Biörn Ivemark
Swedish pediatrician and pthologist
Intro | Swedish pediatrician and pthologist | |
Places | Sweden | |
was | Physician | |
Work field | Healthcare | |
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Birth | 1 January 1925, Karlstad, Karlstad Municipality, Värmland County, Sweden | |
Death | 8 May 2005Carcassonne, canton of Carcassonne-Est, arrondissement of Carcassonne, Aude (aged 80 years) |
Biörn Ivemark (1925 in Karlstad – May 8, 2005 in Carcassonne) was a Swedish pediatrician and pathologist. He is credited with characterizing asplenia with cardiovascular anomalies, also sometimes known as "Ivemark syndrome".
Ivemark graduated from Karolinska Institutet (with a med.lic. degree) in 1951 and received his research doctorate in 1955.