Matti Hämäläinen Inducted into Medical and Biological Engineering Elite


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The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has announced the induction of the MGH Martinos Center’s Matti Hämäläinen to its College of Fellows.

Election to the AIMBE College of Fellows is among the highest professional distinctions accorded to a medical and biological engineer. The College of Fellows is comprised of the top two percent of medical and biological engineers. College membership honors those who have made outstanding contributions to “engineering and medicine research, practice, or education” and to “the pioneering of new and developing fields of technology, making major advancements in traditional fields of medical and biological engineering, or developing/implementing innovative approaches to bioengineering education.”

Hämäläinen was nominated, reviewed, and elected by peers and members of the College of Fellows for “developing methods of MEG and integrate them with other non-invasive functional and anatomical imaging methods to study brain function.”

A formal induction ceremony was held on Monday during the AIMBE Annual Meeting at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, DC. Hämäläinen was inducted along with 156 colleagues who make up the AIMBE College of Fellows Class of 2019.

AIMBE Fellows are among the most distinguished medical and biological engineers including 2 Nobel Prize laureates, 17 Fellows having received the Presidential Medal of Science and/or Technology and Innovation, and 158 also inducted to the National Academy of Engineering, 72 inducted to the National Academy of Medicine and 31 inducted to the National Academy of Sciences.


In the photo above: Hämäläinen (left; with others inductees from Massachusetts General Hospital) was recognized for his pioneering work with MEG.