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Honorary Doctors at Sahlgrenska Academy

The Sahlgrenska Academy appoints one or more people as honorary doctors every year. In order to be appointed, the person must have been of great importance for the research or education of the faculty, or in some other way contributed to knowledge formation within the faculty's area of activity.

From 1953 until today - Honorary Doctors in alphabetical order

AAS, Kjell, MDhc 1991

AKESON, Wayne H., MDhc 1995

ALAUPOVIC, Petar, MDhc 1999

AMSTERDAM, Morton, ODhc 1988

ANGMAR-MÅNSSON, Birgit, ODhc 2004

ANGERVALL, Lennart, ODhc 1992

ARENDS, Joop, ODhc 1995

 

BACKMAN, Gunilla, MDhc 2019

BAUM, Michael, MDhc 1986

BECKER, William, ODhc 1996

BECKMAN, Vanna, MDhc 2011

BENNER, Sven, MDhc 1958

BENNET, Carl, MDhc 2019

BERGSTRÖM, Kerstin, MDhc 1996

BIENENSTOCK, John, MDhc 1998

BIRKMAYER, Walther, MDhc 1986

BJÖRNBERG, Joen, MDhc 1954

BLANC, Paul, MDhc 2016

BOWEN, William H., ODhc 1980

BRILL, Niels, ODhc 1975

BRENNAN, Murray, MDhc 1991

BRÅNEMARK, Per-Ingvar, ODhc 1991

BUTLER, Robert N., MDhc 1981

 

CAMPBELL, Jacquelyn C., FDhc 2002

CAMPUS, Guglielmo, ODhc 2023

CARLSSON, Sven G, ODhc 2009

CASTLEMAN, Benjamin, MDhc 1966

CLINTON, Hillary Rodham, MDhc

CONVERSE, John Marquis, MDhc 1980

COSSLETT, Vernon Ellis, MDhc 1974

CRAVIOTO, Joaquín, MDhc 1970

CROSS, Helen, MDhc 2014

CUSHMAN, Samuel W., MDhc 1992

 

DAHLIN, Bengt, MDhc 2000

DAHLIN, David, MDhc 1983

DAWES, Geoffrey S., MDhc 1978

DiBONA, Gerald F., MDhc 1993

DONATH, Karl, MDhc 1994

EK, Leif, ODhc 1996

EKBERG, Jan, MDhc 1997

ENBY, Gunnel, MDhc 2001

ENZINGER, Franz M., MDhc 1977

EPKER, Bruce N., ODhc 1992

ERICSSON, Eric, MDhc 1966

ERIKSSON, Ingegerd, MDhc 2000

ERLANDER, Tage, MDhc 1981

FALSEN, Enevold, MDhc 2002

FARKAS-BARGETON, Edith, MDhc 1982

FEJERSKOV, Ole, ODhc 1994

FISCHER, Harry, MDhc 1991

FOLKMAN, Judah, MDhc 2000

FONN, Sharon, MDhc 2015

FRANKS, Arnold S. T., ODhc 1983

FREEMAN, Michael A. R., MDhc 1992

FRESCO, Jacques R., MDhc 1979

FRICK, Matti Henrik, MDhc 1995

 

GABBIANI, Giulio, MDhc 1990

GABINUS, Olof, MDhc 1974

GALAMBOS, Robert, MDhc 1973

GALANTHAI FEKETE, Laszlo, MDhc 2007

GALE, Elliot, ODhc 1982

GELBER, Richard, MDhc 1997

GHONEIM, Mohamed Ahmed, MDhc 1988

GIBBONS, Ronald J., ODhc 1977

GOLDHIRSCH, Aron, MDhc 1993

GOLIGHER, John Cedric, MDhc 1976

GORDON, Jeffrey I, MDhc 2011

GRABER, Thomas M., ODhc 1989

GRANÉRUS, Ragnar, ODhc 1985

GREEN, Howard, MDhc 1989

GRIFFIN, Beverly E., MDhc 1988

GYLLENHAMMAR, Pehr G, MDhc 1981

GÖRANSSON, Paul, ODhc 1985

 

