE (Deceased), Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland Robert M. Nerem, FF, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Peter Niederer, '00, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Benno M. Nigg, '00, University of Calgary, Canada Marc Nyssen, '12, Free University Brussels, Belgium P. Ake Oberg, FF, Linkoping University, Sweden Kazuo Ogino, '12, Nihon Kohden Corporation, Japan Nicolas Pallikarakis, '05, University of Patras, Greece John P Paul, FF, FE, University of Strathclyde, UK Antonio Pedotti, '00, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Robert Plonsey, FF, FE, Duke University, USA Leandre Pourcelot, '00, Francois Rabelais University, France Jose Principe, '12, University of Florida, USA Basil Proimos, FE, University of Patras, Greece Buddy D. Ratner, '00, University of Washington, USA Gunter Rau, FF, RWTH Aachen University, Germany Robert S Reneman, '03, Maastricht University, Netherlands James B. Reswick, FF, FE, U.S. Department of Education, USA Nandor Richter, FF, FE, National Institute for Hospital and Medical Engineering, Hungary Laura Roa, '03, University of Seville, Spain Fernand A Roberge, FF, University of Montreal, Canada Colin Roberts, '02, King's College London, UK Peter Rolfe, FF, Oxford BioHorizons Ltd., UK, and Harbin Institute of Technology, China Annelise Rosenfalck, FF (Deceased), Aalborg University, Denmark Christian Roux, '03, Télécom Bretagne, France Masao Saito, FF, Tokyo Denki University, Japan Niilo Saranummi, '00, VTT Technical Research Center, Finland Shunske Sato, '03, Osaka University, Japan Klaus Schindhelm, 'FF, University of New South Wales, Australia Geert W. Schmid-Schoenbe, '05, University of California San Diego, USA Leif Sornmo, '12, Lund University, Sweden Jos AE Spaan, '09, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Kazuo Tanishita, '09, Keio University Nitish Thakor, '12, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, USA Jie Tian, '12, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Tatsuo Togawa, FF, Waseda University, Japan Shoogo Ueno, '06, University of Tokyo, Japan Max E. Valentinuzzi, FF, FE, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina Christopher L. 'Kit' Vaughan, '05, University of Cape Town, South Africa Karin Wardell, '12, Linkoping University, Sweden Peter Wells, FF, FE, Cardiff University, UK Andrzej Werynski, '03, Institute of Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering, Poland Nico Westerhof, FE, VU University, Netherlands Erich Wintermantel, '03, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Switzerland Jan Wojcicki, '12, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland Bernhard Wolf, '12, Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany Zi Bin Yang, '02, Peking Union Medical College, China Yuan-Ting Zhang, '06, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Jianyi Jay Zhang, 2023, University of Alabama at Birmingham

References