Vladimir K. Zworykin Award
presented to
P. Åke Öberg
for
Outstanding Research Contributions in the Field of Medical and Biological Engineering
International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering
August 2003
Prof. Öberg received his M.Sc.E.E. degree in Electronics/Electro-technology
at Chalmers Institute of Technology, Göteborg, Sweden, in
1964, and the Dr. of Technology at Uppsala University in 1971. From
1963 to 1972 he was a research associate and Associate Professor at
the Department of Physiology and Medical Biophysics of the Uppsala
University. In 1972 he joined the Linköping University as a Full Professor
of Biomedical Engineering, Head of the Department of Biomedical
Engineering (1972-2002) and Director of the Department of
Clinical Engineering at the University Hospital (1972-2000).
Prof. Öberg's research interests include biomedical instrumentation,
transducers, physiological measurements, biooptics and clinical engineering.
He has published more than 450 papers in international
peer-reviewed journals and at conferences, he holds 30 Swedish and
international patents and has co-edited and co-authored 4 books on
bioengineering topics. He has served as member of the Editorial
Board of several scientific journals, was Editor of the journal of Cellular
Engineering and is currently Deputy Editor of the IFMBE journal
"Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing". Prof. Öberg is
the founding chairman (1979-1983) of the Clinical Engineering Division
of the IFMBE, a founding member and chairman (1978-1980 and
1996-1998) of the Swedish Society for Medical Engineering and Medical
Physics and a founding member and chairman of the International
Academy of Biomedical Engineering. He is a fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy
for Engineering Sciences (1980), the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (1987), an honorary
member of the Finnish Society for Medical Engineering and Medical
Physics (1988), an honorary fellow of the Hungarian Academy of Engineering
Sciences (1993) and an Honorary Life Member of the IFMBE
(2000). He currently is a member-at-large of the IEEE/EMBS Administrative
Council.
Prof. Öberg has been the recipient of several prestigious scientific prizes
and awards. In 1977 he received the Erna Ebeling Prize of the Swedish Society
of Medical Science "for scientific contributions within physiology and
biomedical engineering", and in 1981 he was awarded the Fernström Prize
of the University of Lund (Sweden) "for outstanding scientific contributions
in the field of biomedical engineering". 1982-1983 he taught at the University
of Washington in Seattle on a Walker-Ames lectureship award.
Ph.D,
Prof. of Biomedical Engineering
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Linköping University
University Hospital
Linköping S-581085
Sweden.
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