HAGBERG, Gudrun, MDhc 1989

HAGEDORN, Hans Christian, MDhc 1954

HALONEN, Pekka E., MDhc 1984

HANEFELD, Folker, MDhc 1985

HANSSON, Hild, MDhc 1960

HEDLIN, John, ODhc 1973

HEDMAN, Håkan, MDhc 2011

HEIJBEL, Carl-Axel, MDhc 1979

HERNBORG, Anders, MDhc 2005

HILL Martha N., MDhc 2005

HIRSCHOWITZ, Basil I., MDhc 2004

H.M. DROTTNING SILVIA, MDhc 1999

HOLMSTRUP, Palle, ODhc 2005

HORTON, Richard, MDhc 2013

HOWELL, Stephen B., MDhc 1992

HULTIN, Henric, MDhc 2002

HÅKANSSON, Bo, MDhc 2020

INGELMARK, Bo Eric, ODhc 1970

INGELMAN, Björn, MDhc 1964

 

JACOBSON, Malte, MDhc 1953

JALIL, Fehmida, MDhc 1993

JOHANSON, Bengt, ODhc 1995

JOHANSSON, Gösta, ODhc 1985

JOHANSSON, Leif, MDhc 2007

JULIAN, Desmond J., MDhc 1987

JULIUS, Stevo, MDhc 1979

 

KALLÓS, Paul, MDhc 1983

KANIS, John A, MDhc 2009

KANNEL, William B., MDhc 1985

KASS, Edward H., MDhc 1989

KASTMAN, Ingeborg, MDhc 1968

KELLAWAY, Peter, MDhc 1977

KIKUCHI, Shinichi, MDhc 2003

KLÜFT, Carolina, MDhc 2021,

KNISELY, Melvin H., MDhc 1970

KNUTSON, Erik, MDhc 1953

KOSTYO, Jack L., MDhc 1978

KRESHOVER, Seymour J., ODhc 1973

KUNC, Zdenék, MDhc 1970

 

LANDERGREN, Sten, MDhc 1973

LANG, Niklaus P., ODhc 1997

LAPORTE, Yves, MDhc 1986

LEHMAN, I. Robert, MDhc 1987

LINDAHL, Tomas,  MDhc 1991

LINDBERG, Sture, MDhc 2002

LINDNER, Hans, MDhc 1981

LINDSTRÖM, Inga-Britt, MDhc 2009

LOESCHE, Walter J., ODhc 1988

LUNDBERG, IngaBritt, MDhc 1995

LØE, Harald A., ODhc 1973

LÖFGREN, Åke, ODhc 1974

LÖFMAN, Carl, MDhc 1998

MAHLEY, Robert W., MDhc 1995

MANDEL, Irwin D., ODhc 1984

MANNHEIMER, Carin, MDhc 2011

MARK, Joachim, MDhc 2001

MARK, Kurt, MDhc 2000

MAY, Philip R. A., MDhc 1986

MESTECKY, Jiri F., MDhc 1990

MILLER, Josef M., MDhc 1987

MILLER, Marilyn, MDhc 1998

MIRSKY, Alfred Ezra, MDhc 1954

MJÖR, Ivar A., ODhc 2001

MODLIN, Irvin M., MDhc 1991

MOHS, Edgar, MDhc 1988

MONRAD-KROHN, Georg Herman, MDhc 1954

MOORE, Francis D., MDhc 1975

MOURIDSEN, Henning, MDhc 1990

MUKWEGE, Denis, FDhc 2019

 

NICOLAYSEN, Ragnar, MDhc 1962

NIELSEN, Jens, Mdhc 2022

NILSSON, Jan S., Mdhc 2006

NORBERG, Astrid, FDhc 2003

NORDHOLM, Lena, MDhc 2007

NORDQVIST, Peter, FDhc 2014

NYGAARD-ØSTBYE, Birger, ODhc 1975

 

OKAMOTO, Kozo, MDhc 1980

OLOW, Ingemar, MDhc 1976

OLSSON, Gunnnar, MDhc 2004

OLSSON ERIKSSON, Madeleine, MDhc 2017

OMNELL, Karl-Åke H., ODhc 1992

 

