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.[1][2] 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,[3] 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