Stig Bengmark#
Obituary
, Ludvig Ekelund, CEO of SuperSynbiotics AB
Curriculum vitae#
Education: MD in 1956 and PhD in 1958 at the Medical Faculty, Lund University
Positions:
- Honorary Visiting Professor, UCL,London University 1999-
- Professor of Surgery, Lund University 1970-1994
- Academic Head (Chairman) Department of Surgery, Lund University 1970-92
- Surgeon-in-Chief (Chief of Surgical Services), Lund University Hospital 1970-1991
- Founder General Secretary World HPB Association 1986-1990
- President Elect and President World HPB Association 1990-1994
- President European Society of Surgical Research 1971-1972
- President Elect and President Surgical Infection Society, Europe 1987-1989
Memberships
- Member of Executive Council of several international medical associations incl. Europ. Soc Surg Res 1970-1974, CICD 1970-1975, Soc Int Chir 1972-1976
- Member or numerous international professional organisations
- Editor-in-Chief World Journal of HPB Surgery 1987-1993
- Member of editorial board of numerous medical journals
Honours and awards
- Invited to several honorary travelling professorships, incl. British Journal of Surgery and Australian Surgical Research Society.
- Invited member Academia Europaea – the second surgeon to ever have been invited as member.
- Honorary fellow of two Surgical Colleges: FRCS Austral (hon) 1990, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons Glasgow – FRPS Glasgow (hon) 1993
- Honorary/Corresponding member of several national and international associations: Brazil, Catalania (Spain), Colombia, Germany (DDR), Italy, Norway and Poland.
- Honorary member, International Hepatopancreatobiliary Society.
- Honorary member Surgical Research Society of Australia
- Honorary member European Society Surgical Research
- Honorary member International Hepato-pancreatico-biliary Society
- Many honorary lectureships around the world
Other activities
Stig Bengmark examined approximately 110 MDs for PhD of which 98 in Lund 1970-1994. Several collaborators/ex-fellows have been promoted to Professors, Associate Professors, Instructors and Postdoctoral Fellows in Sweden and around the world.
