Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine

Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine
Formation1997 (1943)
TypeLearned society
HeadquartersFairmount House, 230 Tadcaster Road, York, YO24 1ES, England
Location
  • United Kingdom
Coordinates53°56′54″N 1°06′03″W / 53.9483429°N 1.1008885°W / 53.9483429; -1.1008885
Membership
4,700
Official language
English
President
Dr Anna Barnes
Key people
Philip Morgan
Staff
22
Websitewww.ipem.ac.uk

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.[1] 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 and professional aspects of the Institute's work, respectively. Beneath the councils is a substructure of committees, groups and panels of members, which undertake the work of the Institute.

The Institute is licensed by the Engineering Council to register Chartered Engineers, Incorporated Engineers and Engineering Technologists and by the Science Council to register Chartered Scientists,[2] Registered Scientists and Registered Science Technicians.[2]

The aim of the Institute and its members, set out in its charitable objects and articles of association, is to promote for the public benefit the advancement of physics and engineering applied to medicine and biology, and to advance public education in the field.[3]

  1. ^ Jennings, Allan (December 2006). "Introduction". Scope. 15 (Heritage Supplement): 2–5.
  2. ^ a b "Search the Professional Registers". The Science Council.
  3. ^ IPEM (2013). "2012 A Review of the Year" (PDF). Retrieved 16 September 2013.