Honorary doctors are appointed annual by the Faculty Board after nominations by faculty members. They are installed at Umeå University's annual celebration ceremony in the autumn.
2022
Sofia Åhman, training expert, Umeå
Kristie L. Ebi, professor, University of Washington, USA
Paul Zimmet, professor, Monash University, Australien
2020
Alim-Louis Benabid, professor emeritus, Université Grenoble Alpes
2019
Roger Strasser, professor, Northern Ontario School of Medicine, Kanada
Carmen Vives-Cases, professor, University of Alicante, Spanien
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, World Health Organization (WHO)
Julia Goedecke, University of Cape Town
Emmanuelle Charpentier, Max Planck-institute, Berlin.
Paul Jenkins, Bassett Healthcare i New York.
Fredricka Gilje, senior professor of nursing, Montana State University, USA.
Simon Griffin, professor of general practice at the University of Cambridge.
Brian Walker, professor at the University of Edinburgh.
Dawn Skelton, professor at Glasgow Caledonian University, Scotland.
Börje Hörnlund, f.d. county council commissioner, member of parliament, government minister and county governor
Susan Phillips, professor of general practice at Queens University in Ontario.
Jan Håkansson, general practitioner at Krokom's health clinic in Jämtland.
Iain W. Mattaj, Director General för EMBL, European Molecular Biology
Laboratory.
Professor Ellen Annandale
Professor Rodney Rothstein
Dr Stuart Spencer
Professor Roland Benz
Professor Anthony McMichael
Dr Denis Mukwege
UN representative Margot Wallström
Professor Peter Burgers
Professor em. Gunnar Borg
Chairperson Eva Nilsson Bågenholm
Professor John Hardy, London, UK
Associate Professor Anne Tanner, Boston, USA
Professor Thomas A. Kunkel, NIEHS, USA
Dental technician Rudolf Lindberg, Umeå
Editor-in-chief Richard Horton, The Lancet, UK
Medical officer of health Nils Bäckman, Umeå/Stockholm
Dr Bernard Swynghedauw, Paris
Professor Christopher Dobson, Cambridge, UK
Journalist Sverker Olofsson, Vännäsby
Professor Douglas E. Berg, St. Louis, USA
Professor Curt Furberg, Winston-Salem, USA
Business leader and entrepreneur Krister Olsson, Umeå
Professor Willliam B. Isaacs, Baltimore
Professor Roger Kornberg, Stanford (Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2006)
Professor Jörg Hacker, Würzburg
Former chief physician Karl-Anders Jacobsson, Umeå
Professor Thomas A. Pearson, Rochester
Former vice hospital director Maj Eriksson, Umeå
Head physician Anders Lindman, Luleå.
Professor Jonathan R. Seckl, Edinburgh
Dr. Giorgio Terenghi, London
Professor Alan G. Barbour, Irvine, USA
Professor Anne G. Fisher, Fort Collins, USA
Dental technician Antti Hulterström, Umeå
Nurse and instructor Gerd Johansson, Umeå
Professor Simon Watkins, Pittsburgh, USA
Associate professor Yukio Ando, Kumamoto, Japan
Professor Pekka Saikku, Uleåborg
Professor Andrey Zashiktin, Arkhangelsk
Head of division Anders Englund, Solna
Professor Jan-Pierre Mach, Lausanne
Former district doctor Christer Gunnarsson, Örnsköldsvik
Professor Ulrike Beisiegel, Hamburg
Associate professor Ruth Bonita, Auckland, New Zealand
District medical officer Gunnar Hjernestam, Storuman
Author Elsa Bolin, Stockholm
Professor Gillian S. Butler-Browne, Paris
Professor Nancy C. Martin, Louisville, USA
Professor Hans P. Meissner, Berlin
Professor Lennart Philipson, New York, USA
