Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine [SEP] inception
Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine
The Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine (IPEM) is the United Kingdom's professional body and learned society for physicists, engineers and technologists within the field of medicine, founded in 1995, changing its name from the Institution of Physics and Engineering in Medicine and Biology (IPEMB) in 1997. The Institute is governed by an elected Board of Trustees reporting to which are the Science, Research and Innovation Council and the Professional and Standards Council. The councils have operational responsibility for scientific
of London in 1990, becoming Emeritus upon retirement.
He served as president of the Hospital Physicists' Association (now the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine) from 1976 to 1978, and as honorary editor of "Physics in Medicine and Biology" from 1979 to 1983. He was the founding President of the European Federation of Organizations for Medical Physics from 1980 to 1984, having proposed its establishment in 1978. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics (FInstP), and a Fellow of the Institute of