PENROSE, Lionel Sharples, MDhc 1966

PERCY, Alan K., MDhc 2002

PERSSON, Conny, MDhc 2008

PETROS-BARVAZIAN, Angèle, MDhc 1983

PFEFFER, Marc, MDhc 2014

PINDBORG, Jens Jørgen, ODhc 1986

PORTER, Stephen, ODhc 2012

POUPA, Otakar, MDhc 1976

PRICE, Richard W, MDhc 2010

PULVERTAFT, Robert Guy, MDhc 1968

RABO, Erik, MDhc 1977

RAMFJORD, Sigurd P., ODhc 1979

RAGNHULT, Inger, MDhc 2003

RANSTRÖM, Stig, ODhc 1970

REGNÉR, Elis, MDhc 1962

REITAN, Kaare, ODhc 1974

RIORDAN, John R, MDhc 2010

ROBBINS, John B.,  MDhc 1976

ROGIERS, Xavier, MDhc 2001

ROWE, Jacob M., MDhc 2014

RUCH, Jean-Victor, ODhc 1990

RUDD, Pauline, MDhc 2014

 

SAARNE, Apollon, MDhc 1972

SACHS, George, MDhc 1996

SANDBERG, Ann-Sofie, MDhc 2013

SANZ, Mariano, MDhc 2015

SARNO, Martha T., MDhc 1982

SCHMITT, Francis, MDhc 1964

SCHWARTZ, Stephen M., MDhc 1989

SCHRIBNER, Belding H., MDhc 1980

SEIDEN, Lewis S., MDhc 1999

SHAW, William C., ODhc 2000

SIMPSON, George M., MDhc 1994

SJÖSTRAND, Sven Erik, MDhc 1996

SKALAK, Richard, MDhc 1990

SKINNER, Donald G., MDhc 1993

SLACK, Geoffrey, ODhc 1974

SMITH, George F., MDhc 1974

SOCRANSKY, Sigmund S., ODhc 1991

STAHLMAN, Mildred, MDhc 1973

STEINBERG, Daniel, MDhc 1991

STENHAGEN, Stina, MDhc 1960

STRANDHEDE, Sven-Olov, MDhc 2007

STRÖM, Folke, MDhc 1962

STUPP, Samuel I., MDhc 2013

STÄLLDAL ERIKSSON, Ewa, FDhc 2003

von SYDOW, Helen, MDhc 2017

von SYDOW, Oscar, MDhc 2017

SÖDERBERG, Folke, MDhc 1960

 

TAI, Yao, MDhc 1997

TAMMISALO, Erkki, ODhc 1993

TANZER, Jason M., ODhc 2003

TASKINEN, Marja-Riitta, MDhc 1997

TENNANT, Alan, MDhc 2012

THALÉN, Erik, MDhc 1978

THESLEFF, Irma, ODhc 1997

TOFFANO, Gino, MDhc 1988

TOPELIUS, Georg, MDhc 1953

TORESKOG, Sverker, ODhc 2000

TRESCHOW, Michael, MDhc 2022

TRUETA, Joseph, MDhc 1964

TZAKIS, Andreas, MDhc 2011

VAN HOUTE, Johannes, ODhc 1999

WALLMAN, Henry, MDhc 1968

WEBBER, Richard L., ODhc 2001

WEIBULL, Curt, MDhc 1953

WICKHAM, John E.A., MDhc 1994

WILLIAM-OLSSON Margareta, MDhc 2003

WOLF, Stewart George, MDhc 1968

WOLFF, Joachim Rudolf, MDhc 1978

WOLLMAN, Seymour H., MDhc 1982

 

YERXA, Elizabeth J., FDhc 2002

YOUNG, Stephen G., MDhc 2008

YUSUF, Salim, MDhc

 

ZANDER, Helmut A., ODhc 1978

ZARB, George A., ODhc 1987

 

ÅKERMAN, Alf, MDhc 1991

ÅSTRÖM, Håkan, MDhc 2003

ÖBERG, Lars (1912-1992), MDhc 1962

ÖSTHOLM, Ivan (1918-2010), MDhc 1972

Honorary Doctors of Medicine, Dentistry and Philosophy

The first honorary doctor of medicine (MDhc) was appointed in 1953 at the then newly formed Faculty of Medicine at the University of Gothenburg. After the establishment of the Faculty of Dentistry in 1970, honorary doctors of Dentistry (ODhc) have been appointed. Since the Institute of Health and Care Sciences became part of the Sahlgrenska Academy in 2002, honorary doctors of philosophy (FDhc) are appointed at the faculty.