University physician Shamebo Desta, Addis Abeba, Etiopien (postume)
Former chief physician Lars Hambraeus, Stockholm
Professor Graham D. Lister, Utah, USA
Director Arne Yttergren, Umeå
Chief physician Yngve Løyning, Oslo
Chief physician Tord Ångström, Umeå
Professor Harald zur Hausen, Heidelberg (Nobel Prize in physiology/medicine 2008)
District doctor Ingemar Hermansson, Vilhelmina
Dr Robert O. Scow, Bethesda, USA
Professor Hans Eppenberger, Zurich
Professor Bertil Åberg, Stockholm
PhD Göran Blomqvist, Umeå
Professor Stanley Falkow, Stanford, USA
Professor Theodore Rasmusen, Montreal, Canada
Professor Stefano Schiaffino, Padova
Professor Aaron J.V. Hsueh, La Jolla, USA
Engineer Allan Lindkvist, Umeå
Professor Thomas W. Clarkson, New York, USA
Professor Norman Sartorius, Genève
Professor Hans G. Boman, Stockholm
Professor Norbert Freinkel, Chicago, USA
Professor Ingmar Bergström, Östersund
Chief physician Folke Eriksson, Lycksele
Civil engineer Kerstin Sirvell, Stockholm
Professor Takashi Yonetai, Pennsylvania, USA
Professor Robert Cloninger, St Louis, USA
Professor Willam H. Fishman, La Jolla, USA
Former city veterinarian Torsten Modig, Umeå
Head of division Sven Alsén, Stockholm
Professor Werner Köhler, Jena
Professor Michel Portmann, Bordeaux
Professor Dargut Kemali, Naples
Chief physician Gunnar Holmgren, Boden
Bureau director Ivonny Lindqvist, Stockholm
Professor John H. Weissburger, New York, USA
Former member of parliament Nancy Eriksson, Stockholm
Professor David Howell, Miami, USA
Professor Newton E. Morton, Hawaii, USA
Director Josef Anér, Stockholm
Professor Richard Durbin, San Francisco, USA
Professor Gideon Gerhardsson, Stockholm
Professor Henrik Forsius, Uleåborg
Professor Donald Steiner, Chicago, USA
Professor Robert Ray, Chicago, USA
Former government minister Gösta Skoglund, Umeå
Assistant professor Hisashi Mihara, Kobe, Japan
Former county governor Ragnar Edenman, Uppsala
Former chief physician Brynolf Fromm, Umeå
Former county council director Karl G. Viklund, Luleå
Professor James P. Lund, Montreal, Canada
Dr John W. Stanford, Northbrook, USA
Professor Willam H. Bowen, Rochester, USA
Professor Gunnar Röila, Oslo
Dr Roger West, Seattle, USA
Professor Derek W. Jones, Nova Scotia, Canada
Professor Jens Jørgen Pindborg, Copenhagen
Professor Bernhard Guggenheim, Zurich
PhD William D. McDavid, San Antonio, USA
Dr Lawrence G. Raisz, Farmington, USA
Dr Sigurd Ramfjord, Ann Arbour, USA
Former head of dentistry Jöran Eklund, Luleå
Professor Kenneth M. Pruitt, Birmingham, USA
MD, dentist Sven Thuréus, Stockholm
Professor Per Ingvar Brånemark, Göteborg
Head of dentistry Peter Ollinen, Umeå
Professor Ivar Mjør, Oslo
Professor Tadashi Yanada, Sendai, Japan
Professor Gerd Eneqvist, Uppsala
Professor Yngve Zotterman, Stockholm
Professor Sidney B. Finn, Birmingham, USA
Chief of Bureau Sixten Fors, Stockholm
Professor Sven Bergman, Linköping
Professor Finn Brudewold, Boston, USA
Professor Poul O. Pedersen, Copenhagen
Professor Carl-Martin Fajers, Umeå
Professor Jens Waerhaug, Oslo
Professor Ulf von Euler-Chelpin, Stockholm
Chief dentist Birger Kjellgren, Stockholm
Professor emeritus Martin Odin, Göteborg
Professor Martin Rushton, London
Former government minister Gösta Skoglund, Umeå
Professor Eero Sakari Tammisalo, Helsingfors
Read more about the Annual Celebration.