The Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine (IPEM) is the United Kingdom's professional body and learned society for physicists, engineers, and technologists in medicine. It was founded in 1995 and changed its name from the Institution of Physics and Engineering in Medicine and Biology (IPEMB) in 1997. The Institute is governed by an elected Board of Trustees, which oversees the Science, Research and Innovation Council and the Professional and Standards Council; these councils have operational responsibility for the Institute's scientific and professional activities. A substructure of committees, groups, and member panels carries out the Institute's work. IPEM is licensed by the Engineering Council to register Chartered Engineers, Incorporated Engineers, and Engineering Technologists, and by the Science Council to register Chartered Scientists, Registered Scientists, and Registered Science Technicians. Its charitable objects and articles of association state that the Institute's aim is to promote, for the public benefit, the advancement of physics and engineering applied to medicine and biology and to advance public education in the field. History
The organization traces its origins to three societies: the Hospital Physicists Association (HPA), founded in 1943; the Hospital Physics Technicians Association (HPTA), founded in 1952; and the Biological Engineering Society (BES), founded in 1960. The HPA created its scientific arm, the Institute of Physical Sciences in Medicine (IPSM), in 1984. The trade union and scientific activities split in 1989: the scientific arm merged with the BES to form IPEMB, while the trade union (HPA) joined the Manufacturing, Science and Finance Trades Union (MSF). The Association of Medical Technologists (AMT), formerly HPTA, merged with IPEM in 2001.

Membership
There are several categories of membership:
- Fellowship (FIPEM): the most senior category, awarded only to Full Members (MIPEM) who have made an outstanding contribution to medical physics or engineering.
- Full Membership (MIPEM): for people seeking recognition as professional scientists, engineers, or technologists in the field of medical physics or engineering; includes the former Incorporated Membership.
- Associate Membership: for people working in the relevant area, including STP trainees. Associate Membership: Postgraduate students and apprentices in an appropriate field are eligible for free Associate Membership.

Professional Affiliate Membership: For professionals who apply physics and engineering to medicine but who are not clinical scientists or clinical/biomedical engineers (e.g., doctors, radiographers, nurses, vets, dentists).

Affiliate Membership: For anyone with an interest in medical physics and engineering. Full-time undergraduate students are eligible for free Affiliate Membership.

Honorary Fellowship: Awarded for outstanding contributions in the field of physics or engineering applied to medicine or related biological science.

Company Membership: Dual membership with the Institute of Physics allows a 25% discount on membership subscriptions payable to each organisation for those who are, or become, individual members of both organisations.

Equality, diversity and inclusion: The Institute is a signatory of the Engineering Diversity Concordat of the Royal Academy of Engineering and the Science Council Diversity Declaration and has its own Equality Policy.

Annual Conference and Woolmer Lecture: The Institute holds an annual conference on medical physics and engineering. During this conference the flagship lecture of the Institute, the Woolmer Lecture, is presented. The lecture is dedicated to Professor Ronald Woolmer, who was the first Director of the Research Department of Anaesthetics at the Royal College of Surgeons. Woolmer convened a meeting at the Royal College of Surgeons, London, to discuss the evolving field of engineering applied to medicine. It was agreed that the group should hold regular meetings, and as a result the Biological Engineering Society (BES) was formed, with Ronald Woolmer as the first President. Woolmer died two years after the formation of the BES, and it was agreed that a memorial lecture would be sponsored in recognition of his achievements. The following table includes a list of the lectures since 2002.

Publications: IPEM owns three international peer-reviewed journals: Physics in Medicine and Biology (PMB), Medical Engineering and Physics, and Physiological Measurement. PMB and Physiological Measurement are published in association with IOP Publishing, while Medical Engineering and Physics is published by Elsevier. The Institute also publishes SCOPE, the Institute's quarterly magazine which is free to members and non-members; a report series; educational and teaching material; and a comprehensive e-book programme jointly with IOP Publishing.

President of IPEM: The IPEM president serves for two years and takes office at the Annual Conference. The following table includes a list of all past presidents of IPEMB/IPEM. References

External links
- Official site of the IPEM: https://www.ipem.ac.uk
- E-SCOPE — Online archive of the IPEM magazine: https://www.ipem.ac.uk/ScientificJournalsPublications/SCOPE/E-SCOPE.aspx

Categories
- ECUK Licensed Members
- Educational institutions established in 1995
- Engineering societies based in the United Kingdom
- Medical physics organisations
- Organisations based in York
- 1995 establishments in the United Kingdom
- Scientific organisations established in 1995
- Medical and health organisations based in the United Kingdom