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
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.